Above: Islam jihad attack Israel Two Israeli civilians were killed in a cross-border raid on the Israeli Gaza border by Palestinian militants. At least four gunmen stormed the fuel depot at Nahal Oz in broad daylight. The depot is the main depot from which all fuel supplies are piped into Gaza. Palestinians in Gaza, over the past few days, have complained about the shortage of gasoline in their area. Israeli officials said fuel supplies had been sent in through this depot every day, including ... Read More

Above: The Mahdi Army has taken control of Basra. Crude oil prices rose to $107.58 a barrel (up 1.68) in New York, after a pipeline explosion in Iraq cut one of the main supplies to the country's main oil export terminal. The Zubair-1 pipeline is one of two that transport oil to the Basra terminal. Although the Iraqi oil ministry is still not certain as to what caused the explosion, they pretty much have a concrete idea. The ongoing clashes in the area between ... Read More

On Monday, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri (shown in picture above [right] with bin Laden [left]), who is considered as Osama bin Laden’s second in command, urged Muslims to attack Jewish and American targets worldwide in retaliation for the ongoing Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip. The message was brought through a recorded tape, much like the two earlier tapes of Osama bin Laden who is calling for a holy war on behalf of the Palestinians. In those tapes he also warned of a ... Read More

Above: Bomb victim, lost his leg BAGHDAD, Iraq. Murtada was a man who lives a happy and contented life of being a simple taxi driver yet a proud father and husband to his family. Suddenly life has its way of turning even just the simplest lives to shatter. When people go to war, it seems inevitable for the people’s lives that are surrounded by the grueling war be affected by it, and in this story, I rest my case. One morning of October ... Read More

Above: American Hostage BHAGDAD- U.S. authorities that are located in Baghdad had received severed five fingers that are supposedly the finger of the 5 hostages that were taken for more than a year ago in Iraq, as U.S. officials had informed media last Wednesday. Notifying the families of the 5 captives as FBI is thorough in their investigation for development, U.S. officials however stressed to media that sources should be remained unknown since leakage of information to the public is not allowed. The fingers had ... Read More

Above: US Soldier in Baghdad BAGHDAD – A bomb hit the roadside in southern Iraq on a Tuesday and it hit a bus costing the lives of over 16 civilians, as well as open fire had happened on another bus killing another person. Three American soldiers had been reported dead by the U.S. military on a Monday by a bomb on the roadside north of Baghadad, with a sum of eight Americans that had died that day. It had been the deadliest day for ... Read More

Above: Two American soldiers patrolling Baghdad Three American soldiers were the latest victims of recent attacks in Southern Iraq. The soldiers, who were at the Combat Outpost Adder near Nasiriya, were killed from a barrage of rockets that peppered their small base early morning Wednesday. Two other soldiers and a civilian were wounded in the attack. This brings the death toll to 12 in 3 days. One American soldier died by a roadside bomb in his patrol near Diwaniya yesterday; eight died ... Read More

Above: Al Qaeda's bomb blast A crowded, predominantly Shi’ite Baghdad shopping area was bombed twice by suspected al Qaeda on Thursday at around 7 in the evening. The first attack, according to police, was a roadside bomb that was detonated on a street in the central Karadah district. The area was filled with vendors and their customers since Thursday is already weekend for Muslims. Women and children were among the more than 50 casualties; 120 plus more were injured. The second attack, which came only ... Read More

Above: IDF enter the library A gunman killed 8 students in a prominent Jewish seminary right in the heart of Jerusalem on Thursday. He wounded nine others; with three of them left in critical condition. One of the wounded are pictured below. In a sad twist of fate, the students were currently praying at the time of the attack. After killing two at the entrance of the Mercaz Harav yeshiva, the gunman proceeded into the library and fired at the religious students with his Kalashnikov ... Read More

Above: Rocket attacks from Hamas Only within a few hours of the IDF withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, Hamas had already declared victory. And as an exclamation point of sorts, the Hamas Qassam rockets were launched (like pictured above from Gaza) once again at nearby Israeli towns as if nothing had happened; as if saying that after two days of killing more than 60 Palestinians, the Israelis still had failed to destroy the rocket launchers. "I saw that people in Hamas said it was a ... Read More