Libyan rebels have regained control of the eastern gateway city of Ajdabiya after international airstrikes on Muammar Gaddafi’s forces.

US President Barack Obama will announce his decision on whether to send more US troops to Afghanistan “within days” after he held a final strategy session with top aides, the White House said yesterday.

An Iraqi MP said today that parliament has reached a compromise to approve a resolution allowing all foreign troops other than Americans to stay in Iraq until July 2009.

The top US general in Iraq says American troops will move into southern Iraq early next year to replace departing British forces.

A grenade attack on anti-government protesters occupying the Thai prime minister’s office killed one person and wounded at least 23 early today.

The top US military commander for the Middle East resigned today amid speculation about a rift over American policy in Iran.

About five thousand Virginia Tech students are set to graduate in the US today, less than a month after gunman Seung-Hui Cho shot 32 students and faculty members before turning the gun on himself.

THE US government dispatched its top two foreign policy officials to Iraq yesterday in a dramatic show of support for the country’s emerging government.

Twenty-three terror suspects tried to hang or strangle themselves at the United States military base in Guantanamo Bay on Cuba during a mass protest in 2003, the United States military confirmed.

US presidential candidate John Kerry was today expected to announce his choice of running mate to take on George Bush and the Republicans for control of The White House.

US Senator John Edwards formally ended his pursuit of the Democratic nomination, pledging to “do everything in my power” to help John Kerry win the White House.

US forces in Iraq have captured one of the most senior members of Ansar al-Islam, an extremist group suspected of having ties to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network, US defence officials said.

A six-month-old baby girl was found alive and well among dead bodies on a Colombian battlefield.

American and Afghan forces are making slow but steady progress in gaining control of the Tora Bora area according to the US war commander for Afghanistan.

Mohammed Atef, Osama bin Laden’s right hand man and likely successor, is believed to have been killed by a US air strike, an American official said today.

US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld has described the targeting of Taliban frontline troops in Afghanistan as a logical step towards the goal of destroying the Taliban and the al Qaida terrorist network it harbours.

Analysts say America's military response to the terrorist attacks is likely to be a series of air strikes and relatively small-scale raids by special forces.