1. UN urges action on Somalia piracy

The United Nations Security Council has approved unanimously a resolution urging nations to send more naval ships and military aircraft to stop piracy off the coast of Somalia.

08/10/2008

2. US keeps vigil on hijacked ship

US helicopters and warships are circling a hijacked Ukrainian cargo ship loaded with 33 Soviet-designed tanks and other weapons that officials fear could wind up in the hands of al-Qaeda-linked fighters in Somalia, if the pirates are allowed to escap...

30/09/2008 | Read more...

3. UN condemns deadly Syria attack

The United Nations Security Council and several world leaders have condemned a bombing in the Syrian capital Damascus which killed 17 people.

28/09/2008

4. UN debates Israel settlements

Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, and Arab countries have slammed Israel over its settlement expansion policy in the West Bank during debates at the United Nations.

27/09/2008

5. US raid 'kills Iraqi family'

A US air raid has killed eight members of the same family near Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein, the executed Iraqi president, according to police and witnesses said.

19/09/2008

6. US deaths in Iraq helicopter crash

Seven US soldiers have been killed after their helicopter crashed as it was attempting to land in southern Iraq, the US military has said.

18/09/2008

7. US embassy bombed in Yemeni capital

At least 16 people have been killed in an attack on the US embassy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa by a suicide bomber and armed fighters, the country's interior ministry has said.

17/09/2008

8. US redeploys troops to Afghanistan

George Bush, the US president, has announced 8,000 troops will be pulled out of Iraq over the coming months and 4,500 sent to Afghanistan by January.

10/09/2008

9. US marks 'new phase' of Libya ties

Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, has met Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's leader,  in what she described as "a new phase" in relations between the two countries.

06/09/2008

10. US troops 'should stay in Iraq'

Senior military advisers have recommended that the US president maintain current troop levels in Iraq until the end of the year, Pentagon sources say.

05/09/2008

11. US 'terror' suspect freed from jail

A US court has ordered the release of an Arab-American former professor who had been in jail for five years after he was accused of being a Palestinian terrorist.

03/09/2008

12. US hands Anbar control to Iraq army

Anbar province, the scene of some of Iraq's fiercest fighting, is being handed over to local forces.

01/09/2008

13. UN aid worker killed in Somalia

A Somali working for the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) has been killed after being abducted in southern Somalia.

19/08/2008