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7 Turkish soldiers killed by guerrillas
Sep 2 2006 11:03PM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Separatist Kurdish guerrillas killed seven Turkish soldiers and wounded two in stepped-up attacks against the military in southeastern Turkey, local authorities said Saturday.
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American appears in new al-Qaida tape
Sep 2 2006 10:47PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - An American thought to be an al-Qaida activist appeared in a videotape with the terror group's deputy leader Saturday and called on his countrymen to convert to Islam and for U.S. soldiers to switch sides in the Iraq and Afghan wars.
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Sudanese leader pardons Slovenian envoy
Sep 2 2006 10:26PM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Sudan's president on Saturday ordered the release of an envoy of Slovenia's president who was convicted of espionage in the war-torn region of Darfur and sentenced to two years in prison.
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Hezbollah announces commander's death
Sep 2 2006 9:33PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Hezbollah announced Saturday the death of a military commander from wounds suffered in monthlong fighting with Israel, the highest-ranking guerrilla the group admits losing in the war.
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Annan questions Iran Holocaust exhibit
Sep 2 2006 8:58PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - U.N. Secretary of State Kofi Annan, visiting Iran Saturday, raised concerns with officials over an exhibition of cartoons about the Holocaust that opened in response to Muslim outrage over the Prophet Muhammad caricatures.
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Egypt confirms talks on Israeli soldier
Sep 2 2006 8:53PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says negotiations are ongoing to secure the release of an Israeli soldier captured by Palestinian militants, according to an interview published by a semiofficial daily newspaper Saturday.
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Iran insists on diplomacy with the West
Sep 2 2006 8:32PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran offered to help support the cease-fire in Lebanon in talks Saturday with U.N Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and insisted that diplomacy is the only way to resolve Tehran's nuclear dispute with the West.
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Lebanese official wants blockade broken
Sep 2 2006 6:32PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanon's prime minister called Israel's blockade of the country illegal on Saturday and the parliament speaker urged Arab nations to break the siege.
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Beefed-up peacekeeping force takes shape
Sep 2 2006 4:33PM (CT)
TYRE, Lebanon (AP) - The beefed-up peacekeeping force in Lebanon began to take shape Saturday as 1,000 Italian soldiers started moving in, the first large contingent of international troops dispatched to help safeguard a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.
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Lebanese clear away the rubble from war
Sep 2 2006 4:30PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Every day, a line of trucks as far as the eye can see carries rubble out of south Beirut. Front-loaders and bulldozers gouge away at vast mounds of concrete and twisted metal that were once homes.
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Unpaid Palestinian teachers go on strike
Sep 2 2006 3:32PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Thousands of unpaid teachers went on strike Saturday, shutting down schools across the Palestinian territories on the first day of school _ a backlash that is testing the beleaguered Hamas-led government's ability to survive.
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Iraqis take over Abu Ghraib prison
Sep 2 2006 3:29PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's government has formally taken over Abu Ghraib, site of an abuse scandal by U.S. soldiers, and all inmates have been transferred to another facility, officials said Saturday.
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Iraqi PM meets with influential cleric
Sep 2 2006 3:09PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric on Saturday warned the prime minister to quell violence or risk "other powers" filling the gap, while police found the tortured and blindfolded bodies of 13 Pakistani and Indian pilgrims and their Iraqi driver.
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Analysis: U.S. says Iran behind trouble
Sep 2 2006 2:33PM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Top U.S. officials have made strong charges in recent weeks that Iran is directly stirring up trouble in Iraq. But inside Iraq, it's hard to see any change and some American officials in Baghdad say privately the evidence is not that clear.
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Iraq women treasure map-shaped necklaces
Sep 2 2006 2:24PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Roba al-Asaly fingers the sliver of gold on her necklace and explains that it reminds her of a place "that's not there anymore."
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Annan pushes Iran to compromise on nukes
Sep 2 2006 12:33PM (CT)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan began meeting with Iranian leaders Saturday to press them to help cut off weapons shipments to Iran's Lebanese ally Hezbollah and to compromise in its nuclear confrontation with the West.
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Palestinian group to target non-Muslims
Sep 2 2006 10:57AM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Palestinian militants who held two Fox News journalists hostage for nearly two weeks threatened in a statement posted online Saturday to abduct non-Muslims visiting the Palestinian territories and kill them unless their demands were met.
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First Italian troops arriving in Lebanon
Sep 2 2006 10:50AM (CT)
TYRE, Lebanon (AP) - Italian soldiers poured into Lebanon on Saturday, part of the first large contingent of international troops dispatched to boost the U.N. force keeping the peace between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.
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Turks conflicted about U.N. in Lebanon
Sep 2 2006 4:03AM (CT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Some Turks see participating in the Lebanon peacekeeping force as a chance to reassert Turkish influence in the region, decades after their Ottoman Empire ruled across southeastern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
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Iraq military handover ceremony delayed
Sep 2 2006 3:47AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Authorities postponed a highly anticipated ceremony Saturday in which Iraq's Defense Ministry was to assume operational control of the country's armed forces from the U.S.-led coalition.
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Speaker deserves 2nd chance, Shiite says
Sep 2 2006 1:46AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's firebrand Sunni Arab parliament speaker will not be removed from his post, a legislator from the country's most powerful Shiite political bloc said Friday.
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