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  • Peru Summit Closes with Vows on Terror, Argentina

    LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal wrapped up a summit in Lima on Saturday vowing their ``maximum commitment'' against terror and support for Argentina as it battles to avert devastating debt default.At a ceremony in Peru's renovated government palace, the representatives of 23 countries signed declarations pledging.. More

  • War in Afghanistan Far From Over Ahead of Landmark UN-Sponsored Multi-party Conference in Germany Next Week

    =CONFUSION OVER THE BATTLE FOR KUNDZ* =RED CROSS REPORTS ALLIANCE ATROCITIES IN MAZAR-I-SHARIF = TALIBAN SAY WOULD NEVER SURRENDER KANDAHAR = FACTIONAL BLOODLETTING HAD ALREADY BEGUN IN KABUL _______________________________________________________ KABUL/MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The Northern Alliance said it launched an assault to.. More

  • Accusing Washington of Double Standards, Iraq Denies U.S. Claims on Violating Germ Arms Ban

    BAGHDAD (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Iraq on Thursday denied U.S. accusations that it has developed and produced biological weapons and said it is Washington that has been researching germ warfare. ``Iraq ended its biological program in 1991 in compliance with the Convention that it has joined in the same year,'' a Foreign Ministry spokesman said. ``The.. More

  • Two-Thirds of UK Muslims Oppose Afghan War - Poll

    LONDON (Reuters) - Two in three British Muslims oppose the U.S.-led strikes on Afghanistan, although an overwhelming majority of them consider themselves loyal citizens, a survey published on Thursday showed. The MORI survey, published in the weekly Eastern Eye newspaper, also said nearly two-thirds of the country's Muslims believed their fellow countrymen.. More

  • Would Russia Have Veto Over NATO Affairs?

    MOSCOW (Islamweb & News Agencies) - NATO chief George Robertson meets Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin on Friday to discuss burgeoning security ties between the former Cold War foes that could eventually see Moscow given a veto in alliance affairs. NATO Secretary-General George Robertson told Reuters on Thursday that the two sides were discussing plans.. More

  • Britain's Straw gets only limited approval for troops in Afghanistan

    TEHRAN, Iran, (AFP)-British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw won limited approval for the deployment of British troops in Afghanistan in talks here with acting Northern Alliance foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, an Afghan diplomat said."Dr. Abdullah has given our approval for a limited deployment," Mohammad Kheirkhah, the Afghan ambassador in Iran, told.. More

  • Israel Assassinates Hamas Leader as U.S. Peace Bid Nears

    NABLUS, West Bank (Islamweb & News Agencies) - An Israeli missile strike assassinated a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance group Hamas, prompting a vow of revenge as Washington prepared a new mission hoping to end 14 months of Israeli-Palestinian violence.The assassinated Hamas military leader, Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, was high on Israel's.. More

  • Massacre Fears Grow Over Fate of Besieged Kunduz

    = US B-52s BOMB KUNDUZ * = MULLAH OMAR FLEES KNDAHAR? = (ICRC) SAYS UP TO 600 BODIES IN MAZAR-I-SHARIF TWO WEEKS AFTER IT WAS CAPTURED BY THE NORTHERN ALLIANCE = BRITAIN & PAKISTAN EXPRESS CONCERN OF A BLOODBATH IN KUNDUZ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ KABUL/BANGI.. More

  • Rabbani to Step Aside for New Afghan Leader

    LONDON (Reuters) - Burhanuddin Rabbani, still officially the president of Afghanistan, says he would relinquish any claims to power if next week's talks in Germany succeed in naming a transitional leader.In an interview published in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday, Rabbani, who was president from 1993 until 1996 when the Taliban threw him out, said.. More

  • Milosevic Charged with Bosnia Genocide

    THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The United Nations war crimes tribunal said on Friday it had charged Slobodan Milosevic with genocide in Bosnia in its third and gravest indictment against the former Yugoslav leader.Milosevic, the most prominent European to face a war crimes court since the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders at the end of World War Two, is charged.. More

  • Taliban and U.S. Exchange Death Vows

    WASHINGTON/KABUL (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The Taliban and the United States both wished death on their foes on Wednesday as the Taliban movement said it hoped ``mighty Allah will break America'' and the Pentagon chief said he would prefer Osama bin Laden dead rather than captured alive.As their rule over Afghanistan crumbled under nearly seven weeks.. More

  • Dostum & Taliban Commander Discuss Kunduz Fate

    MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - All Taliban forces in the besieged northern Afghan enclave of Kunduz have agreed to surrender, a top Taliban commander said early on Thursday.Kunduz Taliban commander Mullah Faizal was speaking to reporters in the nearby town of Mazar-i-Sharif, which is under Northern Alliance control, after talks.. More

  • Ben Ladin's Potential Escape Routes To Be Sealed-US & Allies

    KABUL, Afghanistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The United States and its allies moved to seal off potential escape routes Osama bin Laden could use to leave Afghanistan.``They keep tracking and dodging and bobbing and weaving, and we're looking,'' Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said when asked how close the military was to finding bin Laden and.. More

  • Latest US Anthrax Victim

    DERBY, Conn. (Islamweb & News Agencies) - A 94-year-old woman who lived alone and seldom left her rural home died of the inhaled form of anthrax Wednesday in a baffling new twist in the bioterrorism investigation.Ottilie Lundgren died five days after she was hospitalized with respiratory problems. She is the fifth person to die of anthrax since early.. More

  • An Israeli State Terrorist Squad Kidnaps Two Palestinian Brothers

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - An Israeli state terrorist squad kidnapped a Palestinian policeman and his brother in what is described by the Israeli occupation authorities as a search for militants in a West Bank village on Wednesday, adding to pressures facing a new U.S. peace mission to the Middle East.. The state terrorist squad raid on.. More