IRAQI troops backed by US forces battled gunmen in Baghdad`s Sadr City today in the heaviest fighting in the capital since Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr pulled his militiamen off the streets a week ago
A FIVE-YEAR-OLD Palestinian boy was killed during fighting between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip today, medical workers and militant groups said
AN apparent mortar attack smashed windows at a complex housing Americans and other Westerners in the Yemeni capital Sanaa today, but there were no casualties, a Yemeni security official said