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  • Israel Decrees All Out War on Hamas

    Hamas and its leaders are the main target of Israel's "war on terrorism," Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said on Sunday, a day after one of the group's founding members was killed in an Israeli missile strike in the Gaza Strip. Hamas said it would avenge the killing of Ibrahim Makadmeh, 51, a leader of the group's military wing, by targeting Israeli political.. More

  • Turkey's Erdogan Seeks By-Election Seat

    The leader of Turkey's ruling party was expected to win a by-election Sunday, moving him a step closer to becoming the next prime minister as the country wrestles with whether to accept 60,000 U.S. troops for a possible Iraqwar. Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been the main power behind the scenes since his Islamic-rooted party formed a government after November.. More

  • Iraq Calls for End to U.N. Sanctions

    Emboldened by the latest weapons inspectors' report, Iraq on Saturday called on the United Nations to remove crippling sanctions and ban weapons of mass destruction in the entire Middle East - and eventually in the United States. Iraq resumed destroying banned Al Samoud 2 missiles under U.N. supervision Saturday after taking a day off, crushing six.. More

  • North Korea Rejects Multilateral Talks

    A state-run North Korean newspaper on Saturday rejected a U.S. proposal to resolve the standoff over the communist state's nuclear programs through multilateral talks, reiterating Pyongyang's demand for direct dialogue with Washington. President Bush said Thursday that multilateral dialogue was the best way to deal with the communist nation's nuclear.. More

  • Hamas to Target Israeli Leaders

    The Palestinian resistance group Hamas vowed revenge Saturday after one of its founding members and three bodyguards were assassinated in an Israeli helicopter attack. Hamas threatened to attack Israeli political leaders and said no Israeli should feel safe after helicopter gunships swooped in and fired missiles at a car carrying Hamas resistance leader.. More

  • Israel Kills Hamas Military Head, Hamas Vows Revenge

    Israel killed the top commander of Hamas's military wing and three other activists in a helicopter missile strike on a car in the Gaza Stripon Saturday, drawing vows of revenge from the resistance Islamic group. Ibrahim al-Maqadma, 51, was a founder of Hamas and was believed to be the top commander of its military wing, which has waged a resistance.. More

  • Facing March 17 Deadline, Iraq Scraps Missiles

    Threatened with a March 17 deadline to disarm, Iraqscrapped more of its banned missiles on Saturday in a process Washington dismisses as too little, too late to save it from war. An attack on Baghdad could come even sooner than March 17, the date set down in a draft U.N. resolution which is the subject of frenetic diplomatic haggling this weekend. If.. More

  • Chirac Wants Security Council Summit

    President Jacques Chirac is lobbying other heads of state to join him at an emergency summit of U.N. Security Council members to search for compromise on Iraq, his office said Saturday. The Elysee presidential palace also reiterated France's objection to a U.S.-British draft resolution giving Iraqi leader Saddam Husseina March 17 ultimatum to destroy.. More

  • Iraq Urges U.N. to Resist War Resolution

    Iraq urged the U.N. Security Council on Friday to stand up to "the law of the jungle" and vote down any resolution authorizing war. The chief U.N. weapons inspectors praised new cooperation from Baghdad. U.N. weapons inspectors in Iraq had their quietest day in weeks, returning to supervise the excavation of buried bombs and visiting two sites in the.. More

  • Palestinian Resistance Men Kill Two Israelis

    Two Palestinian resistance men dressed as Jewish seminary students barged into an internationally illegal settlement Friday, killing 2 settlers before being shot dead themselves. The attack came hours after Israeli occupation troops reoccupied a northern chunk of the Gaza Strip. The occupation soldiers in Gaza surrounded Palestinian houses, set up military.. More

  • Fate of Two Bin Laden Sons in Dispute

    A Pakistan official said Friday two sons of Osama bin Laden were wounded and possibly arrested by U.S. and Afghan troops in Afghanistan, but Washington disputed the report as did local officials and U.S. military in Afghanistan. Sardar Sanaullah Zehri, home minister of the western Pakistani province of Baluchistan, also said nine-suspected al Qaeda.. More

  • Israeli Occupation forces Establish Gaza 'Security Zone'

    Israeli occupation forces seized a band of territory in the northern Gaza Stripon Friday, effectively setting up a security zone in what the occupation army called an open-ended campaign to thwart Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel. "We will remain for as long as is necessary...and if we decide to hold on to this territory for a long time, we will,".. More

  • Blix Reports to UN as War Clouds Gather Over Iraq

    Chief U.N. arms inspector Hans Blix on Friday delivers a key report on Iraqto the Security Council, after President Bushvowed to force a vote within days on a resolution authorizing war.In a reminder of just how close Iraq could be to invasion, the head of the British armed forces said in Kuwait his troops were now ready to join any U.S.-led attack... More

  • Bin Laden Seems Alive, Not in Pakistan-Musharraf

    Residents in a remote region in Pakistan said leaflets were dropped there on Thursday offering rewards for the capture of bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders. President Pervez Musharraf said bin Laden seemed to be alive but added he was unlikely to be in Pakistan, where suspected September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was arrested last weekend... More

  • Israeli Tanks Return to Refugee Camp

    In the most intense battle in Gaza in months, an Israeli army raid left 11 Palestinians dead Thursday, including eight who witnesses said were hit by an Israeli tank shell fired at a crowd. Israel insisted it targeted only armed men. More than 140 Palestinians were hurt, 35 of them seriously, doctors said. The crackdown at the Jabaliya refugee camp.. More