The Iraqi body count grows in Falluja, as U.S. forces continue an offensive against resistance fighters. NGOs report dead bodies lying in the streets, ambulances being shot by snipers, and medical aid being stopped by U.S. occupation forces
A battalion of the new U.S. trained Iraqi Army refuses to go to Falluja to fight.. They say they hadn’t signed up to fire on fellow Iraqis
New fighting between rival groups in Afghanistan in the North of the country.. While two unmanned U.S. drones crash a block from a ceremony where American and Afghan officials are inaugurating a courthouse
Israel’s right wing Likud Party is set to vote on a pull out from the Gaza Strip and four West Bank Jewish settlements