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  • Twenty Killed, 42 Wounded in Kashmir Resistance Operations

    SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Twenty people including 14 Resistance men have been killed and 42 wounded in fresh Resistance attacks in Indian-ruledJammu and Kashmir state, Indian security officials said on Saturday. At least 42 people were wounded on Saturday when suspected Kashmiri Resistance men lobbed a grenade into a crowded market place at Bandipur,.. More

  • Israeli Troops Kill Two in Cordon of W. Bank City

    JENIN, West Bank (Islamweb Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israeli occupation troops shot dead two Palestinians, one of them an 11-year-old boy, after surrounding the West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday, Palestinian medics and witnesses said. Israeli occupation forces ringed Jenin and Nablus, also in the West Bank, in an overnight operation following a.. More

  • Iraq Rejects Ambassador Allegations

    BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq rejected claims that its outgoing ambassador to Turkey had met with Osama bin Laden, labeling such reports as ``American-Zionist propaganda'' against Arab and Islamic countries. The United States has alleged that Farouk Hijazi met with bin Laden, America's prime suspect in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, in 1998 in Kandahar,.. More

  • UN Security Council Approves Iraq Sanctions Plan

    UNITED NATIONS (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Thursday in favor of a U.S.-Russian compromise resolution that pledges to revise sanctions against Iraq within six months and extends the existing U.N. oil-for-food program for Baghdad until then. The vote signified an unusual show of unity betweenWashington.. More

  • Bonn Talks On Afghanistan’s Future Enter 4th Day

    BONN, Germany (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Talks on Afghanistan's political future turn Friday to the tricky task of putting names to jobs in an interim government in which the dominant Northern Alliance will share power with returning Afghan exiles. The Alliance, which has won control of most of Afghanistan including the capital Kabul bolstered by.. More

  • Pentagon Claims Taliban Control Over Troops Fractured

    WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - A top leader of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda guerrilla network has been captured, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday, and the Pentagon claimed Taliban control over their troops has been fractured. About 1,000 U.S. Marines were based at a desert airstrip outside the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar in southern.. More

  • U.N. War Crimes Court Investigates Serb Leaders

    THE HAGUE (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Prosecutors preparing for the war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic said on Thursday they were investigating the chief of staff of the Yugoslav army and Serbia's police chief over alleged atrocities in Kosovo in 1999. Army chief Nebojsa Pavkovic and police head Sreten Lukic, promoted to their current posts only.. More

  • Rebels Bomb Nepal Coke Plant

    KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Maoist rebels struck in the heart of Nepal on Thursday, bombing a Coca-Cola plant in the capital, as anxiety mounted about more guerrilla attacks. Maoist rebels seeking to set up a communist republic bombed the bottling plant in Kathmandu at dawn, blowing off the roof and shattering windows but causing no casualties. The attack.. More

  • Israeli Army Enters Palestinian Areas

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israelioccupation forces surrounded two West Bank cities and took up positions just inside Palestinian-ruled areas early on Saturday in response to a Resistanceattack inside Israel, Israeli occupationsources said. The operations took place as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was in the United States preparing.. More

  • Afghan Northern Alliance Flexible on Power-Sharing & Deployment of Multi-international Force

    BONN, Germany (Islamweb & News Agencies) - After agreeing in principal to share power with rival factions, Afghanistan's militarily dominant Northern Alliance seeks to nail down details of a post-Taliban government in detailed talks on Thursday. On Wednesday night, the Northern Alliance, which controls most of Afghanistan, agreed to broad outlines.. More

  • Moroccan Held in Germany on U.S. Attacks Link

    BERLIN (Reuters) - German prosecutors said on Wednesday they had detained a Moroccan man they suspect helped finance the September 11 airliner attacks in the United States. The 27-year-old Moroccan, identified only as Mounir El M., was being held in the northern port city of Hamburg on suspicion of supporting a terrorist organization, federal prosecutor.. More

  • UN Council Considers US-Russia Deal on Iraq

    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Security Council members on Wednesday debated a U.S.-Russian compromise that would delay plans for an overhaul of U.N. sanctions against Iraq but pledge to revise the embargoes in six months. The U.N. oil-for-food humanitarian program, which contains sanctions regulations, expires on Friday. The program will be extended.. More

  • Germany Warns U.S. on Wider Anti-Terror War

    BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany warned the United States Wednesday against expanding its war on terrorism in Afghanistan to countries such as Iraq and Somalia. ``All European nations would view a broadening (of the conflict) to include Iraq highly skeptically -- and that is putting it diplomatically,'' Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer told parliament. Chancellor.. More

  • U.N. Seeks Serb Wartime Commander

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. chief war crimes prosecutor accused the Yugoslav government Tuesday of harboring the Bosnian Serbs' wartime commander who has been indicted for genocide. Carla del Ponte said Gen. Ratko Mladic was living in Belgrade and the Yugoslav army was shielding him from both national and international justice with the government's.. More

  • S. Africa's ANC in Pact with Former Apartheid Foes

    CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress agreed Tuesday to share power at all levels of government with the party that imposed apartheid for more than 40 years and jailed and murdered opponents. The ANC and the New National Party (NNP), formerly the whites-only National Party, announced that their accord would enable the.. More