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: Lee Myung Bak North and South Korea ties are thinning anew. North Korea unleashed propaganda against the South’s recently elected president, Lee Myung-bak (pictured above), calling him a “traitor” and a “US sycophant.” Sycophant, for those who are unfamiliar with the term, is the same as a back scratcher, or a boot licker, or, how do we put this politely… um, a “behind” kisser. After nearly a decade of peace and reconciliation, the North is suddenly on the attack. Mr. Lee “is making a mess ... Read More

Above: Bosnian Serb Army It has been more than ten years since the Bosnian War ended, but the atmosphere in Sarajevo is still the same. The Serbs are not done yet. Branislav Dukic, leader of the Association of Bosnian Serb War Victims, confirmed that their group plans to build an 85 foot cross on Trebevic Hill this month, in memory of Serb war victims. During the war, Trebevic Hill was one of the deadliest locations from which the Serbs mercilessly fired artillery on Sarajevo. Today, ... 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: KFOR in street Serbs were set to free their arrested comrades as if they were the law. 300 of them fought with UN and Kosovo Force (KFOR: NATO troops) in Mitrovica after the latter group were forced to storm the courthouse that they had been occupying since Friday. After arrests were made inside the premises, three UN vehicles (like the one that was burned: pictured below) were attacked by the Serbs to free their recently captured comrades. Out of the 53 arrested inside, only ... 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