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United States President George W. Bush's strategy of promoting democracy in the Middle East has sharpened the Arabs negative
perception against the United States and hardened the Islamists position toward the existing regimes and moderate Arabs, a Middle Eastern scholar argues in the latest edition of the journal Arab Insight.

American troop numbers hit an all time high of 162,000 this week, but Pentagon claimed that this was due to a an "artificial spike”, denying reports that the United States assigning more troops to the conflict.

Iranian authorities are preparing to stone a mother of two to death for adultery, according to human rights groups.

United States will face a persistent and evolving terrorist threat over the next three years, including attacks by terror groups on behalf of Iran, according the the National Intelligence Estimate released today.

The US Senate yesterday voted 90-5 to authorize President George W. Bush's planned missile defense shield against Iran.

Democrat Governor Bill Richardson on Monday said that the Bush administration were foolish to fund Iraqi exile groups in the delusional expectation that they will somehow be able to topple the regime, and called on the President not to repeat the mistake.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visited Washington yesterday and met with US President George W. Bush to finalise plans for a joint US-Israel strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.

There's no proof that Iranian government is supplying weapons to Taliban, US Defense Secretary was forced to admit today, contradicting a statement by State Department official who accused the Iranian government of transferring the weapons.

United Nations Secretary-General today tacitly gave the go ahead to US an Israel to attack Iran as American and Israeli jets took part in a joint exercise aimed at preparing the two countries for the looming strike.

Children as young as seven years old were 'forcibly disappeared' by the CIA, according to report published today jointly by six human rights groups naming 39 people who are believed to have been held in secret US custody and whose current whereabouts remain unknown.