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  • CNN: Kandahar Airport Command Destroyed by Strike

    KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. attacks have destroyed the command base at the airport of Kandahar, the southern Afghan stronghold of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, CNN reported Sunday. CNN quoted a senior local official as confirming the strike on the airport command center. In Kabul, an eyewitness said that the U.S. bombs or rockets had struck near.. More

  • Britain Confirms Involvement in Afghan Strikes

    LONDON (Reuters) - British forces are involved in strikes against Afghanistan alongside the United States, a spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair's office said Sunday. ``We can confirm that British forces are engaged in the military action that has begun against targets in Afghanistan,'' the spokesman said. Blair was expected to make a statement.. More

  • Afghan Opposition Claims Gains in Fighting

    WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Anti-Taliban forces on horseback attacked tanks in northern Afghanistanas U.S. airstrikes hit caves and vehicles and fighting raged near the key crossroads city of Mazar-i-Sharif, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.(Read photo caption below)The month-old U.S.-led bombing campaign was focused on that patch of rugged.. More

  • Bush Phoned Putin Before Afghan Attack

    MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Bush phoned his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putinto inform him about the military attack on Afghanistanshortly before the offensive took place, a top Kremlin aide said Sunday. ``Bush informed the president of the beginning of the operations. He did this before the attack began,'' Sergei Prikhodko, Putin's chief foreign.. More

  • Palestinian Resistance Bomber Kills Israeli

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb& News Agencies) - A Palestinian Resistancebomber killed an Israeli Sunday, dealing a further blow to a fragile cease-fire as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon tried to mend a rift with the United States by saying he regretted the dispute. In the latest violence, Israeli police said, a Palestinian blew up himself and a local man.. More

  • Afghan Capital Under Attack for 3rd Time - Witness

    KABUL (Reuters) - Anti-aircraft fire opened up for a third time over the Afghan capital early on Monday morning as residents heard planes roaring overhead, witnesses said. (Read photo caption below) ``You could hear a plane, or planes and then there was the reply of guns,'' one witness said. ``It was not clear if more bombs were being dropped. It.. More

  • Zia Set to Be Next Bangladesh PM

    DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Khaleda Zia prepared to form a new government Thursday after her four-party coalition gained an overwhelming two-thirds majority in parliamentary elections.Her rival, former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said the vote was ``fake and manipulated'' and demanded a new election. Foreign observers said, however, that the election.. More

  • Five More Palestinians Killed in Hebron

    HEBRON, West Bank (Islamweb & Newsk Agencies) - Fresh fighting has left five more Palestinians killed in Hebron, Al-Khalil as the United States directed a rare public rebuke at Ariel Sharon on Friday after the Israeli prime minister warned Washington not to appease Arab states.Sharon's staff issued conciliatory statements after a U.S. spokesman condemned.. More

  • Kabul Calm as Taliban Enemies Gather Inside and Out

    KABUL (Reuters) - Residents of the Afghan capital attended prayers on Friday, ignoring a whirl of diplomatic and military activity on their borders that pointed to a U.S. strike against Osama bin Laden and a trap for his Taliban protectors.Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld won permission from Uzbekistan to use an airbase for troops and aircraft while.. More

  • Schroeder, Jospin Say Inequality Breeds Terrorism

    PARIS (Reuters) - Rich countries should aim to ease the global economic inequalities that act as a breeding ground for terrorism, French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said on Friday. Speaking at a Franco-German discussion forum in Paris, the two left-leaning leaders said more initiatives like the 1999 agreement.. More

  • An American is Killed in Saudi Explosion

    KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - A bomb blast on Saturday killed two foreigners including an American in the eastern Saudi city of Khobar, site of a deadly attack five years ago in which 19 U.S. servicemen died. (Map) In Washington, U.S. officials said they saw no immediate link with last month's attacks on New York City and Washington for which Saudi-born.. More

  • Afghan Guns Open Fire on Plane Over Kabul

    KABUL (Reuters) - Anti-aircraft guns opened fire on at least one plane high in the sky over the Afghan capital on Saturday, and a Defense Ministry official said the army was trying to shoot down a second unidentified aircraft. (Read photo caption below) Firing was intense for about 15 minutes from anti-aircraft batteries around Kabul and was directed.. More

  • Taliban Threaten to Attack Uzbekistan if Aids U.S.

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Officials of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban on Saturday threatened to attack Uzbekistan if it allowed U.S. forces to attack Afghanistan from Uzbek territory, Taliban-run radio reported. ``We will attack Uzbekistan if any attack is launched from its borders,'' Radio Voice of Shariat quoted officials as telling a rally in Hairaton,.. More

  • Britain's Blair-'Trap Is Being Set' for Bin Laden

    LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Saturday that plans were in place for a military strike against Afghanistan's ruling Taliban. ``Things are coming into place, although obviously the timing on any such action is a matter we must discuss with our close allies,'' Blair told reporters as he returned to Britain after a whirlwind.. More

  • US Deploys Ground Troops

    TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) - President Islam Karimov granted permission Friday for U.S. warplanes and troops to use an Uzbek air base to support President Bush's campaign to root out terrorists in neighboring Afghanistan. The Army dispatched 1,000 infantry soldiers skilled at search-and-rescue, humanitarian missions and helicopter assaults.The deal struck.. More