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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

2296 09/05/2001
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

2297 09/05/2001
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

2267 08/05/2001
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

2269 08/05/2001
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

2270 08/05/2001
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

2271 08/05/2001
Indian Kashmir Violence Kills 31

SRINAGAR, Indian-ruled Kashmir,(Islamweb & News Agencies) - At least 31 people were killed late Thursday and Friday in Indian-ruled Kashmir, where violence has spiraled since the start of the U.S. strikes on Afghanistan, Indian police said Friday. The death toll, which included 27 Muslim Resistance men, was reported within a single 24-hour period since.. More

2272 08/05/2001
Experts Warn of Low-Grade Nuclear Terror Attack

VIENNA (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Any future act of nuclear terrorism could use crude weapons aimed more at spreading panic than causing physical harm, experts warned on Friday. (Read photo caption below) ``In some states where radioactive materials are not well regulated, they are potentially available,'' said Graham Andrew, scientific adviser at.. More

2273 08/05/2001
Re-Run Possible After Trimble Loses N.Irish Vote

BELFAST (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Britain held out the prospect of a re-run of a key vote to save Northern Ireland's political structures after Protestant hard-liners on Friday defeated David Trimble's bid to return as head of the province's government.(Read photo caption below)Political sources said a repeat vote could see Nobel peace laureate Trimble.. More

2274 08/05/2001
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

2250 08/05/2001
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

2251 08/05/2001
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

2252 08/05/2001
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

2253 08/05/2001
U.N. Says Afghans Come for Talks with Peace Envoy

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - U.N. Afghan envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on Thursday will meet Afghans arriving from inside the battered country to discuss replacing the Taliban leaders, a U.N. spokesman said.The talks, coming a day after Brahimi refused to meet Taliban ambassador Abdul Salam Zaeef, underlined the isolation of the Taliban.. More

2254 08/05/2001
US Says More Troops in Afghanistan Soon

WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The United States will soon put more elite troops on the ground in Afghanistan, sharply increasing bomb targeting and other support for anti-Taliban forces, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Thursday. (Read photo caption below) But bad weather and Taliban ground fire had beaten back recent attempts to.. More

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