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Algeria
Abu Abderahmane, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb’s propaganda distributor, surrendered to police after stating, “I felt guilty, and I regret what I was doing.” Abderahmane supplied CDs, videotapes, and online documentation to Al Jazeera’s offices in Morocco and Doha.
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Palestinian Territories
Abbas’s security forces, gunmen clash in West Bank
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Iran
World Bank Vows a Big Loan to Iran
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Afghanistan
Air Force grounds F-15s in Afghanistan after Missouri crash
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Philippines
Troops killed five Abu Sayyaf fighters in Basilan, including commander Abdul Karim Jamjali. The US government announced it was conditioning some aid on solving unsolved political killings. A bank director from Jeddah vanished in Sulu.
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Pakistan
Pakistan says to hold election by January, Musharraf pledges to quit military
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Pakistan
Pakistan silences media in emergency
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Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda is major threat to EU: anti-terror chief
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Thailand
Five shot dead in southern Thailand; two wounded by “acid bombs”
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Iraq
Coalition forces killed five al Qaeda operatives and detained 30 in raids against leadership targets. US and Iraqi troops killed seven al Qaeda fighters and captured 20 in Baqubah. The Iraqi Army detained 81 suspected insurgents during clearing operations in Suwayrah. Iraqi Security Forces detained 22 suspected extremists in separate raids in Kubaysah and Taji. US troops captured eight insurgents in Doura.
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Iraq
Maliki declares victory over violence during walkabout in Baghdad
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Taliban gain ground as Musharraf focuses on Islamabad
As President Pervez Musharraf continues to suppress opposition to his imposition of a state of emergency, the government is cutting deals with the Taliban in South Waziristan and pushing forward with negotiations in Swat.
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Afghanistan
The Taliban seized the Khak-e Sefid district in the western province of Farah; this is the third district in Farah to fall in the past week. Afghan and NATO forces captured six Taliban fighters and killed two during a raid in Ghazni province. South Korea will withdraw its 210 troops in the north by the end of the year.
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Al Qaeda
US returns 11 Guantanamo detainees to Afghanistan and Jordan
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Iran
Iran rules out possibility of US military strike
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Afghanistan
Taliban stealthily sought warlord’s weapons cache
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Yemen
Yemeni tribesmen blow up oil pipeline
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Pakistan
Pakistani police beat, arrest protesters
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Pakistan
Pakistan: More than 1,500 lawyers arrested across the country
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Hezbollah
Report: Hezbollah Stages Maneuvers
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Palestinian Territories
Six Palestinian officers jailed over failure to stop Hamas offensive
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Pakistan
Pakistan facing aid cuts by West
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Pakistan
Imran Khan in hiding as 500 detained in Pakistan
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Iraq
Iraq: Sheik Takes Steps to Create Concerned Local Citizens Group
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Musharraf silences the Pakistani media
Musharraf’s media restricts threaten flow of information on the news inside Pakistan and the status of the battle against the Taliban and al Qaeda.
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Israel
Israel reveals bomb plot with Rice in Jerusalem
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Afghanistan
Armed Northern Militias Complicate Afghan Security
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Iraq
Night raids net Iraqi bombing suspects
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Pakistan
US reviews aid to Pakistan
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Iran
US Sanctions Force World Bank to Halt Some Iran Aid
