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  • Israel Defies U.S. Over West Bank Raids

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israel defied its closest ally the United States Tuesday by rebuffing Washington's demands to pull back from its broadest military offensive against the Palestinian Authority.Washington, which hopes an end to fighting would boost Arab support for its military strikes in Afghanistan, Monday jacked up its previously.. More

  • IRA in arms breakthrough

    BELFAST, Northern Ireland (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The Irish Republican Army announced Tuesday that it has begun to disarm for the first time, saying it wants to prevent the collapse of the fragile peace process after monthsThere was no immediate word on the number of weapons being put out of use or the method. The IRA was implementing a plan accepted.. More

  • Taliban Accuses the United States of Genocide

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Accusing the United States of "genocide" the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan said Monday that U.S. aircraft had bombed a hospital in the western city of Herat, killing up to 100 people. (Photo-coutesy: Al-Jazeera TV Satellite Station)"It is now clear that America plans on intentionally targeting the.. More

  • Taliban Say Wreckage of Crashed Helicopter Found

    KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said Monday they had found the wreckage of a crashed helicopter in southern Helmand province as well as indications two other helicopters had come in to try to remove it.``Yesterday, a crashed helicopter was found in the Registan area of Helmand province on the border with (Pakistan's) Baluchistan,''.. More

  • Musharraf Urges End to Afghan Bombing by Ramadan

    WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf warned Monday that if U.S.-led attacks on Afghanistan extended into the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, they would have a negative effect in the Muslim world. (Read photo caption below) With the start of Ramadan in mid-November approaching, Musharraf appealed for an end to.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Forces, Palestinians Battle in West Bank

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israeli occupation troops and Palestinian Palestinian Resistance menbattled in Bethlehem Monday as international envoys urged Palestinian President Yasser Arafatto ``combat terrorism'' and Israel to pull its forces out of West Bank cities. Stoking Middle East tensions further, Lebanese Hizbollah Resistance menattacked.. More

  • WTO Says Learned from Seattle Mistakes

    DOHA, Qatar (Islamweb & News Agencies) - This week's gathering of global trade ministers will not fall into the traps that led to the collapse of the Seattle conference, the head of the World Trade Organization said Thursday. ``We have learned a lot out of Seattle,'' WTO Director-General Mike Moore told reporters as ministers began arriving in Doha.. More

  • CIA Reportedly Gets Authority to Hunt Down Bin Laden

    WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - President Bush last month gave the CIA it broadest authority yet to conduct lethal covert action against Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network, The Washington Post reported in its Sunday edition. The newspaper, quoting unidentified senior government officials, said Bush signed an order, known as an intelligence.. More

  • Taleban leader's son killed

    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, (BBC)-An Afghan doctor has confirmed to the BBC that the son of the Taleban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has been killed in the US-led air strikes.(Read photo caption below) The 10-year-old boy died from his injuries after the first night of bombing raids on the Taleban stronghold of Kandahar, according to Doctor Abdul Bari. Dr.. More

  • APEC Muslim Member States Block US Efforts to Make Group's Final Statement Directly Refer To its War in Afganistan

    SHANGHAI, China (Islamweb & News Agencies) -- Leaders from across the Pacific Rim meeting at the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Shanghai have signed what they say is a "visionary" statement against terrorism.However their final statement has failed to contain direct reference to the US war in Afghanistan. The Bush administration.. More

  • Two Palestinians Killed in Fighting Near Bethlehem

    BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israel's army held on to positions in and around six Palestinian West Bank cities Sunday in its broadest offensive in a year of uprising agaisnt Israeli occupation sparking fresh fighting in which two more Palestinians were killed. A Palestinian civilian and a police officer were killed and at least.. More

  • Palestinian Authority "Outlaws" PFLP Armed Wing

    GAZA CITY, (Islamweb & News Agencies) -The Palestnian Authority on Sunday outlawed the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) which claimed responsibility for the assassination of Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi. In a statement published in Gaza City, the Palestinian High council on national security declared as.. More

  • US postal worker diagnosed with respiratory anthrax

    WASHINGTON,(Islamweb & News Agencies) -A US postal employee in Washingtonwas in serious but stable condition Sunday after being infected with inhalation anthrax, making him the ninth person to fall prey to the sometimes-deadly bacteria. (Read photo caption below) A spokesman for the Inova Fairfax Hospital in Virginia said the man, an employee at the.. More

  • Putin Holds Talks with Afghan Opposition Head

    DUSHANBE (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in ex-Soviet Tajikistan early on Monday to meet a senior leader of the opposition of neighboring Afghanistan. Putin arrived in the Tajik capital just past 3 a.m. after attending a 21-nation Asian summit in the Chinese city of Shanghai and was met by the Central Asian country's.. More

  • US attacks Taleban front line

    NORTHERN, Afghanistan, (Islamweb & News Agencies)-US aircraft have bombed Taleban front-line positions north of the Afghan capital Kabul, in the first verified strike of its kind. (Read photo caption below) A local opposition commander said the planes had targeted Taleban positions around the Bagram airfield, and there were reports of attacks near Darra-e.. More