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  • Another Palestinian is killed; Latest Israeli Peace Offer, a Non-starter: Abed Rebbo

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - An Israeli helicopter gunship killed a Palestinian during a battle between occupation soldiers and Resistance men in the West Bank on Wednesday in fresh violence that overshadowed a rare session of security talks between the sides. Israeli and Palestinian security officials held a meeting on the Gaza Strip border.. More

  • India’s Recalled Ambassador to Pakistan Does not Rule out War Between the Two Nuclear Neighbours

    NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD (Islamweb & News Agencies) - India claimed on Tuesday that a war was being thrust on it by Pakistan, though it did not want a confrontation, as tension mounted between the two nuclear rivals across their border in disputed Kashmi. Three Indian soldiers have been killed since Monday as India and Pakistan exchanged cross-border mortar.. More

  • Russian Court Jails Chechen Resistance Leader for Life

    MOSCOW (Islamweb & News Agencies) - A Russian court sentenced the most important Chechen Resistance leader ever captured by Russian forces to life imprisonment on Tuesday. After a five-week trial, Salman Raduyev was convicted of leading an armed group, banditry, terrorism, premeditated murder, hostage-taking, organizing explosions and other offences... More

  • Palestinian War of Independence Rages on Despite Seasonal Holidays

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) –Seasonal Christian holidays were no occasion for peace in the Holy Land. Three Arab Resistance men and an Israeli occupation soldier were killed in bloodshed unstaunched by a holiday celebrated by a tiny Christian community in the land where Jesus preached goodwill toward men. Four Israeli occupation troops.. More

  • India-Pakistan Tensions Rise

    JAMMU, Indian-ruled Kashmir (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged fresh mortar and heavy machinegun fire on Monday as New Delhi expelled a Pakistani diplomat, raising tensions between the nuclear-armed enemies ever higher. (Read photo caption below) The two hostile neighbors have reinforced positions on either side of their.. More

  • Despite On-going Palestinian Concessions, Hopes For Peace Remain as Dim as Ever

    BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Hopes for peace in the Holy Land seemed as empty as Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's seat at Bethlehem's midnight mass after Israel barred his seasonal trip to the town where Jesus was born. Showing no goodwill toward a man it branded ``irrelevant,'' Israel ignored international appeals -- including.. More

  • Karzai Names Afghan Warlord to Defense Ministry

    KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Moving to fend off dissent from a powerful potential foe, new Afghan leader Hamid Karzai on Monday appointed ethnic Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum as deputy defense minister in his two-day-old government. The appointment on the day the cabinet members entered their new ministries for the first time marked the start.. More

  • Airports on Red Alert After 'Shoe Bomber' Scare

    LONDON (Reuters) - Airports around the world were on top alert Monday after a failed attempt by a man with his shoes stuffed with explosives to blow up an airliner flying from Paris to Miami. In Paris, where the man, believed to be British, boarded Saturday's American Airlines flight 63, more police with sniffer dogs were on patrol after what one security.. More

  • Argentina Chief Promises Work Plan

    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - A day after defaulting on the national debt, Argentina's new president said the first details of an ambitious works program aimed at creating a million jobs would be unveiled on Tuesday. President Adolfo Rodriguez Saa also said Monday that he would appeal to the United States and Spain for financial help in reversing.. More

  • Palestinian Armed Opposition Suspends Resistance Attacks

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Two major Palestinian armed oppositiongroups, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, said they would suspend Resistance attacks against Israel until further notice, boosting hopes of ending 15 months of Israeli-Palestinian violence.(Read photo caption below) Their show of solidarity on Friday was designed to halt increasingly.. More

  • Eight Killed, 10 Wounded in Kashmir

    SRINAGAR, Indian-ruled (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Eight people have been killed and 10 wounded in the latest explosions and shootouts in the Indian-ruled state of Jammu and Kashmir, Indian police said on Friday. An Indian policeman was killed and three people were wounded on Friday when a crude bomb planted in a transistor radio exploded in a bus.. More

  • Argentina Proposes New President Until March Vote

    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - Argentina's new power-brokers on Friday put forward one of their own to lead the crumbling nation to possible presidential elections in March after a bloody revolt toppled the government. With sporadic looting reported overnight in Buenos Aires after riots in which 27 people were killed, Congress rubber stamped Fernando.. More

  • US War Planes Kill 65 Karzai Supporters 24 Hours Before His Inauguration As Premier Saturday

    KABUL (Islamweb & News Agencies) – US war planes have killed 65 krazai supporters apparently by mistake casting a deep shadow over the inauguration of the country’s first peaceful handover of power in decades Saturday. Hamid Karzai himself returned to Kabul on Friday to take up the leadership of war-shattered Afghanistan while his ministers-in-waiting.. More

  • Afghans Welcome Deployment of International Force

    KABUL (Reuters) - Ordinary Afghans welcomed the deployment of an international security force on Friday, saying they hoped it would provide a safeguard against the ethnic violence of the past decade. The only reservations voiced on the streets of the Afghan capital, Kabul, were that the security force should take a limited role and remain politically.. More

  • Pakistan To Respond to India Troop Movements

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan on Friday threatened to respond to big Indian troop movements along the border but said it would not retaliate against its nuclear rival's decision to recall its ambassador in Islamabad. Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said in a statement it would take ``appropriate counter measures'' to the Indian troop movements as tension.. More