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Arab League Warns Against Attacking Iraq

CAIRO (Reuters) - The head of the 22-member Arab League said on Tuesday that Arabs would not stand for any attack on Iraq as an extension of the U.S. ``war on terrorism'' and said such a move would destroy the present global coalition. Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the inter-government body and a former Egyptian foreign minister, was speaking a.. More

2622 19/05/2001
Northern Alliance Denies Bloodbath in Northern Fortress

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Northern Afghanistan, (Islamweb & News Agencies) -The Northern Alliance, denied reports itwas using an uprising by Taliban prisoners of warat a fort near the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, in northern Afghanistanas as an opportunity to get rid of unwanted prisoners. Northern alliance troops aided by U.S. special forces fought are fighting.. More

2599 19/05/2001
U.S. Marines Control Kandahar Outpost

SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Newly landed U.S. Marines cemented control of an outpost in the Kandahar region Monday as Navy fighter jets attacked a convoy of armored enemy vehicles moving near the base in southern Afghanistan. Two F-14 Tomcats hit the armored column, said Maj. Brad Lowell, a spokesman for the U.S. Central Command.. More

2600 19/05/2001
Afghan Groups Huddle in Bonn Before Talks

BONN (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Afghan exiles, U.N. experts and diplomats including Germany's foreign minister held preliminary discussions on Afghanistan's future on Monday ahead of a conference to discuss a post-Taliban government. About 30 delegates from four anti-Taliban Afghan groups were set to begin closed-door United Nations-sponsored talks.. More

2601 19/05/2001
Misuari Supporters Take Scores Hostage in Philippines

ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Gunmen loyal to Nur Misuari, a rebellious governor took scores of civilians hostage in the southern Philippines on Tuesday after they were pounded by helicopter gunships and bomber planes, Red Cross officials said. Red Cross officials and residents said at least 160 people, including women and children,.. More

2602 19/05/2001
Bush Urges Iraq to Allow UN Inspectors Back into the Country

WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - President Bush said Monday the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan is ``just the beginning'' of the fight against terrorism, and he warned Iraq there would be consequences for producing weapons of mass destruction. (Read photo caption below) The president, asked about Iraq and about potential military targets beyond the.. More

2606 19/05/2001
Russia Seeks Equal Voice with NATO States - Ivanov

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia hopes to build a partnership with NATO which would give it an equal voice on key issues with other members of the Alliance, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said in an interview broadcast on Sunday. Ivanov told RTR state television after NATO Secretary General George Robertson's visit to Moscow last week that any arrangement to.. More

2592 18/05/2001
The First Known U.S. Combat Death in Afghanistan Yet to Be Confirmed

WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The United States used heavily armed AC-130 gunships and MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters on Sunday to help Northern Alliance commanders crush a revolt by foreign Taliban prisoners at a mud-walled fort in northern Afghanistan, U.S. defense officials said. A Time magazine correspondent reported from the scene outside.. More

2586 17/05/2001
U.S. Troops Seen on Ground Near Kandahar

CHAMAN, Pakistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - U.S. troops, shipped in by waves of helicopters, have landed on the ground near the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, last stronghold of the Taliban, officials of anti-Taliban tribes said on Sunday. (Read photo caption below) Such a move would mark a dramatic new development in a war that the United States.. More

2587 17/05/2001
Taliban Fighters Are Leaving Spin Boldak

CHAMAN, Pakistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Taliban fighters began to withdraw from the Afghan town of Spin Boldak near the Pakistan border on Monday , said a Reuters correspondent on the border. Dozens if not hundreds of pickup trucks -- their lights extinguished -- were driving out of Spin Boldak and south into the desert of southern Afghanistan,.. More

2588 17/05/2001
Arafat on an Arab Tour Ahead of U.S. Peace Mission

RIYADH (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat briefed Saudi and Egyptian leaders on Sunday about the latest Israeli-Palestinian violence on the eve of the arrival in the region of a new U.S. peacemaking mission. King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, in remarks in Riyadh reported by the official Saudi Press Agency, condemned ``the assassination.. More

2589 17/05/2001
Hundreds of Kunduz Taliban Give Up, More Hold Out

BANGI/MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Hundreds of Taliban fighters poured out of Kunduz to surrender on Saturday after 10 days of bombing by U.S. warplanes and artillery barrages from the encircling Northern Alliance.But thousands of Taliban troops, including foreign fighters loyal to Saudi-born Osama bin Laden, were still holed.. More

2575 17/05/2001
Malaysian Police Capture Philippine's Nur-Misuari

KUALA LUMPUR Nov 24 (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Malaysian police on Saturday arrested a fugitive Philippine Muslim leader, whom Manila blames for an uprising in which 160 people were killed this week. Nur Misuari, who heads the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in the southern Philippines, had been on the run since fighting broke out between 600.. More

2576 17/05/2001
German Greens Back Using Troops for Afghan Campaign

ROSTOCK, Germany (Reuters) - Germany's pacifist Greens party voted by a large majority to back the deployment of troops for Afghanistan on Saturday, averting the collapse of the coalition government.Greens co-leader Claudia Roth described the vote at the party's congress as the ``most difficult decision in the history of our party.'' Environment Minister.. More

2577 17/05/2001
Swiss Jet Crashes Near Zurich, at Least 10 Dead

BIRCHWIL (Reuters) - A Swiss airliner crashed on its approach to Zurich airport late on Saturday after a flight from Berlin, killing at least 10 of the 33 people aboard and injuring others.Police at the wintry crash scene near the town of Birchwil, just a few miles from the runway, said at least nine people had so far been found alive. Rescuers said.. More

2579 17/05/2001

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