ATHENS (AFP) - (AFP) - Coastguard officials intercepted a US vessel Friday after it tried to sail from port -- in defiance of a Greek ban -- to challenge Israel's naval blockade on Gaza, an activist on board said.
The Audacity of Hope set sail for Gaza without warning, leaving behind nine other ships in a pro-Palestinian international flotilla.
"The captain is speaking to the coast [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - Violence killed more Iraqis last month than at any time since September, figures showed on Friday after the US reported deaths that also made June the deadliest month for its troops in Iraq for three years.
The Baghdad government blames Al-Qaeda for most of the 271 deaths of its citizens last month, while the US military accuses Iranian-backed Shiite insurgen [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - Three US soldiers were killed in action in southern Iraq on Wednesday, the military said, making June the deadliest month for American soldiers here in three years.
"Three US service members were killed Wednesday in southern Iraq," the US military said in a statement on Thursday.
"We can confirm that the soldiers were killed in a hostile event," a military s [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - The United States reached out to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday in a move welcomed by the once-banned Islamist group, reflecting the new political landscape in post-revolution Egypt.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said during a visit to Budapest that Washington has been in "limited contacts" with the Muslim Brotherhood.
"The Obama administration [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - (AFP) - President Barack Obama insisted Wednesday that US participation in NATO military strikes on Libya remained limited and legal, accusing congressional critics of making a "fuss" for political reasons.
Obama told a White House press conference that he has fulfilled promises to avoid deploying US soldiers on Libyan territory and to avoid assuming the lion's s [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - The US military expressed its "disappointment" that an Iraqi court acquitted three men captured as they allegedly tried to place a bomb on a highway south of Baghdad, in a statement received on Tuesday.
"We are deeply disappointed in the court’s decision," said Colonel Reginald Allen, commander of the US military's 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment.
"To free th [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iran accused the United States and its European allies on Saturday of seeking to manipulate the oil market by forcing an "artificial" reduction in prices, the oil ministry's website SHANA reported.
"America and Europe ... have done everything they could to reduce global oil prices," Iran's OPEC representative Mohammad Ali Khatibi, whose country holds the rotat [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Tehran's state-owned flag carrier airline IranAir on Saturday dismissed fresh US sanctions against it, insisting that it is a "commercial company" operating under international aviation law.
"We are a commercial company and our job is transporting passengers and cargo," IranAir CEO Farhad Parvaresh told the state television website.
The airline's "operations [...]
NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) - (AFP) - Supporters of Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr have offered to carry out suicide attacks against US troops in Iraq, his office said Saturday, as a year-end deadline for a US pullout looms.
"Thank you, my dear friends, and God bless you," Sadr wrote in reply to the offer from loyalists of his disbanded Mahdi Army militia, a statement from his office i [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - (AFP) - Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Friday said members of his group had confessed to being CIA agents, and accused arch-foe Israel of turning to the US spy agency after failing to infiltrate his party.
The US embassy in Beirut immediately dismissed the accusations as "empty," saying Nasrallah seemed to be "addressing internal problems within Hezbollah."
In the first suc [...]
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