| Gunmen Rob Baghdad Jewelry Stores in Sight of Checkpoints, Killing at Least 14 A large group of gunmen, armed with rifles, grenades and bombs, killed at least 14 people, in an audacious midday robbery, according to officials and a witness. nytimes.com |
New Bombings Strike Shiites in Iraq A day after a suicide bomber killed more than 50 people in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims at a police checkpoint in Baghdad, more explosions struck worshipers on Thursday. feeds.nytimes.com |
Iran Shows What It Says Is Murder Confession State television broadcast what it portrayed as a murder confession by a woman who had been sentenced to death by stoning on adultery charges. nytimes.com |
Iraq: American Airman Killed at Base An American airman was killed on Thursday and a soldier wounded while detonating seized explosives at Balad, a sprawling military base north of Baghdad. nytimes.com |
National Briefing | Southwest: Texas: Jordanian Sentenced in Bomb Plot A Jordanian man who tried to blow up a Dallas skyscraper during an F.B.I. sting was sentenced Tuesday to 24 years in prison by Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn of Federal District Court. feeds.nytimes.com |