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latest news & developmentsUS death toll in Iraq reaches 4 000
The number of United States soldiers to die in Iraq has reached 4Â 000, the US military said on Monday, just days after the fifth anniversary of a war that President George Bush…
Rice pushes ‘roadmap’ as Turkish troops enter Iraq
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on a visit overshadowed by a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq, called on Iraqi leaders on Tuesday to urgently implement a…
Kurdish rebels free abducted Turkish soldiers
Eight Turkish soldiers, kidnapped last month in an ambush by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants, were released in northern Iraq, a PKK official said on Sunday. The release…
Turkey flexes military might amid Kurdish clashes
Helicopter gunships went into action against rebel Kurds in eastern Turkey on Monday while the government flexed its military muscle with massive national day parades and…
Turkey’s patience running out
President Abdullah Gul warned Kurdish rebels on Thursday that Turkey’s patience is running out after Turkish forces said they repelled a guerrilla attack near the Iraqi border.…
Bush agrees to limited troop cuts in Iraq
United States President George Bush on Thursday ordered gradual troop reductions in Iraq but defied calls for a dramatic change of course, telling war-weary Americans the US…
Bush appeal undercut by killing of Sunni ally
United States President George Bush on Thursday night called on Americans to support an ”enduring relationship” with Iraq, in a speech delivered hours after a key Sunni tribal…