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  • US Condemns Deadly Gaza Raid

    Washington has attacked Israel's latest deadly raid in the Gaza Strip, condemning the "increasing use" of house demolitions as a means combating Palestinian militant attacks. Eight Palestinians, including a 13-year-old boy, were killed during an Israeli onslaught in a refugee camp at Bureij, in central Gaza, on Monday, the second raid in as many days... More

  • South Asia Al-Qaeda Interrogation 'Yields Results'

    Pakistan says the interrogation of the alleged senior al-Qaeda figure, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has begun to produce results. Pakistan's interior minister, Faisal Saleh Hayat, said the suspect is co-operating with interrogators and that his information is being acted upon. He predicted there would be "significant developments" but gave no details. On.. More

  • Islamic Leaders Mount Last-ditch Bid to Avert War on Iraq

    Leaders from Islamic nations gather for an emergency summit in yet another 11th-hour bid by a regional organization to convince the United States to forgo plans to invade and occupy Iraq. The meeting of the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) comes soon after those of the Non-Aligned Movement and the Arab League, and summit organizers.. More

  • US Mulls Alternate War Plans

    The United States is pressing ahead with plans for a possible invasion of Iraq, a day after US and British planes launched a raid, which Baghdad said killed six people. Sunday night's air strike in the southern province of Basra marked an escalation in military action against Iraq. The US Defence Department says it has expanded the number of military.. More

  • N. Korean MiGs Intercept U.S. Air Force Plane

    Four North Korean fighter jets intercepted a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance plane in international airspace over the Sea of Japan on Sunday and came within 50 feet of the big American jet while shadowing it, the Pentagon said on Monday. Two advanced MiG-29 fighters and two others believed to be MiG-23s intercepted the sophisticated four-engine RC-135.. More

  • Gulf Ministers Defer Saddam Exile Plan

    A meeting of Gulf ministers failed Monday to endorse a proposal by the United Arab Emirates calling on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to step down in a last-ditch effort to avoid a U.S.-led war on Iraq. "It is a very important initiative, but we have to discuss it further. ... This has to be discussed among all the Arab states to see how this can be.. More

  • Hamas Founder Arrested by Israeli Occupation Troops

    Israeli occupation troops raiding a Gaza refugee camp arrested a Hamas founder Monday, targeting the political leadership of the Islamic resistance group for the first time in 29 months of fighting. Eight Palestinians, among them a pregnant woman, were killed in clashes in the camp. Occupation troops also blew up four homes in the Bureij camp, including.. More

  • Libya Summons Ambassador to Riyadh

    Libya is to recall its ambassador to Riyadh for consultations following Saturday's Arab summit clash between Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi and Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, an official statement said Monday.The statement said the decision was taken by the Libyan parliament, the General People's Congress, which expressed its "discontent'.. More

  • Iraq Hands More Ammunition to Anti-War Camp

    Iraq destroyed a second batch of banned missiles and Turkey held up the Pentagon's battle plans, handing more ammunition to France and other countries opposed to any U.S.-led rush to war against Baghdad. Baghdad made the destruction of its arsenal of some 120 al-Samoud 2 missiles, expected to take two weeks, a key test of world opinion on its cooperation.. More

  • 3 Arab Nations Call for Saddam to Resign

    The United Arab Emirates won support Sunday from several Gulf nations in its call for Saddam Hussein to quit power to avert a war, while Iraq poured scorn on the Emirates, calling it a tool of Israel. The king of Bahrain said he backs the call for Saddam to go, according to the Emirates state news agency. Kuwait's Cabinet also backed the measure, the.. More

  • 8 Killed in Israeli Incursion into Gaza

    Israeli occupation troops entered the Nusseirat and Bureij refugee camps in the central part of the Gaza Strip early Monday, witnesses said, killing eight people and destroying two houses. The incursion followed pledges by Israeli officials to crack down on resistance activists from the Palestinian resistance Hamas group. The Israeli occupation armywould.. More

  • U.S. Wary As Iraq Destroys More Missiles

    U.N. weapons inspectors returned to a military compound Sunday to supervise the disposal of more outlawed Al Samoud 2 rockets, an Iraqi official said. The destruction of the missiles started Saturday, when bulldozers crushed four Al Samoud 2 missiles, meeting a U.N. demand in an attempt to prevent a U.S.-led attack. Washington, however, dismissed the.. More

  • Two Palestinians Killed in Israeli Raid in Gaza

    Israeli occupation forces killed two Palestinians and demolished homes in a tank and helicopter gunship raid in the Gaza Stripon Sunday which the occupationarmy said was aimed at curbing attacks on occupation troops and Jewish settlements. The occupation army carried out the operation in and around the town and refugee camp at Khan Younis hours before.. More

  • Pakistan Hands Sept. 11 Mastermind to U.S.

    After a decade on the run, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was in U.S. custody on Sunday in what U.S. officials hailed as the biggest catch so far in the global war on terror. Pakistani officials said Mohammed, branded by Washington as one of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's "most senior and significant lieutenants,".. More

  • Arab Summit Rejects Any Strike Against Iraq, Won’t Participate in War

    Arab leaders said they reject a war on Iraq and U.S. threats to remove Saddam Hussein, but their message Saturday was undermined by exchanges of insults and sharp divisions at a summit aimed at finding unity over the Iraq crisis. Near the close of the one-day summit, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah angrily insulted each.. More