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  • Anglo-American Raid Overshadows Inspections in Iraq

    Iraq mourned four dead after a Western bombing raid, overshadowing the fourth day of UN arms inspections, as Britain and the United States prepared to defend their tough line against Baghdad. Hundreds of US military personnel were meanwhile setting up a hi-tech command centre in Qatar for war games in the emirate as the Pentagon stepped up deployments.. More

  • US Special Forces Battling Armed Afghans Outside Shindand Air Base

    A mammoth B-52 bomber was called into combat for the first time in five months Sunday to protect U.S. special forces battling armed Afghans outside an American base. No U.S. soldiers were injured during the shootout in western Afghanistan, but at least 11 Afghans were killed in factional fighting, U.S. and local officials said. The battle began when.. More

  • Two Palestinians Dead in Israeli Raid in Gaza

    Israeli occupation troops raided a Palestinian-ruled town in the Gaza Stripon Sunday, killing two people and destroying a three-story apartment building in an operation to raze the family homes of Islamic resistance men, witnesses said. Residents of Beit Lahiya said 30 armored vehicles, backed by three helicopter gunships, rumbled into the town late.. More

  • U.N. experts probe farm airstrip as Iraq warns of plots

    U.N. arms experts visited an agricultural facility and a military industrial complex near Baghdad on Sunday, the fourth day of inspections in a hunt for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. A team of inspectors drove to an airstrip for small planes used in spraying pesticides on crops at Khan Bani Saad, some 30 kms northeast of the Iraqi capital. The.. More

  • Foreigners Taken Out of Ivory Coast City

    French troops evacuated foreigners Saturday from a rebel-held city in western Ivory Coast as loyalist troops headed toward the area with orders to oust the insurgents. Eighty-three of 160 foreigners seeking to leave the city of Man were flown south to Abidjan, the commercial capital of this former French colony. The others were expected to follow on.. More

  • Israeli Tanks Raid Gaza Town, Kill Man, Raze Homes

    Israeli occupation troops and tanks raided a Palestinian-ruled town in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing a local man during clashes and razing the family homes of three resistance activists before leaving, witnesses said. The incursion on Beit Lahiya came hours after Palestinian witnesses said occupation troops killed a teenager on the nearby border.. More

  • U.N. Experts Examine 'Sensitive' Iraqi Site

    U.N. arms inspectors examined two Iraqi military industrial plants and a "sensitive" army base Saturday, enforcing a resolution that gives Baghdad one last chance to disarm or face war. In a third day of inspections, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts spent three hours at the military complex run by the Public Company of the Mother of.. More

  • Qatar & Egypt on the Move on Palestinian & Iraqi Questions

    It has been announce In Amman that Egypt's foreign minister on Saturday urged America and other nations to help halt the Mideast violence, and said the international community had reacted weakly to Israeli attacks on Palestinians while in Cairo Qatari foreign minister, SH. Jassim Ben Hamad Al-Than conveyed a verbal message fro the Emir SH Hamad Ben.. More

  • Kenya Sees No Al Qaeda Link So Far with Detainees

    Kenya said on Saturday it had so far found no link between 12 people held over Thursday's attacks on Israelis in Mombasa and the al Qaeda network that some suspect was behind them, and two detainees were freed. U.S. officials said on Friday the top suspect for the blast at the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel in which 15 people including three attackers.. More

  • Palestinian, 16-years Old, Killed Near Gaza City

    A 16-year-old Palestinian boy was shot and killed Saturday on his way home from school east of Gaza city, and another was wounded, hospital officials said. Witnesses said Israeli occupation soldiers fired on the teenagers as they walked with a group of schoolchildren about 700 yards from an Israeli occupation army outpost at the Karni Crossing between.. More

  • U.N. weapons experts resume inspections in Iraq

    U.N. arms inspectors enforcing a resolution giving Iraq a last chance to disarm or face war examined a military industrial complex and a suspected missile site on Saturday as they resumed work after a one-day break. In a third day of inspections, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts spent three hours at the military complex run by the.. More

  • Kenya Probe Focuses on Somali Militants

    United States officials say they believe a Somali-based Islamic group may have carried out Thursday's twin attacks on Israeli targets in the Kenyan city of Mombasa. The officials say the group, Al-Ittihad al-Islamiya (AIAI), also known as the Islamic Union, is a prominent militant organisation in the Horn of Africa with links to Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda.. More

  • Mideast Peace Plan May Miss Target Date

    HIGHLIGHTSUprising Comes Under Increasing Criticism by Palestinian Officials & Citizens|| Ahmed Qureia Calls for a 'Popular-unarmed Intifadha Instead|| Two Aqsa Martyrs Brigade Resistance Men Have Been Killed During an Attack on an Internationally Illegal Settlement in the Gaza Strip|| Occupation Troops Arrest Majid Masri of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.. More

  • Tens of Thousands March in Solidarity with Palestinians across Arab and Muslim World

    Chanting crowds protested across the Middle East Friday in a show of solidarity with the Palestinians, with Iran's ex-president saying Israel's harsh actions against the Palestinians can only lead to more violence like the dual attacks on Israelis in Kenya. From Iran to Nigeria, tens of thousands of people marked the annual protest for Jerusalem Day.. More

  • Kenya Police Pick Up 12 for Questioning

    An Israeli army team on Friday began evacuating tourists injured in the deadlybombing of an Israel-owned hotel. Kenyan police said they picked up 12 people for questioning in connection with the blast and a simultaneous attempted attack on an Israeli airliner. The death toll in the bombing rose to 16 as rescue workers recovered the body of another Kenyan.. More