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Israel puts ground offensive on hold
Aug 9 2006 11:51PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel has put its massive new ground offensive into southern Lebanon on hold to give the U.N. Security Council more time to come to an agreement on a cease-fire, an Israeli Cabinet minister and senior officials said Thursday.
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U.N.'s Mideast diplomatic efforts falter
Aug 9 2006 10:08PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Diplomatic efforts to reach quick agreement on a U.N. resolution aimed at ending the escalating Israeli-Hezbollah conflict faltered Wednesday over differences between the United States and France on the timing of an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
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Marines: Carroll was held near Iraq base
Aug 9 2006 8:12PM (CT)
HABANIYAH, Iraq (AP) - U.S. Marines who cracked the Jill Carroll kidnapping case say the American journalist was held for a time in a home within sight of a sprawling U.S. military base in western Iraq.
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1,500 violent deaths reported in Iraq
Aug 9 2006 6:59PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - About 1,500 violent deaths were reported in the Baghdad area last month, a top health official said Wednesday, providing figures that showed a steady increase in killings since the beginning of the year.
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Fledgling Iraqi navy to buy new boats
Aug 9 2006 6:06PM (CT)
UMM QASR, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's fledgling navy plans to get 21 new boats over the next two years as it prepares to take over the security of offshore oil terminals, the main gateway for the country's petroleum exports, a senior naval official said Wednesday.
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Pat Robertson prays for Israeli victory
Aug 9 2006 6:05PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - U.S. televangelist Pat Robertson said he joined hands Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to pray for victory in Lebanon.
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Military says 15 Israeli soldiers killed
Aug 9 2006 4:33PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Fifteen Israeli soldiers were killed in a single day of fighting Wednesday, the military said, the highest one-day total in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict.
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3 U.S. soldiers killed in western Iraq
Aug 9 2006 4:09PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Three American soldiers were killed Wednesday in the Sunni insurgent area west of Baghdad, and Iraqi officials said about 1,500 people died violently last month in the capital _ many shot execution-style by sectarian death squads.
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Crash kills 5 Yemeni army officers
Aug 9 2006 3:55PM (CT)
SAN`A, Yemen (AP) - Five Yemeni army officers were killed when their military helicopter crashed during a heavy rainstorm, a Defense Ministry official said Wednesday.
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4 Iraqis arrested in Carroll kidnapping
Aug 9 2006 3:51PM (CT)
HABANIYAH, Iraq (AP) - U.S. Marines who arrested four Iraqi men now accused in the kidnapping of American journalist Jill Carroll say she was held for a time in a home within sight of a sprawling U.S. military base in western Iraq.
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On the road in Lebanon, and needing luck
Aug 9 2006 2:28PM (CT)
SIDON, Lebanon (AP) - On the roads of Lebanon, it's hard to know when to be afraid. Is it wise to drive through a long tunnel, a potential target for an Israeli airstrike? Or head down a deserted highway where the overpasses have been demolished by bombs? Is it dangerous to tail a truck that might be suspected of carrying Hezbollah weapons and attacked from the skies?
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Nasrallah urges Arabs to leave Haifa
Aug 9 2006 2:25PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday warned all Israeli Arabs to leave the port city of Haifa so the militant group could step up attacks without fear of shedding the blood of fellow Muslims.
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Tattoos go undercover with Iran's youth
Aug 9 2006 2:12PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - It's an undercover movement _ literally: Tattoos have become a fad among many young Iranian women who proudly display them in private but must keep them under wraps from authorities.
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Saudi monarch makes rare trip to Turkey
Aug 9 2006 1:59PM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - King Abdullah is in Turkey _ the first visit here by a Saudi monarch in four decades, a development many see as an example of Turkey shifting its foreign policy focus from the European Union toward the Middle East.
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Guard soldiers prepare the dead in Iraq
Aug 9 2006 1:29PM (CT)
CAMP ANACONDA, Iraq (AP) - In a small, quiet corner of this huge base, a soft-spoken group of National Guard soldiers sees to one of war's most gruesome tasks: preparing the bodies of American troops who have died in combat to return home.
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Israeli shakes up war's chain of command
Aug 9 2006 11:52AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel has appointed a plain-speaking combat veteran to command the war in Lebanon after a 30-year career mostly focused on fighting Hezbollah guerrillas.
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15 members of Lebanese family killed
Aug 9 2006 9:39AM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Ali Rmeity lies broken and bandaged on a hospital bed, wincing in pain. Three of his children and his parents are dead _ but he doesn't know all that yet. Doctors fear telling the 45-year-old now would be a bigger blow than he can sustain.
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Hezbollah has fired 3,333 rockets so far
Aug 9 2006 7:25AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Hezbollah guerrillas fired more 100 rockets at Israeli towns on Wednesday _ raising the total since the start of the conflict to 3,333 _ including several medium-range missiles that landed near the West Bank town of Jenin and south of the Israeli city of Afula, police said.
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Israel's Security Cabinet convenes
Aug 9 2006 4:09AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's Security Cabinet convened Wednesday for expected approval of a broader ground offensive in Lebanon, with some ministers arguing that the military must deal more blows to Hezbollah before a Mideast cease-fire is imposed.
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U.S. copter crashes in Iraq, 2 missing
Aug 9 2006 2:33AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A U.S. Army helicopter crashed in Iraq's western Anbar province, leaving two crew members missing and four injured, the U.S. military command said Wednesday.
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Israel orders vehicles off Lebanon roads
Aug 9 2006 2:12AM (CT)
TYRE, Lebanon (AP) - The warning fell from the sky on a plain piece of paper, written in Arabic and signed by the state of Israel: "Any vehicles, no matter what type, moving south of the Litani River will be bombed" on suspicion of carrying Hezbollah weapons.
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Envoy cites Tyre-Jerusalem Biblical ties
Aug 9 2006 2:11AM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - As the ancient Lebanese port city of Tyre faced another barrage of Israeli bombs, Israel's U.N. ambassador reminded Lebanon's top U.N. envoy that Jerusalem and Tyre have a biblical connection.
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New Israeli general oversees Lebanon
Aug 9 2006 1:37AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's military chief appointed his deputy to oversee Israel's battles in Lebanon, sidelining the current commander in an unusual shake-up as Israel is expected to intensify its military campaign.
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