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  • Afghan Opposition Plan Offensive, U.S. Bombs Taliban Positions

    ISLAMABAD/KABUL (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The opposition Northern Alliance said on Monday it planned to launch a multi-pronged offensive after weeks of watching U.S. planes bomb Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia. (Read photo caption below) Three commanders of the loose-knit Alliance, which controls less than 10 percent of Afghanistan, decided.. More

  • Washington Expects Additional Terrorist Attacks over Next Week

    WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The U.S. government on Monday issued a second public advisory warning that additional terrorist attacks may come over the next week, Attorney General John Ashcroft said. (Read photo caption)``The administration has concluded, based on information developed, that there may be additional terrorist attacks within.. More

  • Rumsfeld: Iraq May be Target

    WASHINGTON, (Islamweb & News Agencies)-US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says he cannot rule out military action against Iraq in the US-led war on terrorism. (Read photo caption below) He was speaking after the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister, Tariq Aziz, said he believed the US planned to attack 300 Iraqi targets with 1,000 missiles. However, British.. More

  • Syrian president in Sudan

    KHARTOUM, Sudan, (Islamweb & News Agencies)- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has begun a two-day visit to Sudan - the first by a Syrian president for more than 30 years. (Read photo caption below) The Syrian Foreign Minister, Faruq al-Shara, who is accompanying the president, said the aim was to further improve bilateral relations and enhance Arab.. More

  • U.S. Military Commander Meets Pakistani President

    ISLAMABAD (Islamweb & News Agencies) - General Tommy Franks, commander of the U.S. Army's Central Command, discussed the Afghan war with Pakistani military ruler General Pervez Musharraf on Monday, the foreign ministry said. (Read photo caption below) Franks met Musharraf, who is head of the armed forces, along with other senior Pakistani officers,.. More

  • U.S. Bombers Kill Kabul Family, Bus of Refugees

    KABUL (Islamweb & News Agencies) - A U.S. bomb flattened a flimsy mud-brick home in Kabul Sunday blowing apart seven children as they ate breakfast with their father. (Read photo caption below) The blast shattered a neighbor's house killing another two children in one of the most gruesome scenes of Washington's three-week-old bombing of the Afghan capital. U... More

  • Blair Tries to Calm Nerves Over Afghanistan

    LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tony Blair will urge Britons this week to hold their nerve after a series of setbacks to the U.S.-led campaign against Osama bin Laden and the Taliban in Afghanistan, Blair's spokeswoman said on Sunday.He will seek to reassure the public that Britain was right to back Washington's military strikes and that their combined.. More

  • Gunmen Kill Christians in Pakistani Church

    BAHAWALPUR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Women keened over the bodies of 15 Christians lying in pools of blood in a Pakistani church Sunday after masked gunmen on motorcycles drew up, shot dead a police guard and sprayed the congregation with Kalashnikov fire.(Read photo caption below)Christians feared they could become targets if unrest broke out in Muslim.. More

  • Philippine Blast Kills Six

    ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AP) - A powerful bomb tore through a food court Sunday, killing at least six people and injuring 53 others while U.S. military officers were in town to discuss helping the government fight Muslim rebels.Philippine authorities blamed the Muslim rebel group Abu Sayyaf, which allegedly has links to Osama bin Laden, for the blast.. More

  • Bodies of Kursk Sailors Sent Home

    MOSCOW (AP) - The sailors aboard the Kursk could not have been at fault for the explosions that destroyed the nuclear submarine last year, Russia's top prosecutor said Sunday as rescuers pulled more bodies out of the mangled vessel. (Read photo caption below) Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov, in an interview on state-run RTR television, said ballistics.. More

  • N.Irish Peace Boost as Trimble Gets Party Backing

    BELFAST (Reuters) - The leader of Northern Ireland's pro-British Protestants, David Trimble, secured backing from his party on Saturday to seek re-election as head of the province's power sharing government, keeping peace hopes alive. (Read photo caption below)Political analysts view Trimble's return to the post of first minister as vital to shore up.. More

  • Israel Calls Off West Bank Pullout Citing Violence

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israel said on Saturday it was postponing indefinitely a scheduled withdrawal of its troops from Bethlehem and a neighboring Palestinian town because of continuing violence.Fierce fighting broke out in and around the West Bank town of Bethlehem and near Palestinian-ruled Nablus on Saturday just hours before Israel.. More

  • U.S. Bomb Kills 10 in Northern Afghanistan -TV

    DUBAI (Reuters) - A stray American bomb has killed at least 10 people in a village controlled by Afghanistan's opposition Northern Alliance, Qatar's al-Jazeera television reported on Sunday.It quoted medical sources in the city of Jabal-us-Saraj as saying that the village, which was hit on Saturday, was located just a few miles from the frontline between.. More

  • Taliban Take Back Town, Execute Rival

    KABUL (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The Taliban executed a commander of the exiled opposition captured on Friday after he crossed into Afghanistan to raise rebellion against the government, which scored battlefield gains during a U.S. bombing lull. The swift execution of Abdul Haq, a veteran mujahideen holy warrior who fought the Soviet occupation,.. More

  • Anthrax Found in Lawmakers' Offices

    WASHINGTON (AP) - Trace amounts of anthrax were discovered Friday in the offices of three congressmen in a House office building as evidence of bioterrorism spread on Capitol Hill. The spores were found in the offices of Reps. John E. Baldacci, D-Maine; Rush Holt, D-N.J., and Mike Pence, R-Ind., on the sixth and seventh floors of the Longworth House.. More