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  • Fatah Urges Genuine Israeli Pullout

    Yasir Arafat's Fatah faction has accused Israel of deliberately impeding Egyptian efforts to secure peaceful governance of Gaza after the planned Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territory. Fatah officials told Aljazeera.net neither the Palestinian Authority nor resistance factions could guarantee that security and stability would prevail in the.. More

  • US Military Toll in Afghanistan Rising

    Three American soldiers have been killed in eastern Afghanistan this week, the US military says. A statement by the US military said two soldiers had died in fighting near the Pakistan border in Paktika on Monday. A third was killed on the same day in a separate incident in neighbouring Paktia province while on patrol, it said. Paktia and Paktika.. More

  • UK Captive's Brother Appeals to Officials

    Vowing not to remain silent as "instructed", the brother of a British captive threatened with execution in Iraq has accused the UK government of not doing enough to save the situation. In an interview with Aljazeera.net, Paul Bigley, 54, said he would not be quiet over the "frustrating" situation he and his family are in, despite the British Foreign.. More

  • Storm Floods Kill more than 600 in Haiti

    Rescuers dug through mud and ruined homes for bodies Tuesday, expecting the death toll of more than 600 from Tropical Storm Jeanne to rise even further, with half the crowded northern city of Gonaives still under water from the weekend's devastating winds and rain. Gonaives was hardest hit in the latest tragedy to beset Haiti in a year of revolts,.. More

  • Syria Redeploys its Troops in Lebanon

    Syrian forces have reportedly begun redeploying from the outskirts of Lebanon's capital Beirut towards the eastern Syrian-Lebanese border. Lebanese officials said Syrian troops deployed in Damur village just south of Beirut and Aramun to the east began withdrawing towards the eastern Bekaa Valley on Tuesday. They said Syrian forces would at a later.. More

  • US Lifts Embargo on Libya

    The US has formally lifted its trade embargo on Libya to reward Tripoli for giving up weapons of mass destruction. The action is largely symbolic as Washington suspended most commercial sanctions in April, allowing US companies to invest in Libya and to buy its oil for the first time since 1986. However, the country remains on America's terrorist.. More

  • US to Sell Israel 5000 'Smart' Bombs

    The United States will reportedly sell Israel nearly 5000 smart bombs in one of the largest weapons deals between the allies in years. The deal could face political controversy since Israel has used such bombs against the Palestinians. In one such instance in July 2002, a one-tonne bomb meant for a senior Palestinian resistance fighter also killed.. More

  • Senior Sunni Clerics Assassinated in Iraq

    Two senior members of an influential Islamic authority in Iraq, the Association of Muslim Scholars, have been assassinated. In the first incident, the body of Shaikh Hazim al-Zaidi was found in front of al-Sajjad mosque in Sadr City, a mainly Shia area in eastern Baghdad on Monday, an AMS spokesman told Aljazeera. There are reports he was abducted.. More

  • Hamas Chief Wary of Israeli Pullout

    Hamas leader Khalid Mishaal has said Palestinian factions will only agree on a united political programme after the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. In an interview with Aljazeera from Cairo on Sunday night, Mishaal said "when the enemy withdraws from Gaza, we, as Palestinian factions, will agree on a programme and reach a unified position.. More

  • US Troops Killed in Afghanistan

    Two US soldiers have been killed in a gun battle in south-eastern Afghanistan, the US military has said. Six Afghan and two other American troops were wounded in the exchange, in the province of Paktika. Meanwhile Nematullah Shahrani, one of President Karzai's four deputies, has escaped an apparent assassination bid. The attacks come amid security.. More

  • Floods from Tropical Storm Kill 90 in Haiti

    Floods and mudslides from Tropical Storm 'Jeanne' killed about 90 people in Haiti and more were missing in the Caribbean nation on Sunday as the storm swirled in the Atlantic east of the Bahamas, a civil protection official said. 'Jeanne' previously killed 11 people and destroyed hundreds of houses in the Dominican Republic, which shares the island.. More

  • Killer Armed with Hammer on Loose in London

    British police said yesterday that the brutal murders of two young women and four cases of assault across London were linked, sparking fears of a serial hammer killer operating in the capital. Frenchwoman Amelie Delagrange, 22, was bludgeoned to death near a cricket pitch in the southwest London suburb of Twickenham in August. And Marsha McDonnell,.. More

  • Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian in Gaza

    A member of the Palestinian resistance group Islamic Jihad has been shot and killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli soldiers, while in the West Bank occupation troops have surrounded the town of Janin. Abd Al-Karim Abu Lihya, 20, was killed and three other fellow fighters were wounded in Gaza on Sunday as they reportedly tried to plant explosives near.. More

  • More Iraqis Killed in New US Air Strike

    A US air strike has killed four people and left five wounded in Falluja, hospital sources say, while a large offensive against the city is being planned, a US newspaper reports. The US military said a strike was carried out at 1830 GMT on a checkpoint in northern Falluja. "Four people were killed and five wounded," said Dr Ali Hiad Mashalani at Falluja.. More

  • Iran Given Deadline for Nuclear Freeze

    The governing board of the UN atomic watchdog agency has demanded that Iran freeze all work on uranium enrichment and said it would judge Tehran's compliance in two months. Approved unanimously by delegates at the 35-nation board meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency on Saturday, the toughly worded resolution said the board "considers.. More