Word: border
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Scherrer said the “best project to date” was providing sewing machines for the Iraqi Women’s League in Al Qaim, which lies on the Iraq-Syria border. A donor group, identified on Beyond Orders as The Hugs Group, sent approximately 20 sewing machines to Marine Lt. Colin Ricks through the Web site in the summer...
...measured in deeds. The inauguration last week of Qatar's first Christian church - a small Catholic chapel bearing neither bells nor visible crosses - has been hailed as a welcome step forward in relations between Catholicism and Islam. But an even more dramatic development is under discussion just across the border: The Vatican has confirmed that it is negotiating for permission to build the first church in Saudi Arabia...
...resumption of the Hizballah-Israel war that ravaged Lebanon in the summer of 2006. Some Lebanese even have a precise date for it: April 6 - the day Israel's biggest emergency drill ever starts, when they believe the Israeli Defense Forces juggernaut will roll across the border to finish the job they should have during the 34-day conflict. Although, mind you, there's not a thread of evidence that the Israelis are really going to invade...
...however, most of that talk has fallen away. Gen. David Petraeus recently made a point of saying publicly that Iran continues to train Iraqi militants. "These are individuals with considerable skill who can train other individuals in Iraq," said Petraeus, who spoke to reporters as he toured a border post in southern Iraq facing Iran. "It is a very unhelpful addition to the mix. We call it a lethal accelerant to a situation in Iraq that already has enough challenges...
...training in Iran came in late 2005, when he says he and a group of roughly 14 other Iraqis drove to the southern city of Amarah, near the Iranian border. Everything had been arranged through contacts in Syria and Lebanon, where he and his group had fled for a time trying to avoid capture by American forces. According to Ali, a convoy of new sport utility vehicles with drivers speaking only broken Arabic was waiting for them in Amarah. Soon the group was on the road east for a five-hour drive. The destination was an Iranian training facility, where...