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Zebari hopeful some US troops can stay post 2011

A US soldier on patrol in the restive northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk

BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - Iraq's president has called a meeting to decide whether US troops should stay beyond a year-end deadline, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Wednesday, adding there could be consensus to keep a small number of trainers.
President Jalal Talabani had set last weekend as the deadline for the Iraqi government to give a unified yes or no answer to Washington about some troo [...]

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US takes on Iraq pullout ‘one bite at a time’

Soldiers smoke a traditional hookah water pipe at base Kalsu

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE SPEICHER, Iraq (AFP) - (AFP) - From flyers warning troops the post office will shut soon to disused housing units waiting to be dispatched to their new destination, the signs are everywhere: US forces are packing up to leave Iraq more than eight years after they first arrived.
The scale of the operation is unprecedented in the army's history -- preparing to transfer d [...]

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Iran accuses US, Israel of killing scientist

An undated handout picture released by Iran's ISNA news agency shows 35-year-old Dariush Rezaei

TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iran on Sunday accused arch-foes the United States and Israel of masterminding the assassination of a scientist in Tehran, Dariush Rezaei-Nejad, who was reportedly associated with the defence ministry.
"The American-Zionist terrorist act yesterday against one of the country's scientists is yet another sign of the Americans' degree of animosity," speaker Ali Larijani told [...]

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US forces to stop joint operations in Iraq’s north

US troops stand to attention in front of American and Iraqi (R) flags

TIKRIT, Iraq (AFP) - (AFP) - Colonel Michael Bowers said that from August 1, American forces will no longer be part of the trilateral operation.
"By August 1, they (operations) will be bilateral" between Iraqi Kurd and Arab forces, Bowers told AFP at the US Contingency Operation Base Speicher outside the city of Tikrit north of Baghdad.
He indicated that US troops would no longer be on the str [...]

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Iran says dialogue of ‘equals’ possible with US

Iranian Foreign Minster Ali Akbar Salehi

TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iran may consider dialogue with the United States as long as it is between "equals" and Washington respects its people's rights, Foreign Minster Ali Akbar Salehi said in an interview on Friday.
"We have not ruled out establishing relations with other countries barring the Zionist regime (Israel), but it is possible that our relations are in an unusual situation with count [...]

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Yemen Qaeda chief, 10 soldiers killed in fighting

Map showing location of Zinjibar

 

ADEN, Yemen (AFP) - (AFP) - An Al-Qaeda leader and 10 soldiers have been killed in a south Yemen battle, a military source and medics said on Thursday, as a top official said the US had aided a unit besieged in the south.
Ayad al-Shabwani, a leader of the Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), was killed on Tuesday by artillery fire during heavy fighting that continue [...]

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Libya rebels claim control of oil town, US holds talks

Brega is a major centre for channelling oil through the pipelines of the resource-rich Sirte Basin

 

AJDABIYA, Libya (AFP) - (AFP) - Libyan rebels said they had won control of the strategic oil refinery town of Brega, as a US official confirmed US envoys had met with members of Moamer Kadhafi's regime.
"The bulk of Kadhafi's forces have retreated to Ras Lanuf," rebel spokesman Shamsiddin Abdulmolah told AFP, referring to another oil hub some 50 kilometres (32 miles) to the west.
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Palestinians call on US to support UN bid

Palestinians say they will not return to the negotiating table without a freeze on settlement construction

 

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - (AFP) - The Palestinians have called on the United States to reverse course and support their United Nations membership bid, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said on Wednesday.
Erakat, speaking at a news conference in Ramallah, said the Palestinians had been in touch with Washington after a meeting of the Middle East peacemaking Quartet th [...]

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Iraq’s Sadr lashes out at US

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta disclosed that US forces are unilaterally attacking Iran-backed insurgents in Iraq

 

BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Tuesday lashed out at US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta's disclosure that American forces are keeping up unilateral attacks on Iran-backed insurgents in Iraq.
Sadr's spokesman Salah al-Obeidi charged in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, south of Baghdad, that Panetta had "openly mocked Iraq's sovereignty and flaunted secu [...]

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US-Syria ties nosedive after embassy attacks

Map of Damascus locating the US and French embassies

 

DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - Syria's ties with the United States and France plummeted Tuesday four months into a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, after pro-regime crowds attacked the embassies of the two Western nations.
A regime-backed "national dialogue" on reforms, meanwhile, wrapped up a three-day meeting in Damascus with calls for the release of all political detainees.
S [...]

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