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  • Split Security Council Faces Fight to Avoid War

    With the United States on the brink of war with Iraq, undecided members of the U.N. Security Council struggled on Friday to find a way to unite the bitterly divided 15-member body and avert a military conflict. The United States, anxious to salvage from looming defeat a resolution authorizing military action against Baghdad, called a Sunday summit with.. More

  • Erdogan Made Turkey Premier, US Waits on Troops

    Ruling party leader Tayyip Erdogan was installed as Turkish prime minister Friday, keeping U.S. hopes alive that Turkey might approve deployment of American troops for an invasion of Iraq. But outgoing foreign minister Yasar Yakis indicated that any parliamentary vote on the U.S. troop deal would only occur after a government vote of confidence, meaning.. More

  • Israeli Occupation forces Kill 10 Islamic Activists

    Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank killed at least 10 suspected Islamic activists in two gun battles, one of them Friday morning in the battle-scarred Jenin refugee camp. Backed by helicopter gunships and tanks, Israeli occupation troops killed at least five resistance men from the Islamic Jihad group in a hideout in the camp. The occupation.. More

  • U.S., S.Korea Eye Diplomacy on North, Run War Games

    The United States and South Koreavowed to seek a diplomatic solution to the North Korean nuclear crisis as U.S. Stealth fighters and an aircraft carrier assembled in the South for annual exercises. In a telephone call to South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, President Bushrepeated his call for multilateral talks to end the standoff over the North's suspected.. More

  • Washington Considers Dropping U.N. Resolution

    Forced into a diplomatic retreat, U.S. officials said Thursday that President Bush might delay a vote on his troubled U.N. resolution or even drop it - and fight Iraq without the international body's backing. France dismissed a compromise plan as an "automatic recourse to war." Bush spent a fourth day on the telephone, consulting leaders of Britain,.. More

  • Iraq, Iran Agree to Release Prisoners

    Iraq said Thursday it would release hundreds of Iranian prisoners next week in a gesture seeking to build popular support ahead of a threatened U.S. attack. Iran said it would also be releasing hundreds of Iraqi prisoners, including some held captive since the 1980-88 war between the two countries. Details released in Baghdad and Tehran conflicted,.. More

  • Occupation Army Kills Five Palestinians Near Jenin & Two of its Own Near Hebron Al-Khalil

    Israeli occupation forces killed five Palestinian resistance men in a raid on their hideout, occupation army sources and witnesses said. In the village of Tamoun, south of the Palestinian-ruled city of Jenin, residents said five local resistance men had been killed in exchanges of fire with Israeli occupation troops. Two other Palestinians were wounded.. More

  • An Occupation Soldier & a Palestinian Resistance Man Killed as Israel Launches New West Bank Raids

    An Israeli occupation soldier and a Palestinian resistance man were killed in a gun battle near the West Bank city of Tulkarm on Wednesday in what the occupation army said was an ongoing series of Israeli raids in pursuit of resistance activists. Islamic Jihad, one of the main groups behind a wave of resistance bombings against Israelis during a 29-month-old.. More

  • Arab Visit to Baghdad Postponed

    An Arab peace mission aimed at preventing war in Iraq was in doubt Thursday after Egypt's news agency reported that its visit to Baghdad had been postponed. The delegation was to meet in Bahrain on Thursday with the king, Sheik Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, and then travel the following day to the Iraqi capital. Early Thursday, however, Egypt's Middle East.. More

  • Riyadh Hints U.S. Troops May Be Cut After War

    Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday it would work to maintain its long-standing ties with Washington, but hinted the number of U.S. troops based in the kingdom might be reduced after the Iraq crisis was over. The kingdom has repeatedly said it would not allow attacks on neighboring Iraq to be launched from its soil, and that several thousand U.S. airmen.. More

  • An Occupation Soldier & a Palestinian Resistance Man Killed as Israel Launches New West Bank Raids

    An Israeli occupation soldier and a Palestinian resistance man were killed in a gun battle near the West Bank city of Tulkarm on Wednesday in what the occupation army said was an ongoing series of Israeli raids in pursuit of resistance activists. Islamic Jihad, one of the main groups behind a wave of resistance bombings against Israelis during a 29-month-old.. More

  • Allies Smooth Over Iraq War Rift

    London and Washington are trying to patch up differences over Britain's role in any military action against Iraq. The UK has sought to dispel speculation that US troops might go to war with Iraq without British involvement. US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sparked confusion on Tuesday by saying that American forces were prepared to act without British.. More

  • Palestinian Killed in Israeli Raid

    Israeli occupation troops raided a suspected resistance group's hideout Wednesday, killing one Palestinian who fired at occupation soldiers, while Yasser Arafatmet with top officials to map out leadership changes in the Palestinian Authority. Occupation soldiers in the West Bank village of Saida stormed a hideout used by the resistance Islamic Jihad.. More

  • Serbian Prime Minister Is Assassinated

    Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic - a key leader of the revolt that toppled former President Slobodan Milosevicin October 2000 - was assassinated Wednesday by gunmen who ambushed him outside the government complex, police sources said. Djindjic died of his wounds in a Belgrade hospital after having been shot in the abdomen and back, the sources.. More

  • Arab Foreign Ministers Won't Ask Saddam to Step Down

    A committee of Arab foreign ministers scheduled to meet with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in the next few days will not ask him to step down from power in order to avoid a US attack, Egypt's Information Minister Safwat al-Sherif said. The committee was created after the Arab League summit in Sharm el-Sheikh on March 1 with the goal of presenting a.. More