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  • Afghan Opposition Warns U.S. Over Civilian Deaths

    KHOJA BAHAWUDDIN, Afghanistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Afghanistan's opposition urged the United States and its allies Wednesday to work harder to prevent civilian casualties in its military campaign against the ruling Taliban.Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, the opposition's foreign minister, said bombing raids against Taliban positions had inflicted more.. More

    2151 05/05/2001

  • U.N. Expects Flood of 300,000 Afghan Refugees

    QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - The United Nations refugee agency said Wednesday it fears Pakistan could be flooded with up to 300,000 refugees fleeing U.S. air strikes on neighboring Afghanistan.(Read photo caption below) Officials from the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said they were planning for an influx of that size even though Pakistan.. More

    2152 05/05/2001

  • Ayman Halaweh, A New Hamas Martyr

    NABLUS, West Bank (Islamweb & News Agencies) - A Palestinian bombmaker was killed on Monday in an explosion which officials from the militant Islamic group Hamas blamed on Israel.Hamas officials said Ayman Halaweh, 26, was killed when a booby-trapped car he was traveling in exploded in the West Bank city of Nablus. They identified Halaweh as a ``commander''.. More

    2116 04/05/2001

  • U.S. Says No Clear Link Between Iraq and Anthrax

    WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The State Department said on Monday it knew of no clear link between Iraq and the deadly release of anthrax bacteria in the United States.``We don't put anything past (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein, but I don't believe that there's any clear linkage at this point,'' State Department spokesman Philip Reeker said.. More

    2117 04/05/2001

  • Northern Irish Peace Hopes Hinge on IRA Arms Move

    BELFAST, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - Northern Ireland waited in hope Tuesday for a momentous disarmament move by the IRA that could signal the rebirth of the British province's stricken peace accord.Republican sources in Belfast said the Irish Republican Army was likely to give a quick reply to an unprecedented call by Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams.. More

    2118 04/05/2001

  • Some 350 Migrants Said Drowned Off Indonesia

    JAKARTA (Reuters) - Some 350 migrants from several Muslim countries drowned in the Java Sea off Indonesia at the weekend after a boat carrying them to an unknown destination sank, a relief body said on Monday. A total of 44 people survived the disaster, including an eight-year-old boy who lost 21 members of his family, a spokesman for the Geneva-based.. More

    2119 04/05/2001

  • The Latest US Vicitim of Bio-Terrorism

    WASHINGTON, (Islamweb & News Agencies) -- Scientists will "immediately" check any postal facility through which an anthrax-tainted letter or package is processed, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said Tuesday.(Read photo caption below)Speaking before a House subcommittee, Thompson spoke one day after two postal workers died of what.. More

    2130 04/05/2001

  • Taliban Frontline Positions Pounded Near Kabul

    KABUL (Islamweb & News Agencies) - U.S. planes pounded Taliban front line positions north of Kabul and near a strategic northern city on Tuesday for a third successive day as the Afghan opposition said they intend to surround Kabul but not roll into the capital.Witnesses said they could not see the exact targets but the U.S. bombs hit known concentrations.. More

    2131 04/05/2001

  • Taliban Accuses the United States of Genocide

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Accusing the United States of "genocide" the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan said Monday that U.S. aircraft had bombed a hospital in the western city of Herat, killing up to 100 people. (Photo-coutesy: Al-Jazeera TV Satellite Station)"It is now clear that America plans on intentionally targeting the.. More

    2111 03/05/2001

  • Taliban Say Wreckage of Crashed Helicopter Found

    KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said Monday they had found the wreckage of a crashed helicopter in southern Helmand province as well as indications two other helicopters had come in to try to remove it.``Yesterday, a crashed helicopter was found in the Registan area of Helmand province on the border with (Pakistan's) Baluchistan,''.. More

    2112 03/05/2001

  • Musharraf Urges End to Afghan Bombing by Ramadan

    WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf warned Monday that if U.S.-led attacks on Afghanistan extended into the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, they would have a negative effect in the Muslim world. (Read photo caption below) With the start of Ramadan in mid-November approaching, Musharraf appealed for an end to.. More

    2113 03/05/2001

  • CIA Reportedly Gets Authority to Hunt Down Bin Laden

    WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - President Bush last month gave the CIA it broadest authority yet to conduct lethal covert action against Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network, The Washington Post reported in its Sunday edition. The newspaper, quoting unidentified senior government officials, said Bush signed an order, known as an intelligence.. More

    2091 03/05/2001

  • Taleban leader's son killed

    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, (BBC)-An Afghan doctor has confirmed to the BBC that the son of the Taleban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has been killed in the US-led air strikes.(Read photo caption below) The 10-year-old boy died from his injuries after the first night of bombing raids on the Taleban stronghold of Kandahar, according to Doctor Abdul Bari. Dr.. More

    2092 03/05/2001

  • APEC Muslim Member States Block US Efforts to Make Group's Final Statement Directly Refer To its War in Afganistan

    SHANGHAI, China (Islamweb & News Agencies) -- Leaders from across the Pacific Rim meeting at the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Shanghai have signed what they say is a "visionary" statement against terrorism.However their final statement has failed to contain direct reference to the US war in Afghanistan. The Bush administration.. More

    2094 03/05/2001

  • Two Palestinians Killed in Fighting Near Bethlehem

    BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israel's army held on to positions in and around six Palestinian West Bank cities Sunday in its broadest offensive in a year of uprising agaisnt Israeli occupation sparking fresh fighting in which two more Palestinians were killed. A Palestinian civilian and a police officer were killed and at least.. More

    2095 03/05/2001

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