Iraqi Government security forces battle insurgents, Sunnis test Shiites power and will
Kiran Chaube
Jan. 15, 2012

The Sunnis are testing Shiite will in Iraq. In a test for Iraqi forces following the withdrawal of the U.S. military mission last month, a dozen of armed insurgents dressed in military uniforms and explosives-rigged vests stormed the compound in the city of Ramadi in the predominantly Sunni Arab western province of Anbar. A high-level political meeting in Baghdad failed to make progress toward ending a power sharing crisis dividing and creating massive tension in Iraq for the past several months.

Iraqi security forces fought with insurgents who blasted their way into a police compound west of Baghdad to free terror suspects in a deadly battle lasting several hours on Sunday.

Iraqi Government security forces battle insurgents, Sunnis test Shiites power and will
Kiran Chaube
Iraqi security forces fought with insurgents who blasted their way into a police compound west of Baghdad to free terror suspects in a deadly battle lasting several hours on Sunday.
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China intervenes to bring truce, Zardari, Kayani meet. Pakistani drama of high end power share ends
Balaji Reddy
The meeting was forced by the Chinese. The meeting that lasted for about an hour is the first between the two since the memo scandal triggered tense confrontation between the two sides. The truce is reached.
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'I was sure I was going to die,' said the passengers as they fought over life jackets st a wrecked cruise ship in Italy
Kiran Chaube
Passengers leap into the sea and fight over life-jackets in panic when an Italian cruise ship ran aground and keeled over, killing at least three and leaving fifteen dead or missing.
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Arab League warned on Friday that Syria may be sliding toward civil war
Special Correspondent
Over the course of the 10-month-old uprising, much of the bloodshed has been from security forces firing on unarmed protesters. But in recent months breakaway soldiers have been attacking the Syrian military...
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A military prosecutor of Poland committed an act of attempted suicide during a press conference
Special correspondent
Col. Mikolaj Przybyl was investigating the crash of the presidential Tu-154 jetliner near Smolensk, Russia.
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Iran blames Israel for bomb killing Iranian nuclear scientist
Ved Mundhra
'The bomb was a magnetic one and the same as the ones previously used for the assassination of the scientists, and is the work of the Zionists,' Tehran Deputy Governor Safarali Baratlou told the semi-official Fars news agency, referring to Israel.
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China will decide the fate of Zardari Government
Kiran Chaube
The spur between Pakistani Military leadership and civilian leadership is open now.
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Former Pakistan envoy Former Pakistan envoy Husain Haqqani fears for life
Subir Sinha
Pakistan's Supreme Court recently constituted a three-member judicial commission to probe the matter that threatens to implicate Zardari.
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