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  • N. Irish Peace Hopes Stagger on

    WESTON PARK, England (Reuters) - Northern Ireland peace hopes staggered on with British Prime Minister Tony Blairreporting progress but no breakthrough on Saturday in crisis talks with rival Protestant and Roman Catholic politicians.Under the threat of growing violence and an August deadline for governing the British province, Blair said the latest.. More

  • World Criticizes Israel

    WASHINGTON, (Islamweb & Agencies) -The United States at last joined an international callfor an immediate halt to Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes, condemning the practice as "highly provocative" and a blow to a fragile truce."Actions such as these demolitions are highly provocative, they undermine confidence and trust between the parties,".. More

  • Israeli Experts Play Down Prospects for War with Syria

    JERUSALEM, (Islamweb & Agencies) -Chances of war are low between Israel and its regional foes Syria and the Lebanese Shiite Resistance men ofHezbollah, despite escalating skirmishes on the Israeli-Lebanese border, said members of Israel's leading think-tanks Tuesday."There is always the danger of miscalculation, but the probability is very low," said.. More

  • Assad in Germany

    BERLIN, (Islamweb & Agencies) -German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said after meeting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Berlin Tuesday that the Mitchell Report, which calls for a freeze on Israeli settlements, was the "central instrument" towards reaching peace in the Middle East.But Assad did not mention the Mitchell report, saying instead at a joint.. More

  • CPT-Russia Clash over Chechnya

    STRASBOURG, 10 (Islamweb & Agencies) -The Council of Europe has again clashed with Russia over Chechnya, accusing Moscow of covering up its forces' widespread brutality against detainees in the war-torn breakaway province, including summary executions. In a condemnation of rare virulence, the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture.. More

  • Srebrenica Anniversary

    POTOCARI, Bosnia-Herzegovina, (AFP) -Authorities have prepared massive security measures to prevent inter-ethnic violence on the sixth anniversary Wednesday of the Srebrenica massacre, one of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II.(Read photo caption below). UN spokesman in Sarajevo Douglas Coffman said that some 1,300 Bosnian Serb police,.. More

  • 25 Killed in Kashmir Gunbattles

    SRINAGAR, India-ruled Kashmir (Islamweb & Agencies) - Twenty-five people - six soldiers, 18 Resistance men, and one civilian - were killed in skirmishes in Jammu-Kashmiron Tuesday as India pressed an offensive against Islamic Resistance groups. India began the offensive in May after the end of a so-calle six-month unilateral cease-fire. Since then,.. More

  • More Israeli Brutalities As Deadlock Continues

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & Agencies) -A doctor said that a Palestinian woman in labor was barred from passing an Israeli military checkpoint for an hour, giving birth in her car to a baby boy who died before reaching a medical clinic. In another checkpoint confrontation, an Israeli soldier shot and killed a Palestinian woman. Meanwhile, 26 Palestinian families.. More

  • Syria Discusses Mideast With German Leaders

    BERLIN, (Islamweb & Agencies) -Syria's Foreign Minister Faruq al-Shara on Wednesday demanded Israel return the Golan Heights, as President Bashar al-Assad met his German counterpart Johannes Rau and Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer.Assad did not speak to reporters, but Fischer said after their talks that an end to confrontational rhetoric would help.. More

  • Frightened Israeli Settlers are Leaving Promised Land

    HERMESH, West Bank, (Islamweb & Agencies) - The roughly 200 residents of a tiny internationally illegal Jewish settlement in the northern West Bankare now openly admitting that they are scared.Some are seriously planning to leave. "Nobody here can tell you he is not scared," says Eli Pasternak, a 30-year-old electrician who is married and has a 10-year-old.. More

  • The Hezbollah Video Bungle

    NEW YORK, THE UNITED NATIONS- (Islamweb & Agencies)- The United Nations has opened an internal investigation into what it described as the "mishandling" of a videotape that may provide clues about the abduction of Israeli soldiers by theLebanese Islamic Resistance group Hezbollah. (Read photo caption). After months of denying the existence of the footage,.. More

  • 15 Killed in Kashmir Ahead of Agra Summit

    SRINAGAR, INDIAN-RULED KASHMIR (Islamweb & Agencies) - Fifteen people including the brother a member of the Indian parliament and 11 Muslim Resistance men have been killed in Kashmir where violence has continued in the run-up to a weekend India-Pakistan summit.Bloody clashes between the Resistanceand Indian occupation forces have erupted across the.. More

  • Moslems Mark Srebrenica Massacre

    POTOCARI, Bosnia (Islamweb & Agencies) - More than 3,000 Bosnian Muslims guarded by U.S. peacekeepers prayed in a meadow near Srebrenica on Wednesday for thousands of compatriots killed by Serb forces in Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two.U.S. troops as well as local Serb police were out in force along the road to Srebrenica and near the old.. More

  • Pakistan Spurns Indian Call for Military Meeting

    ISLAMABAD (Islamweb& Agencies) - Pakistan on Monday turned down an Indian proposal that their senior military officers meet on Tuesday and said such a contact could be made only after the July 14-16 summit between the two nuclear-capable rivals. A foreign ministry spokesman, quoted by state-run Radio Pakistan, said Pakistan's position on the matter.. More

  • Hezbollah May Regard U.N. as Spies

    BEIRUT, Lebanon (Islamweb& Agencies) - The leader of the Lebanese Islamic Resistance group, Hezbollah said Monday that U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon will be considered spies if the world body shows Israel a videotape filmed after last year's capture of three Israeli soldiers. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, speaking at a conference of Arab political.. More