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  • U.S. Conducts 9th Night of Afghan Air Raids

    KABUL (Islamweb & News Agencies) - U.S. planes pounded targets outside Afghanistan's capital Kabul once again early on Tuesday after Washington launched its heaviest daylight strikes so far to root out Osama bin Laden and punish his Taliban protectors.As a low-flying Air Force Special Forces AC-130 gunship concentrated its fire on targets in the Taliban.. More

  • India, Pakistan Exchange Fire as Powell Visits

    NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - India and Pakistan exchanged fire across the border in disputed Kashmir Monday as the U.S. secretary of state began a swing through the region, prompting Washington to ask the nuclear rivals ``to stand down.'' (Read photo caption below) A senior Indian army official said troops had launched heavy mortar bomb fire at Pakistani.. More

  • Musharraf, Powell See Some Future Role for Taliban

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and Secretary of State Colin Powell on Tuesday revived a stagnant relationship with agreement that any future Afghan government should include the opposition as well as Taliban members. ``Former king Zahir Shah, political leaders, moderate Taliban leaders, elements from the (opposition) Northern.. More

  • U.S. Jets Launch Heavy Airstrikes

    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - In the biggest daylight raids so far, U.S. jets pounded targets around Afghanistan's capital on Monday and attacked a military headquarters and suspected terrorist training camp near the eastern city of Jalalabad.Daylight raids opened with jets streaking across the dawn sky over Kabul, striking in the area of the airport and.. More

  • Hundreds Briefly Evacuated in London

    LONDON (AP) - Hundreds of people were evacuated from pubs and restaurants Saturday night after eight people reported feeling ill at a nearby north London rail station, police said. Sgt. Bob Alleway of the British Transport Police said officials did not believe there were any terrorist links to the incident and that no one was hospitalized. ``One of.. More

  • Israel Assassinates Another Hamas Islamic Resistance Leader in Blow for U.S.

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israeli occupation forces assassinated another Islamic Resistance leader Sunday, dealing a blow to Washington's drive to get Israel and the Palestinians to end a year-long conflict that threatens regional support for its anti-terror war. Israel renewed an internationally condemned track-and-kill policy to shoot.. More

  • One Killed, 12 Hurt in Anti-U.S. Pakistan Protests

    JACOBABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least one person was killed Sunday when Pakistan police shot into the air as they tried to disperse several thousand anti-American demonstrators in southern Jacobabad, witnesses said. The protesters, who had evaded a huge security cordon thrown up around the city, hurled stones, prompting paramilitary rangers and police.. More

  • Iraq Says U.S. and British Jets Bomb Southern Iraq

    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq said U.S. and British planes attacked targets in the south of the country on Saturday, but no casualties were reported. (Read map caption below) ``At 4 p.m. (9 a.m. EDT) U.S. and British warplanes carried out 11 sorties coming from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and flew over the provinces of Basra, Dhiqar, Muthanna and Meisan,''.. More

  • Taliban Gives Reporters War Zone Tour

    KARAM, Afghanistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Waving shovels and sticks, enraged villagers surged toward foreign journalists brought here Sunday by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia to see the devastation of a U.S. air attack. ``They are coming to kill us! They are coming for information, to tell the planes where to bomb!'' angry and terrified.. More

  • Airstrikes jolt Kandahar, Kabul

    KABUL/JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Islamweb & News Agencies)-Afghanistan was assessing the damage on Sunday after a seventh straight night of U.S. bombing raids, as the ruling Taliban defiantly snubbed U.S. demands to surrender Osama bin Laden. Waves of U.S. jets struck the capital Kabul and three other cities on Saturday night, hitting the darkened and.. More

  • Bush Rejects Taliban's Latest Conditional Offer to Handover Ben Laden

    WASHINGTON/KABUL (Reuters) - President Bushrejected a new offer from the Taliban to hand Osama bin Laden to a neutral country as U.S. planes slammed Afghanistan on Sunday and an anthrax scare continued, with more people in Florida and New York reported exposed to the bio-terrorism agent.In one of several signs Taliban forces were feeling the pressure,.. More

  • Blair Backs Viable Palestinian State

    LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Tony Blairsaid Monday that the formation of a Palestinian state was a key aim of the Middle East peace process.``A viable Palestinian state, as part of a negotiated and agreed settlement, which guarantees peace and security for Israel is the objective,'' Blair told a news conference in London after talks with.. More

  • Saudi Arabia Unhappy with U.S. Raids on Afghanistan

    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - U.S. ally Saudi Arabia said it was unhappy about the bombing of Afghanistan, sending the clearest signal yet that its relations with Washington are being tested by the war on terrorism.Interior Minister Prince Naif broke Saudi silence on the bombing late Sunday, telling reporters the kingdom opposed terrorism but did.. More

  • Lockerbie Trial Proceedings Begin

    CAMP ZEIST, Netherlands (AP) - A special Scottish court in the Netherlands opened an appeals hearing Monday for a Libyan intelligence agent convicted of mass murder for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing - a case that exposed the complexity of putting terrorism on trial.Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi was convicted Jan. 31 for planting the bomb that blew up Pan.. More

  • Israel Assassinates a Second Hamas Leader in as Many Days

    HEBRON, West Bank (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israeli occupation troops withdrew Monday from areas in volatile Hebron as part of truce efforts, and an Islamic Resistance leader was killed in another West Bank town in an explosion blamed on Israel. (Read photo caption below)The victim, Ahmed Marshoud, was a member of the Islamic militant group Hamas.. More