Iraq currently has security control of 10 of its 18 provinces.
BAGHDAD -- Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has extended indefinitely a cease-fire for his Al-Mahdi militia and ordered his followers to protest peacefully against the U.S. occupation.
KABUL -- Afghan forces have taken over responsibility for the security of the capital, Kabul, in what is largely viewed as a symbolic move.
BP is conducting secret, high-level negotiations with the Russia-connected billionaires who co-own its troubled Russian venture TNK-BP and an outline deal to settle their dispute may come in weeks, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Three U.S. soldiers killed four handcuffed and blindfolded Iraqi prisoners with pistol shots on the bank of a Baghdad canal last year, "The New York Times" has reported.
Afghanistan is going through a critical period and an international meeting including Taliban-led insurgents should be held to ward off crisis, the country's main opposition group said.
A German soldier has been killed and three more injured in an attack by militant forces in northern Afghanistan.
A Japanese aid worker kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan has been found dead, according to the governor of Nangarhar Province, Gul Agha Sherzai.
An air strike killed 30 Taliban in southeastern Afghanistan close to the border with Pakistan, and Afghan police killed 18 more militants in the south of the country, officials said on August 27.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed decrees on August 26 recognizing the independence of Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Following is the Reuters translation of his statement, which was posted on the Kremlin's web site.
Afghan police have freed a kidnapped Japanese aid worker in a raid, hours after he was seized by a group of gunmen.
The United Nations says it has found convincing evidence that 90 Afghan civilians, most of them children, were killed in air strikes by U.S.-led coalition forces in western Afghanistan last week.
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of Iraqi police recruits, killing 28 people and wounding 45.
Afghan police have clashed with the kidnappers of a male Japanese aid worker in eastern Nangarhar Province, freeing the man's local driver, a police spokesman said.
The United States urged Russia on August 25 not to recognize two rebel regions of Georgia as independent states and complained that Moscow still was not honoring a ceasefire by keeping its troops in Georgia.
Russia's flagship cruiser reentered the Black Sea on August 25 for weapons tests hours after the Russian military complained about the presence of U.S. and other NATO naval ships near the Georgian coast.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said Russia sees no advantages to World Trade Organization (WTO) membership and should freeze some commitments made during entry talks in a sign Moscow is pulling away from the West after its conflict with Georgia.
Georgian and South Ossetian forces were in a tense standoff over control of a disputed village on the edge of the breakaway region, according to Georgian and separatist officials.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has warned ex-Soviet Moldova against repeating Georgia's mistake of trying to use force to seize back control of a breakaway region.
An Iraqi clan overwhelmed by shock and grief buried its dead after a suicide bomber killed 25 people at a celebratory banquet in west Baghdad.
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