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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Ukraine Appears to Retreat on Missile Denial

    SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Ukraine appeared to concede for the first time on Friday that its military might have accidentally shot down a Russian airliner over the Black Sea, where rough conditions were hampering salvage operations.As darkness fell, trawlers and other vessels were combing the seas with nets for debris to try to unravel the mystery mid-air.. More

  • Fatah leader rejects ceasefire call

    GAZA, Palestine, BBC-A key factional leader has rejected the latest call by the Palestinian authority for a united commitment to a ceasefire with Israel.The influential Marwan Bargouthi, who leads Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement in the West Bank, said it was the right of Palestinians to defend themselves. (Photo) The news came as Palestinian.. More

  • Taliban Dealt Body Blow by Pakistan

    KABUL (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban were dealt a potentially fatal body blow on Thursday when neighbor Pakistan said it had seen enough evidence to justify an indictment in the suicide plane attacks on the United States.With Washington on a war footing in pursuit of chief suspect Osama bin Laden, the Taliban held a special.. More

  • Sharon Accuses Washington of Appeasing Arabs At the Expense of Israel

    JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon aimed unusually harsh words at the United States Thursday after a string of Palestinian Resistance attacks, urging Washington not to ``appease'' Arab states at Israel's expense.Sharon stopped just short of cancelling a U.S.-backed cease-fire, but said that Israeli security forces would do whatever.. More

  • Muslim, Christian Leaders Set Up Cooperation Group

    ROME (Reuters) - Christian and Muslim leaders attending a peace conference in Rome agreed on Thursday to set up a contact group to work out how religions can cooperate to promote understanding and campaign against terrorism. The contact group was set up at the end of a two-day meeting hosted by the Sant' Egidio Community, a group that promotes peace.. More

  • Russia Plane Explosion Kills 76

    ADLER, Russia (AP) - A Russian airliner carrying at least 76 people from Israel exploded and plunged into the Black Sea on Thursday, raising fears of a terrorist attack. But U.S. officials said a missile fired during Ukrainian military exercises apparently downed the plane.Russian President Vladimir Putin said terrorists may have caused the crash and.. More

  • Western Commandos in Afghanistan

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Burhanuddin Rabbani, president of the internationally recognized Afghan government, said Western special forces were already operating inside Taliban-controlled areas of Afghanistan, an Iranian newspaper said Wednesday. (Read photo caption below) There have been a number of unconfirmed reports of elite U.S. and British commando units.. More

  • Musharraf Discusses Afghan Gov't

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - In a clear warning to the United States and Russia, Pakistan's president said Wednesday that no government could successfully replace the Taliban in Afghanistan if it were imposed from abroad. (Read photo caption) At the same time, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said any new Afghan government must be ``broad-based'' and.. More

  • Macedonian Plan to Reoccupy Albanian Zones Rocks Truce

    SKOPJE (Islamweb & News Agencies) - International officials brokering peace in Macedonia appealed to the government to drop plans to redeploy police unilaterally into Albanianregions on Thursday, warning that the move could ignite new violence. (Read photo caption below) The peace process stumbled into crisis on Wednesday when the nationalist interior.. More