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  • Kuwait closes 'terror-link' charities

    KUWAIT CITY, (BBC)-The authorities in Kuwait have begun closing down dozens of unlicensed Islamic charities, some of which are suspected of having links to extremist groups such as Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda organisation. No proof has yet been made public and Kuwait's main charities say they have nothing to hide. But some politicians, such as the.. More

  • Anti-terror summit ends in Morocco

    AGADIR, Morocco, (BBC) -Foreign Ministers from seven European and North African states have ended a two day meeting in the Moroccan resort of Agadir, the first such conference involving Western and Arab governments since the start of the US led action against international terrorism. The ministers who met under the Euro-Mediterranean Forum, created.. More

  • Thousands in Pakistan 'Million Man' U.S. Protest

    KARACHI (Reuters) - About 40,000 activists from hardline Pakistani Islamic groups took to the streets of the city of Karachi Friday to demand an end to U.S. raids on Afghanistan and the overthrow of Pakistan's military government. (Read photo caption below) Security was tight as overloaded pickups, trucks and buses ferried flag-waving members of right-wing.. More

  • Heavy Bombing of Taliban Front Lines

    KABUL (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Circling high to avoid anti-aircraft fire, U.S. bombers launched their heaviest raids yet on Taliban front lines north of Kabul on Saturday.Warplanes also hit the capital itself with a rapid succession of bombs. Washington's campaign to replace the hardline Islamic militia in Kabul with a broad coalition of Afghans.. More

  • Pakistani Tribesmen Set Up Camp Near Afghan Border

    ISLAMABAD (Islaweb & News Agencies) - Several thousand armed Pakistani tribesmen set out to cross into Afghanistan on Saturday to help the Taliban militia which is under U.S. attack, Islamic party officials said.Witnesses said buses, wagons, pick-up trucks and vehicles with Muslim activists armed with Kalashnikov rifles and rocket launchers left for.. More

  • At Least 17 Die in Indian Kashmir Violence

    SRINAGAR (Islamweb & Agencies) - At least 17 people, including eight civilians, were killed and several were injured in scattered violence acrossMuslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir, Indian police said on Saturday.Fighting has flared in the mountainous region since the United States began attacking Muslim militants in Afghanistan this month. More.. More

  • Iraq Says Expecting U.S. and Britain to Attack

    LONDON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz was quoted on Saturday as saying he expected the United States and Britain to launch attacks on Iraq. (Read photo caption below) In an interview with Britain's Sunday Telegraph newspaper conducted in Baghdad, Aziz said that Washington and London wanted to use the ``war against.. More

  • Israel Kills 5 More Palestinians As the UN Security Council Stops Short of Condemning Israeli Occupation of Palestinian-Ruled Territory

    JERUSALEM, NEW YORK, United Nations, (Islamweb & News Agencies)- Deadly gun battles raged in the streets of the West Bank towns of Bethlehem and Tulkarem Thursday, as the Israeli government mulled pulling out its entrenched forces amid a rising tide of international criticism. In New York, the United Nations Security Council issued a statement calling.. More

  • Saudi Arabia has strongly attacked the Western media for criticising its position on terrorism.

    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, (News Agencies)-In a speech published on Thursday, called it a smear campaign inspired by hatred of Islam. (Read photo captions below) Several US senators, as well as the US media, have accused Saudi Arabia of not doing enough in the war against terror - a charge it vehemently denies."The vicious western media attack against the.. More

  • U.S. Targets Taliban Strongholds in Fierce Raids

    KABUL/PESHAWAR (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes hit a crowded bus and worshipers leaving a mosque in their latest raids to flush out Osama bin Laden from Afghanistan, the ruling Taliban said Thursday. (Read photo caption below) The explosions were among the largest for several nights. The targets of the bombs and any damage could not be immediately known.. More

  • Pakistani Nuke Scientists Questioned

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani authorities interrogated two leading nuclear scientists Thursday about possible contacts with the leader of Afghanistan's Taliban militia, government officials said. Sultan Bashiru-Din Mehmood, one of the founders of Pakistan's nuclear program, was detained Tuesday by intelligence agents in the eastern city of Lahore... More

  • Egyptian, U.S. Troops End Maneuvers

    MUBARAK MILITARY CITY, Egypt (AP) - Egyptian and American soldiers ended desert maneuvers Thursday after two weeks of sharing techniques and tactics. The issue of the American-led attacks on Afghanistan seldom came up.(Read photo caption below) Egyptian Capt. Hamdi, who declined to give his surname, said Egyptian troops were ``following instructions''.. More

  • U.N. Accuses Iraq of Illegal Oil Shipments

    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations accused Iraq on Thursday of smuggling some 10 million worth of oil in violation of U.N. sanctions regulations by loading the petroleum into a tanker after U.N. inspectors disembarked. In 19 pages of documents submitted to the Security Council's Iraqi sanctions committee, Benon Sevan, head of the U.N. oil-for-food.. More

  • US-backed forces meet resistance as UN & Arabs warn of civilian casualties Now Reportedly Put at 1000

    ISLAMABAD, (Islamweb & News Agencies) -A US-led bid to score quick wins over the Taliban before the Afghan winter sets in met stiff resistance Tuesday as civilians suffered on both sides of the frontline. The Doha-based Al-Jazeera TV Satellite Station meanwhile reported that 45 Afghans were killed in US air raids on Kabul, Herrat and Kandahar early.. More

  • Defiant Israel Appears to be Preparing for A Wide Ranging Military Operation in the Gaza Strip

    JERUSALEM, (Islamweb & News Agencies)-Al-Jazeera TV Satellite Station correspondent in Palestine quoted well-informed sources as saying that Israel has deployed surface to surface missiles in the Gaza strip in what appears to be a prelude to a wide ranging military operation in the Gaza Strip in the context of its on-going current military escalation.. More