AP - An Israeli human rights group on Thursday demanded a criminal investigation into the military's killing of four Palestinian militants earlier this month, citing witness accounts that the men were gunned down in a summary execution.
AFP - Colombia's FARC rebels may have intended to use low-grade uranium in a "dirty bomb" to bill themselves as international terrorists, the government said Thursday after announcing it found a stash of the radioactive material.
AFP - A jury was set to hear on Friday final arguments in the retrial of six alleged homegrown terrorists charged with plotting to blow up buildings with help from the Al-Qaeda terror network.
McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD? As gun battles raged in the southern port city of Basra, parts of Baghdad and neighboring provinces, Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki in effect declared war on Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr's Mahdi Army, saying he'd fight the militia "to the end" and never negotiate.
U.S. News & World Report - President Bush on Thursday put his positive spin on developments in Iraq, including the news of clashes between Iraqi security forces and Shiite militias in Basra. The fighting is being presented as evidence that the increase in security with the surge of U.S. troops has enabled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government to try to break the grip of these militias and criminal gangs on the strategically vital port city. ...
AP - The State Department has instructed all personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad not to leave reinforced structures due to incoming insurgent rocket fire that has killed two American government workers this week.
AP - Relatives of a U.S. security contractor held hostage in Iraq for more than a year said Thursday that they felt a mixture of sadness and relief when they learned his remains were found.
AP - Relatives of a U.S. security contractor held hostage in Iraq for more than a year said Thursday that they felt a mixture of sadness and relief when they learned his remains were found.
AP - Relatives of a U.S. security contractor held hostage in Iraq for more than a year said Thursday that they felt a mixture of sadness and relief when they learned his remains were found.
AFP - Dutch far-right MP Geert Wilders on Thursday made good his pledge to post a controversial film critical of Islam on the Internet, featuring violent imagery of terrorist attacks in New York and Madrid intertwined with Koranic texts.