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  • Rocket Fire and Car Blast Rock Mideast after Deadly Gaza Raid

    Defiant Palestinian resistance activists fired rockets into Israel after 11 Palestinians were murdered in a massive raid into Gaza, while in the West Bank a resistance man was killed in a car blast blamed on Israel.And in Nablus, the major city in the north of the reoccupied West Bank, two Palestinians were shot dead in a major Israeli sweep of the.. More

  • 302 Iranian Soldiers Die in Plane Crash

    An Iranian military plane carrying 302 members of the elite Revolutionary Guards crashed in the mountains of southeastern Iran on Wednesday, killing all on board in the country's worst plane crash ever, state-run media reported. The plane was en route from Zahedan, on the Pakistan border, to Kerman, about 500 miles southeast of Tehran, state-run Tehran.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Forces Battle Resistance Activists in Gaza

    Israeli occupationtanks and occupation soldiers battled Palestinian resistance activists in the streets of Gaza City before dawn Wednesday in violence that left 11 Palestinians dead, including a resistance bomber who tried to blow up a tank, Palestinians said. The Israeli occupation forces said they were targeting Palestinian metal workshops that manufacture.. More

  • U.N. Inspectors Visit Iraqi Rocket Plants

    U.N. weapons inspectors hunted for banned Iraqi missiles on Wednesday, visiting at least three sites involved in making rockets and their components. The United Nationshas not yet said whether it will insist that Iraq modify its Al Samoud 2 missiles, whose range has been found to exceed the 94-mile limit imposed by U.N. resolutions, or will require.. More

  • US, UK Ponder Resolution to Placate Anti-War Camp

    Washington warned its reluctant ally Turkey time was fast running out to agree on the deployment on its soil of an Iraq invasion force of U.S. troops, as the two states wrangled over the size of a multi-billion-dollar aid package for Ankara. The strength of the anti-war mood was clear in a debate at the United Nations, where country after country spoke.. More

  • Israelis Kill 7 Palestinians in Gaza Raid

    Backed by helicopter gunfire, dozens of Israeli tanks rolled into Gaza City late Tuesday, setting off clashes with Palestinians that left seven Palestinians dead and 20 wounded, Palestinian hospital officials said. The incursion, the second in Gaza in as many days, was part of a crackdown after the resistance Islamic group Hamas blew up a tank over.. More

  • Nations Speak at U.N. against Rush to War

    While the United States and Britain worked on a new resolution that would authorize military action in Iraq, many countries spoke out Tuesday against a rush to war and demanded more weapons inspections to disarm Baghdad peacefully. Speaking on behalf of 115 mainly developing countries in the Non-Aligned Movement, South Africa urged the Security Council.. More

  • Bush Sticks to His Guns on Iraq

    President Bush said Tuesday mass global protests had not deflected him from his determination to disarm Iraq by force if necessary, either with or without a new U.N. resolution. "Evidently some in the world don't view (Iraqi President Saddam Hussein as a risk to peace. I respectfully disagree," Bush told reporters as Washington ordered 28,000 more troops.. More

  • Israeli Ground, Air Raids Hit Gaza City

    Israeli troops and tanks backed by attack helicopter pushed into Palestinian resistance strongholds in and around Gaza City Tuesday, exchanging fire with resistance men in the latest surge of Middle East violence. In Shajaiyeh, a district east of Gaza City identified with the resistance group Islamic Jihad; fighters in black balaclavas and camouflage.. More

  • Iraq Makes Key Concession as West Remains Divided Over War

    Baghdad stepped up concessions to UN arms inspectors in its latest bid to show full compliance as debate swirled in the West over whether -- and when -- diplomacy should cede to military action against President Saddam Hussein.A U2 spy plane overflew Iraq on Monday, a week after Baghdad made the concession as the burden of proof that Saddam is not concealing.. More

  • Closely Watched Verdict Due in First Sept 11 Trial

    The first trial of an alleged September 11 conspirator ends on Wednesday when a Moroccan man hears whether German judges acquit or jail him for up to 15 years, a ruling seen as a test for other al Qaeda prosecutions. Mounir El Motassadeq, a 28-year-old electrical engineering student, is charged with being an accessory to 3,045 murders in New York and.. More

  • Hamas Activist Dies in Israeli Raid

    Israeli occupation troops killed a Hamas activist in a West Bank raid Tuesday as part of its new offensive against the Islamic resistance group, and arrested three Palestinian women suspected of planning to carry out resistance bombings. Hamas is threatening to unleash more attacks on Israelis in retaliation for the deaths of eight members of its military.. More

  • EU Warns Iraq War Possible if No Cooperation

    HIGHLIGHTS|| Germany Won't Support or Participate in War, Says Schroeder|| European Mini-crisis over, Says Chirac|| However, Analysts Believe Transatlantic Rift Could Reopen Over How Much Time Iraq Should be Given to Disarm|| France & Britain Bicker over Second UN Resolution on Iraq|| A Shy EU Appeal to Reinvigorate the Mideast Peace Process|| Iraq.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Forces Kill 14 Palestinians over the Past Two Days

    Israeli undercover troops hiding in a van loaded with vegetables killed a top Hamas resistance leader in a roadside ambush Monday, and another group of occupation soldiers blew up the house of a suspected Hamas bomb maker and fatally shot two Palestinians in a separate operation. The occupation army actions came as Israeli leaders pledged a crackdown.. More

  • N. Korea Threatens to Scrap Korean War Armistice

    Communist North Korea threatened on Tuesday to abandon its commitment to the entire 1953 Korean War armistice if sanctions such as a naval blockade are imposed on it because of its suspected nuclear weapons ambitions.War warnings and comments the United States is poised to attack the North have been almost daily fare in Pyongyang's official media since.. More