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AP – 39 mins ago
BAGHDAD - The U.S. ambassador to Iraq outlined twin challenges Monday to the unsteady democracy's elections next month: assuring that voters and rival factions accept the result and then making sure the losers step aside quietly.
AP – 1 hr 54 mins ago
BAGHDAD - A female suicide bomber detonated her explosives inside a way station for Shiite pilgrims Monday, killing 54 people and rattling security officials who are struggling against a possible rise in violence before key elections next month.
AP – Mon Feb 1, 3:28 pm ET
October 2007: 170,000 at peak of troop buildup.
AP – Mon Feb 1, 2:30 pm ET
JERUSALEM - The Israeli military said Monday it has reprimanded two high-ranking officers for approving the firing of artillery shells toward a U.N. compound during the Gaza Strip war last year — the first admission of any high-level wrongdoing during the offensive.
AP – Mon Feb 1, 1:55 pm ET
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's judiciary chief said Monday he will not give in to political pressure to speed up the execution of opposition activists.
AP – Mon Feb 1, 1:54 pm ET
JERUSALEM - The Israeli army said Monday it has warned its top officers to be on guard when traveling abroad following the mysterious death of a Hamas commander in Dubai.
AP – Mon Feb 1, 1:03 pm ET
CAIRO - The leader of North Africa's al-Qaida branch offered training and weapons to Nigeria's Muslims to fight the Christians there following an outbreak of sectarian violence.
AP – Mon Feb 1, 12:51 pm ET
A look at the March 7 parliamentary elections in Iraq:
AP – Mon Feb 1, 12:51 pm ET
A look at some recent attacks by female suicide bombers in Iraq:
AP – Mon Feb 1, 12:27 pm ET
JERUSALEM - Abraham Sutzkever, a Yiddish poet and partisan fighter during World War II, has died in Tel Aviv. He was 96, his daughter Mira said.
AFP – Mon Feb 1, 3:39 pm ET
BAGHDAD (AFP) - A female suicide bomber blew herself up among a crowd of Shiite pilgrims on their way by foot to a shrine city in central Iraq on Monday, killing 41 people including women and children.
Reuters – 1 hr 4 mins ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. attempt to shoot down a ballistic missile mimicking an attack from Iran failed after a malfunction in a radar built by Raytheon Co, the Defense Department said.
AFP – Mon Feb 1, 10:39 am ET
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel's military has reprimanded two senior officers for the firing of shells, which contained white phosphorous, in a populated area near a UN compound during the Gaza war, the army said on Monday.
AFP – Mon Feb 1, 10:22 am ET
TEHRAN (AFP) - School bells rang out as trains and ships throughout Iran sounded their horns on Monday, marking the 1979 return from exile of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who triggered a revolution that spawned an Islamic state now mired in a political crisis.
Reuters – Mon Feb 1, 12:22 pm ET
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's top judge said on Monday he would not succumb to political pressure from hardliners to carry out more executions against anti-government protesters, saying any such decision would be based on the law.
