AFP - Britain is planning to use money earmarked for weapons disposal and landmine removal in former conflict zones to service Tornado jets flying in Iraq, The Guardian reported on Monday.
Reuters - Iranian students, who spearheaded a
reform movement blunted by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's
election in 2005, doubt that voting for a new parliament on
Friday can promote real change.
AP - As of Sunday, March 9, 2008, at least 3,974 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,237 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
AFP - Dogs bark as a column of US soldiers crosses a field in pitch darkness guided by their night-vision goggles in search of Al-Qaeda militants north of the Iraqi capital.
AFP - A US-led coalition has just fired off a third volley in a 15-month diplomatic drive against Iran, but even Washington admits it has no silver bullet and it will unlikely be the last shot.
AP - The flow of blood may be ebbing, but the flood of money into the Iraq war is steadily rising, new analyses show. In 2008, its sixth year, the war will cost approximately $12 billion a month, triple the "burn" rate of its earliest years, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and co-author Linda J. Bilmes report in a new book.
AP - Israel announced plans Sunday to build hundreds of homes in the West Bank and disputed east Jerusalem, setting off another crisis in the embattled peace process ahead of the arrival of a key U.S. mediator.
AFP - Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni leaves on a three-day visit to the United States on Sunday amid efforts to advance faltering peace talks with the Palestinians.
AFP - A former Pentagon official who played a key role in planning the US-led war in Iraq has written a new book accusing former top diplomat Colin Powell, the CIA and other colleagues of botching the invasion and occupation of Iraq, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.
Reuters - Israel announced plans to build
hundreds of new homes in a Jewish settlement in the occupied
West Bank on Sunday in a move the Palestinians denounced as
another blow to U.S.-brokered peace talks.