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  • Israeli Occupation Troops Start Pullout From Qalqilya

    QALQILYA, West Bank (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israeli tanks and occupation troops began on Monday to pull back from positions in and around the West Bank city of Qalqilya, security sources from both sides said.Two Israeli tanks and occupation troops on foot pulled out of the southern entrance to the city where Palestinian security officers took up.. More

  • U.S. Bombs Wound Up to 300 Taliban -Aid Workers

    KHOJA BAHAWUDDIN, Afghanistan/ISLAMABAD (Islamweb & News Agencies) - U.S. planes blasted Taliban front lines Sunday where foreign aid workers estimate up to 300 fighters of the ruling Afghan militia have been wounded in the last week.The opposition Northern Alliance reported another day of fierce fighting at front lines in the north of Afghanistan and.. More

  • Pakistani Police Detain Two Men in Anthrax Probe

    KARACHI (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Police in Pakistan's port city of Karachi said Sunday they had detained two men for questioning over a suspected case of anthrax spores delivered to the country's most popular Urdu-language daily. The two men, who have not been charged, ran an educational welfare trust and had sent a press release to the Daily Jang.. More

  • U.N. Envoy Warns No Quick Afghan Solution

    ISLAMABAD (Islamweb & News Agencies) - United Nations special envoy for Afghanistan Lakhdar Brahimi (photo-left)said on Tuesday that after two days of talks with Pakistani officials and Afghan exiles he saw little prospect yet of progress on the country's problems. Brahimi agreed with Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf earlier that any.. More

  • US Helicopter Crashes in Afghanistan, Crew Rescued

    WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - A U.S. helicopter on a special forces mission in Afghanistan crashed in bad weather on Friday, injuring four crewmembers, but all were rescued and evacuated from the country, the Pentagon said.The Pentagon said F-14 Tomcats from the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt destroyed the damaged helicopter. This is standard.. More

  • Peres, Arafat Meet, As Resistance Kills an Israeli Settler

    FORMENTOR, Spain (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat have met at an economic conference at a secluded Spanish island resort but were not planning formal talks.(Read photo caption below)Aides poured cold water on speculation Peres and Arafat would hold their first formal meeting since.. More

  • Anthrax Spooks Europe And Asia

    KARACHI, Pakistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Pakistan's largest newspaper evacuated some of its editorial offices after a letter tested positive for anthrax in one of two new overseas cases reported Friday. (Read photo caption below)In India, the health secretary of a western state said Friday that powder found in an envelope in a government office.. More

  • Taliban Say They Have Americans

    KABUL/ISLAMABAD (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Afghanistan's Taliban rulers said on Thursday they had arrested several U.S. citizens but the announcement shed no light on who they were or what they were doing.``We have a few American citizens with us. They have been arrested,'' Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef said. ``Their identities.. More

  • Turkish Forces to Train Afghan Opposition

    ANKARA (Islamweb & News Agencies) - NATO's only Muslim member state, Turkey, announced Thursday it would send a team of around 90 special forces troops to Afghanistan to help train the U.S.-backed opposition battling the ruling Taliban.(Read photo cation below)The government said Turkey, which has close intelligence links with Afghanistan's opposition.. More

  • Taliban Admits Opposition Forces Have Entered Mazar-i-Sharrif

    JABAL SARAJ, Afghanistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The opposition proclaimed victory Friday over the Taliban in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, the most significant prize in northern Afghanistan. American officials confirmed opposition forces were in the city and said fighters of the ruling Taliban were fleeing.The capture of Mazar-e-Sharif would be.. More

  • Annan Warns of Tension Among 'Anti-Terror' Allies

    GENEVA (Islamweb & News Agencies) - U.N. chief Kofi Annan warned on Thursday that tensions within the international ``anti-terror'' alliance could intensify the longer air strikes against Afghanistan continued. (Read photo caption below) Annan, who was on a visit to the United Nations' European headquarters, said ``terrorism'' could only be defeated.. More

  • US Determined To Continue Raids During Ramadan

    WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - U.S. national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday the United States could not afford to stop its war on terrorism for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. (Read graph caption below) The leaders of some Muslim nations, including U.S. ally Pakistan that shares a long border with Afghanistan, have.. More

  • India Accuses Pakistan of Provocative Troop Moves

    NEW DELHI (Islamweb & News Agencies) - India accused Pakistan on Thursday of carrying out provocative troop movements near the border in the bitterly disputed Kashmir region as tension between the nuclear foes mounted. (Read photo caption below) A senior Indian official said the Pakistani army had moved some offensive formations closer to the border,.. More

  • Israel Kills Two More Palestinian Activists and Captures More Palestinian Territory

    JERUSALEM, (Islamweb & News Agencies)-Two more Palestinians were killed in a new Israeli incursion into Palestinian-ruled territory near the city of Jenin.Several others were arrested.  Israeli tanks and bulldozers have raided the Palestinian-controlled West Bank village of Arrabe to arrest suspected Islamic militants. Troops seized several people,.. More

  • Israel Drags Feet over Withdrawal as Perez Drafts Initiative

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) -Israeli occupation forces held fast to positions in and around five Palestinian cities, defying repeated U.S. calls for a full withdrawal from areas occupied after Palestinian militants killed an Israeli cabinet minister on October 17. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres meanwhile said he was drafting a new Middle.. More