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First up today, we are looking at the increased fighting between the Israelis and Palestinians. Representatives from other countries are trying to work out a ceasefire to stop the violence, but until that happens, millions of people from both sides a
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Over the past week, I have been monitoring the situation in the Middle East closely with the members of my national security team. Secretary Rice is actively engaged in diplomacy. And I've been in contact with leaders th
1. Insurgents attack several US bases and government offices with mortars before dispersing in the capital of western Iraq's Anbar province. 2. Congressman John Murtha says US troops will leave Iraq w
By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 24 November 2006 Angry Shi'ites Muslims launched reprisal attacks on a Sunni mosque, political headquarters and several Baghdad neighborhoods, a day after a series of blasts and mortars killed more than 200 Shi'ites.
The police chief in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, has been killed as fighting continues to wrack the city. At least seven others were killed in clashes between Islamist insurgents and pro-government forces in the south of the city. A Somali man car
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 29 September 2009 A U.N. fact-finding mission accuses both Israel and Hamas militants of committing war crimes during the three-week war in Gaza that began in late 2008. The report, which has just been submitted to the U.N. Hu
Both sides in Sri Lanka's civil war are brushing off a non-binding statement of the U.N. Security Council demanding they protect the lives of tens of thousands of civilians trapped by the fighting. Medical and humanitarian workers say shelling in th
U.N. Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kyung-wha Kang is calling for the international community to combat the culture of impunity that has fueled more than two decades of war in Somalia. Kang's comments followed an official two-day tour of t
Senegal has severed diplomatic relations with Iran, accusing it of supplying weapons to separatist rebels in the southern Casamance region where three Senegalese soldiers were killed in attacks over the weekend. The two countries' previously strong d
ISIS Takeover in Mosul Displaces Thousands 极端组织伊希斯取得摩苏尔的控制权 NORTHERN IRAQ The extremist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) seized control of the western half of Mosul, Iraq's second largest
Gaza Conflict Brings New Worries to Israeli Border Communities 加沙冲突为以色列边境社区带来新危机 KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ, SOUTHERN ISRAEL A temporary three-day cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian fighters in Gaza has brought a few da
'Peace' in Gaza is All Too Brief 加沙的和平太短暂了 GAZA CITY Cease-fires in embattled Gaza have been all too brief in recent days, shattered by a swift return to fighting between the Israeli military and Hamas militant fighters. Civilians a
Investigators Finally Reach MH17 Crash Site 调查人员终于赶到MH17失事地点 LONDON A team around 100 international investigators and police was able to visit Friday the crash site of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 in eastern Ukraine. The inspe
美国军方消除女性参军障碍 2015或成为女性参军年 As long as they qualify and meet the standards, women will now be able to contribute to our mission in more ways than before.They'll be allowed to drive tanks, fire mortars and lead in
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The fight to force ISIS from the Iraqi city of Mosul has resulted in more casualties than expected, both for combatants and civilians. That has led the Iraqi government and international aid groups to step up emergency care.
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: We're going to hear now about the two sides of life in the Iraqi city of Mosul. It has been three months since ISIS was forced out of the city. The fighting reduced one side, the west, to ruins. The eastern side of Mosul, tho
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 14 March 2007 Somalia's transitional government has reiterated its plans to hold a congress to unite striving Somali clans, asking the international community to support the process. Plans for the congress are being made as
Experts Predict Syria Fighting May Escalate 专家预测叙利亚战争可能升级 LONDON While the worlds diplomats work in New York to hammer out an agreement on the disposal of Syrias chemical weapons, and United Nations investigators head back i
By Deborah Block Irbil, Iraq 15 October 2007 Suspected Shi'ite militiamen fired mortars at two military bases and shot at a Polish helicopter south of Baghdad, prompting clashes in fighting that left as many as five Iraqi civilians, including two chi
The commission of inquiry on the 2014 Gaza conflict says it found substantial information and credible allegations from both sides of the conflict that war crimes had been committed. More than 2,100 Palestinians and over 70 Israelis were killed in th