PALESTINE: Camp center named after Iraqi martyr-bomber

Palestinians in Jenin have decided to name the center of the Jenin refugee camp after the Iraqi martyr-bomber who on Friday blew up himself at a US occupation checkpoint near Basra, killing four US Marines.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: US warplanes bombard close to Kirkuk

Qatar's Al Jazeera satellite news channel in an urgent report said US planes dropped bombs Tuesday on and near the Iraqi city Kirkuk, north Iraq.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: Iraq authorities treat reporters better than US troops do

The organization Reporters Sans Frontiers (Reporters Without Borders - ed) expressed anxiety over humiliating treatment by US and British troops of reporters covering the war in Iraq.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: Russia urges US to safeguard art treasures

Calls mounted in Russia Tuesday for the United States to show utmost care in protecting cultural sites and relics in Iraq as it intensifies the military campaign there.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: Minister says US attacked buses ferrying human shields

Iraqi Information Minster Mohammad Saeed Sahaf charged US political leaders of lying to their teeth and said it was possible the coalition would resort to the use of weapons of mass destruction.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: Federation of Arab Journalists calls for end to war

The Federation of Arab Journalists (FAJ) issued an open letter yesterday addressed to the United Nations and other international organizations, condemning what they described as - an unprecedented and unwarranted aggressive war" on Iraq by the United States, United Kingdom and their allies.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: Propaganda war a losing affair for alliance, says UAE paper

It seems that the Western allied forces are losing the propaganda war as far as war on Iraq is concerned, a United Arab Emirates (UAE) English daily said.

EGYPT: War in Iraq to give birth to 100 new Nin Ladens, says Mubarak

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said today the war in Iraq will give birth to hundred new Bin Ladens pushing even more Moslems to anti-Western extremism.

ISRAEL: Workers strike to protest government austerity plan

Public sector workers in Israel launched an open-ended strike Monday to protest an economic austerity plan that would lower their salaries and could cut jobs.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: British ministers accused of ‘undermining’ BBC war coverage

The International Press Institute (IPI) said on Monday it condemns attempts by British ministers to - undermine" the Iraq war TV coverage of the public broadcasting corporation BBC.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: Two children among civilian casualties of raids on Baghdad

Two children were among those killed in the US-British missile raids on south eastern Baghdad on Monday, Al Jazeera satellite channel reported.

LEBANON: Volunteers leave to fight ‘jihad’ in Iraq

About 250 volunteers from Baalbeck, near the Syrian border, left Monday to fight in Iraq against coalition forces, said Lebanese security sources in the area.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: Two British soldiers killed near Basra

The British Defense Ministry has confirmed the killing of two British soldiers in military operations near the Iraqi city of Basra.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: US pilot injured by Iraqi fire

A pilot of US Apache helicopter gunship was injured when the Iraqi forces shot at him during operations now raging on in northern An-Najaf, said the military spokesman of the US Command.

MIDDLE EAST: Israeli lookout post comes under Palestinian fire

Two Palestinians fell martyr Sunday night during armed confrontations with Israeli soldiers at the village of Beit Hanoon on the northeast borders between Gaza Strip and Israel.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: Baghdad under heavy raids

The Iraqi capital, Baghdad has come under heavy raids from US-British coalition forces this afternoon.

SOMALIA: Peace talks renewed in Mogadishu

The interim government of Somalia and various faction leaders met today for the first time face-to-face in the Daynilleh district of Mogadishu to revive peace talks for Somalia and end the violence in its capital.

MIDDLE EAST: Palestine calls on quartet to quickly implement oroadmap"

Statements by US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair on the so-called - roadmap" for peace in the Middle East were merely ôpain-relieving", Palestinian cabinet minister Saeb Erekat said Saturday.

AFGHANISTAN: Two US soldiers killed

Two United States soldiers died Saturday and a third was injured when their military unit in Afghanistan was attacked, the US central command reported.

LEBANON: Bank armed man says Iraq, Palestine were motives

A Lebanese man who said he was carrying explosives surrendered to police in Beirut today after entering a British bank and taking hostages in what was described as a protest against the war in Iraq.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: Air raid sirens briefly sound over Kuwait City

Air raid sirens sounded over Kuwait City on Saturday evening, followed within five minutes by the all-clear. (QNA)