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TEHRAN (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of government supporters rallied across Iran on Wednesday, swearing allegiance to the clerical establishment and accusing opposition leaders of causing unrest in the Islamic state. EDITORS’ NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to film or take pictures in Tehran. Hundreds of [...]
The British hostage Peter Moore was dramatically set free yesterday after the United States handed over an Iraqi insurgent suspected of planning the deaths of five American servicemen. Mr Moore, an IT consultant, was freed by the League of the Righteous, or Asaib al-Haq (AAH) – an extremist Shia group allied to Iran – after [...]
SUICIDE BOMBINGS in Ramadi’s fortified Green Zone have killed 23 people and wounded more than 100. One of those critically injured was the governor of Anbar, Iraq’s largest province. Most of the dead and wounded were police officers. The first bomber blew up his vehicle yesterday at a checkpoint near the provincial administration’s office buildings, [...]
The US was aware that ?a Nigerian? in Yemen was being prepared for a terrorist attack – weeks before an attempted bombing on a US plane. ABC News and the New York Times say there was intelligence to this effect, but its source is unclear. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab flew from Lagos to Amsterdam before changing [...]