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  • Bush Calls For an End to Violence againsnt US Muslims

    WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush visited a mosque and bought coffee for a cafeteria full of aides on Monday as he appealed to Americans to get back to everyday business and not turn against their Muslim neighbors. (Read photo caption below)In his socks, as is Muslim practice, Bush padded through the ornate mosque on Washington's Embassy Row and heard.. More

  • Intifadha Defies the Arrogance of Occupation Forces

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Fighting raged in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Monday despite new U.S.-led efforts to persuade Israel and the Palestinians to hold truce talks. (Read photo caption below)At least one Palestinian was killed and an Israeli occupation soldier seriously hurt -- the latest casualties in a year of a Palestinian intifadha,.. More

  • Macedonia Approves NATO Security Force

    SKOPJE (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Macedonia, bowing to European Union pressure, Monday approved the deployment of a modest NATO security force to shore up a precarious peace agreement with minority Albanians.(Read photo caption below) With a dispute over EU demands for a transitional NATO presence apparently resolved, Macedonia's reluctant parliament.. More

  • Truce Calls Revive Peace Hopes in the Middle East

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Fresh calls for a cease-fire spurred hope on Wednesday that Israel and the Palestinians were setting the stage for talks to end nearly a year of bloodshed.(Read photo caption below)But sporadic gunfire in parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip after new cease-fire orders on Tuesday underscored the challenges ahead.. More

  • UN Council Tells Afghanistan to Hand Over Bin Laden

    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Security Council members told Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on Tuesday to surrender Saudi-born millionaire Osama bin Laden ``immediately and unconditionally'' as called for in council resolutions. ``There is one and only one message the Security Council has for the Taliban: Implement United Nations Security Council resolutions,.. More

  • Hijack Suspect Met Iraqi Intelligence, Sources Say

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mohamed Atta, suspected of hijacking the first plane that struck the World Trade Center last week, had met earlier this year with an Iraqi intelligence official in Europe, U.S. sources said on Tuesday. Atta, a 33-year-old Egyptian, had studied at an engineering school in Hamburg, Germany, and took flying lessons in Florida. He.. More

  • Iran Argues for UN-Led Coalition Against Terror

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said Tuesday it would support any U.N.-led international coalition against terrorism, but cautioned against a U.S. military strike on Afghanistan. (Read photo caption below) A security official said Iranian forces were on alert along the Afghan border to turn away refugees in case of a U.S. assault on following last week's attacks.. More

  • Assad, Mubarak hold talks on terror crisis

    CAIRO,(AFP) -Syrian President Bashar al-Assad flew into Egypt on Tuesday for talks with his Egyptian counterpart, Hosni Mubarak, about the fallout from the terror attacks on the United States. Egypt's official news agency MENA said Mubarak greeted Assad, who arrived from visits to Saudi Arabia and Yemen, in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. They.. More

  • Pakistan Closes Capital Airport in Pre-Dawn Hours

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's army closed Islamabad International Airport to commercial flights for two and half hours before dawn on Friday for movement of military equipment, officials at the aviation regulatory body said.``It was a unscheduled closure...and there was some very intense movement of military hardware,'' a senior official of the Civil.. More

  • U.N. Delays Lifting Sudan Sanctions

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council has decided to delay a vote on lifting five-year-old sanctions on Sudan because of the terrorist attacks on the United States, diplomats said Thursday. France's U.N. Ambassador Jean-David Levitte, whose country holds the council presidency, said that Thursday's scheduled discussion on ending sanctions,.. More

  • Sharon calls off Arafat-Peres meeting, 3 Palestinians killed, 2 Israelis Injured

    JERUSALEM, (Islamweb & News Agencies) -Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called off the planned meeting between his Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as the intifadha against Israeli occupation in the territories claimed three more lives Friday and Saturday. The move temporarily ended weeks of preparations for the.. More

  • Powell Works on Global Alliance Against Attackers

    WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Secretary of State Colin Powell, seeking an alliance against those who attacked the United States this week, said on Friday Washington would now judge countries by their willingness to help.``This has become a new benchmark, a new way of measuring the relationship and what we can do together in the future and.. More

  • Bush authorizes call-up of reserves: Pentagon

    WASHINGTON, (AFP) -Declaring a national emergency in the wake of the worst attack on the United States in recent memory, President George W. Bush Friday approved the call-up of up to one million military reservists, Pentagon officials said. The Defense Department plans to immediately call 35,000 reservists to active duty for "homeland defense" and to.. More

  • Taliban Diplomat Says Bin Laden Free to Leave

    DUBAI (Reuters) - An Afghan Taliban diplomat said on Saturday that Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden, a prime suspect in the terror attacks on the United States, was free to leave Afghanistan but would not be forced out.``If the man wanted to leave of his own will, we will not stop him. But if he wanted to stay in Afghanistan, we cannot make him leave,''.. More

  • Feds Arrest Attacks Material Witness

    WASHINGTON (AP) - Law-enforcement authorities made their first arrest Friday in the worldwide investigation of this week's terrorist attacks, apprehending a suspect in New York thought to have relevant information.The suspect was arrested as a material witness in the World Trade Center attack, New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, told a.. More