Taliban militants attacked a U.S. coalition base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday with an explosives-laden truck that blew up outside the gates, sparking a two-hour gunbattle and killing two American troops, officials said.
U.S. forces called in airstrikes to end the clash, killing more than 30 insurgents in Zerok district of Paktika province, said Hamidullah Zawak, [...]
July 4, 2009
2 US troops die in attack on base in Afghanistan…
July 4, 2009
Incoming IAEA chief: No evidence Iran seeking nuclear weapons…
The incoming head of the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog said on Friday he did not see any hard evidence that Iran was trying to gain the ability to develop nuclear weapons.
“I don’t see any evidence in IAEA official documents about this,” Japan’s Yukiya Amano told Reuters in his first direct comment on Iran’s nuclear program [...]
July 4, 2009
Gaza Aid Britons In ‘Atrocious’ Israel Cell…
British nationals have told Sky News they are being held in “atrocious conditions” in an Israeli prison after their boat was seized as they tried to take aid in to the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli navy boarded the Sprit of Humanity boat roughly 18 nautical miles from the Palestinian territory and arrested all 21 people on [...]
