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Thousands of US-led troops are conducting a campaign of raids on towns and villages south of Baghdad, the US military said on Wednesday. Unlike this month's storming of Falluja, west of the capital, there has been relatively little combat since the offensive began on Tuesday, but rather a series of raids on resistance strongholds....

Gunmen in the northern city of Kirkuk attacked Iraqi National Guard forces, killing one soldier and a civilian in the drive-by shooting, the US military said Wednesday. The attackers fired from their car on Iraqi forces helping a civilian with his vehicle, the military said in a statement, cited by The AP. Another Iraqi guardsman suffered injuries in the incident....

ust how evil can this occupation get? When former Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) administrator L. Paul Bremer III left Baghdad after the so-called "transfer of sovereignty" in June 2004, he left behind the 100 orders he enacted as chief of the occupation authority in Iraq. Among them is Order 81 on "Patent, Industrial Design, Undisclosed Information, Integrated Circuits and Plant Variety."...

"It's a little girl. She's running defensively eastwards, a girl of about 10. She's behind the embankment, scared to death." ... Israeli soldiers continued firing at a Palestinian girl killed in Gaza last month well after she had been identified as a frightened child...the family's Israeli lawyer believes - and Palestinian witnesses said last month - that she was wounded but alive when the commander fired his first two shots, he has not been charged with manslaughter, apparently...

MPs will call for Tony Blair to be impeached for "gross misconduct" over the Iraq war on Wednesday....

Allegations of widespread abuse by US forces in Fallujah, including the killing of unarmed civilians and the targeting of a hospital in an attack, have been made by people who have escaped from the city....

The hypocrisy in this country has finally reached astounding levels. Vote fraud in the Ukraine is the top news of the day. It turns out that the exit polls in the country which showed the challenger Mr Yushchenko leading 54 to 43 percent were completely overturned by the actual results of the election which gave the current prime minister, Mr Yanukovich, the win with 49.42 percent to 46.69 percent. This, of course, has raised the suspicion of vote fraud to everyone including the United States...

Dozens of soldiers rammed the white gates of a well-to-do home in central Mosul early today, detaining three Iraqi men, only to discover their target was a house with black gates. "Four houses down," said the elderly home-owner patiently, his hands bound behind his back by yellow plastic cuffs. "You've got the wrong people," he told the officer leading the operation in good English, his wife, daughter and two pyjama-clad grandchildren cowering alongside him, trying t...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) A top aide to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr accused the Iraqi government Tuesday of violating terms of the August peace that ended fighting in Najaf and of conspiring with other Shiite parties to suppress the firebrand's movement....

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An Iraqi journalist who stayed in Fallujah to report on the battle for his hometown says he and hundreds of other civilians who eventually turned themselves in to escape the violence suffered tough, sometimes humiliating, treatment from American and Iraqi guards....