Libyan rebels are threatening to isolate the capital, Tripoli, as they capture key towns to the south and west of the city and work to cut off supply routes in their bid to push leader Moammar Gadhafi from power. The rebels say they control most of Zawiya, a strategic town 50 kilometers west of Mr. […]
Libyan Rebels Threaten to Isolate Tripoli
Posted August 16th, 2011 at 3:40 am (UTC-5)
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Israeli Airstrikes Wound 5 in Gaza Strip
Posted August 16th, 2011 at 1:25 am (UTC-5)
Israel has carried out several airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, which Palestinian medical sources say wounded at least five people. The Israeli military says it struck four targets Tuesday, including a group of militants who were trying to fire a rocket at Israel. The attack came after a rocket fired from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip […]
US: Gadhafi Fires First Scud Missile of Conflict
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 8:25 pm (UTC-5)
A U.S. military official says Libyan government forces have fired a scud missile for the first time in their conflict with anti-government rebels. The official, who asked not to be named, said the missile landed in the desert about 80 kilometers outside Brega. Libyan forces and the rebels have battled over the strategic oil port […]
Israel Approves 277 Apartment Units In West Bank
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 4:30 pm (UTC-5)
Israel has approved the construction of 277 new housing units in a Jewish settlement located deep in the occupied West Bank. Israel’s Defense Ministry said Monday that Defense Minister Ehud Barak approved the new housing in the Ariel settlement. It said Israel would reserve at least 100 of those units for Israelis evacuated from Gaza […]
Iraq Attacks Kill 63
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 3:35 pm (UTC-5)
Bombings and attacks hit 17 Iraqi cities Monday, killing at least 63 people and wounding hundreds of others. Iraqi officials say suicide bombings and other explosions struck targets from the northern city of Kirkuk, to the capital, Baghdad, to the southern city of Kut. Authorities say the worst violence was in Kut, where two explosions […]
Turkey Tells Syria to Stop Civilian Bloodshed
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 2:45 pm (UTC-5)
Turkey has warned neighboring Syria that its military operations against civilians “must end immediately and unconditionally.” Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said this “is our final word to the Syrian authorities.” He spoke to reporters in Ankara as the Syrian military was reported to be shelling residential areas in the port city of Latakia. It […]
Iraq Attacks Kill 60
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 2:10 pm (UTC-5)
Bombings and attacks hit more than a dozen Iraqi cities Monday, killing at least 60 people. Iraqi officials say suicide bombings and other explosions struck targets from the northern city of Kirkuk, to the capital, Baghdad, to the southern city of Kut. Authorities say the worst violence was in Kut, where two explosions killed at […]
Senior Libyan Official, Relatives Fly to Cairo in Apparent Defection
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 1:25 pm (UTC-5)
A senior Libyan Interior Ministry official has flown to the Egyptian capital with nine family members in what appears to be another defection from leader Moammar Gadhafi’s government. Nassr al-Mabrouk Abdullah and his relatives arrived in Cairo early Monday on a private jet from the Tunisian resort island of Djerba. Although Egyptian officials at first […]
Russian Senior Official in Tehran to Discuss Nuclear Talks
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 12:50 pm (UTC-5)
Iranian media say a senior Russian official is in Tehran to discuss restarting talks on Iran’s controversial nuclear program. State-run IRNA reports that Russia’s National Security Council Secretary, Nikolai Patrushev, was meeting with his Iranian counterpart, Saeed Jalili. He will also meet with other Iranian officials during his two-day visit. Russia is trying to revive […]
Syria Presses Crackdown in Latakia, Homs Area
Posted August 15th, 2011 at 11:25 am (UTC-5)
The Syrian military is pressing its crackdown against anti-government dissent in the port city of Latakia while troops are carrying out new raids near the central city of Homs. Residents of Latakia report tank fire in parts of the city on the third day of the assault, and witnesses say people are trying to flee, […]
