AP - Thousands of people demonstrated outside EU headquarters Saturday to demand protection for Christians in Iraq, saying they were increasingly being targeted in attacks.
Reuters - Many U.S. military analysts used as commentators on Iraq by television networks have been groomed by the Pentagon, leaving some feeling they were manipulated to report favorably on the Bush administration, The New York Times said in Sunday editions.
AFP - In a scathing analysis, a former senior Pentagon official has called the war in Iraq "a major debacle" that created an incubator for terrorism and emboldened Iran.
AP - Defying U.S. and Israeli warnings, former President Carter met again on Saturday with the exiled leader of the militant Hamas group and his deputy.
AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew Sunday to the Gulf urging Arabs to seize what she sees as an opening for them to grab a stake in neighboring Iraq and blunt Iran's influence there.
Reuters - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
called on Arab nations on Sunday to offer diplomatic ties and
debt relief to Iraq's government to reward its efforts on
improving security and political reconciliation.
AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Sunni Arab states to meet "their obligations" to neighboring Shiite-led Iraq now that it is cracking down on Shiite militias and improving security.
AP - A man claiming to be the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq vowed in an audiotape released Saturday to launch a monthlong offensive against U.S. troops.
Reuters - Israeli air strikes killed five Hamas
gunmen in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, hours after
militants from the Islamist group drove bomb-laden vehicles
into an Israeli border crossing.
AP - Defying U.S. and Israeli warnings, former President Carter met again on Saturday with the exiled leader of the militant Hamas group and his deputy.