KABUL: At least sixteen persons including women and children were killed in US Army air strikes in Afghanistan.Afghan police officials said that the US fighter planes bombed the outskirts of Heart, which resulted in the death of 16 persons including six women and to children. Police said that three among the dead apparently look like militants, but the others were civilians.However, US Army claimed that the militants’ commander Ghulam Yahya Akbari was targeted in air strike killing 15 militants including Ghulam Yahya. Police said that Commander Ghulam Yahya was not included among those killed.
BEIRUT: Thousands of people converged Saturday on central Beirut to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri.Waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the slain leader, men, women and children gathered under sunny skies in Martyr's Square where members of the parliamentary majority were to address the crowd. The rally comes as final preparations are underway in The Hague for the launch of the international tribunal set up to bring Hariri's killers to justice. It also comes as the country prepares for legislative elections in June that will pit Western-backed political parties against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.Hariri died in a massive car bombing on February 14, 2005 that also killed 22 others. The assassination was widely blamed on then Lebanese power-broker Syria, which has denied any involvement. The attack on the Beirut seafront was one of the worst acts of political violence to rock Lebanon since t...
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