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  • Kashmir Chief Sworn in Hours After Grenade Attack

    HIGHLIGHTSNew Chief Minister Favours Talks with Kashmiri Nationalist Groups Fighting for Self-determination|*|Al-Nasreen Nationalist Resistance Group Claims Responsibility for Grenade Attack, Warns of More to Come|*|Indian Army Claims to Have Killed a Dozen Suspected Kashmiri Nationalist Fighters|*|Kashmiri Nationalists Kill 14 Indians Including a Congress.. More

  • Israeli occupation army grabs three resistance men in West Bank

    The Israeli occupation army jailed three Palestinians in the West Bank as it hunted down resistance men plotting attacks against Israel.In the northern West Bank town of Nablus, Israeli occupation soldiers jailed two men, including a wanted member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.To the south, the occupation army arrested a member.. More

  • Shooting again embroils US forces training in Kuwait

    US forces training in Kuwait were caught up in the fourth shooting incident in less than a month, according to a US spokesman at Camp Doha."Shots were fired in the vicinity of the area where the soldiers are located in the south," the spokesman told AFP on Saturday.The incident occurred Friday in Orayfijan, some 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of Kuwait.. More

  • 50 killed, 89 injured in Morocco's worst ever prison fire

    The death toll from a fire at a Moroccan prison has risen to 50 after another prisoner succumbed to his injuries, the MAP news agency reported.89 others were injured when a fire raged through a prison in El Jadida, south of the Moroccan capital Rabat, reviving a debate about conditions in the north African kingdom's notoriously overcrowded jails.Many.. More

  • Israeli Occupation Army Arrests Resistance Activists as Peres & Palestinians Hold Talks in Spain

    The Israeli occupation army arrested seven Palestinians, including wanted Islamic Jihad resistance leader Fayez Tubassi, during a sweep of the West Bank village of Al-Araqa. Dozens of occupation army vehicles and jeeps briefly rolled into Al-Araqa, west of the northern city of Jenin, Palestinian security sources said Friday. The sources also told a.. More

  • Iraq Gets More Time to Divulge Chemicals And Oil Uses

    The United States is ready to change its proposed U.N. resolution to give Iraq more time (50 instead of 30 days) to declare oil industry-related chemicals that may have military applications, diplomats said. But Washington will stick to its 30-day deadline for Iraq to divulge to the U.N. Security Council its weapons of mass destruction programmes, a.. More

  • Basayev Claims Responsibility for Moscow Hostage-taking & Denmark Rejects Russia's Extradition Request For Zakayev

    Russia's public enemy number one, Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, claimed responsibility for the deadly Moscow hostage-taking and absolved deposed elected Chechen leader Aslan Maskhadov of involvement in the operation. In a statement issued on the Chechen Kavzak Center website, Basayev asked "forgiveness from him (Maskhadov) and my fellow fighters for.. More

  • Palestinians slam HRW report calling bombers "war criminals"

    The Palestinian leadership hit back at a report by a leading international rights watchdog that denounced resistancebombers as "war criminals" and said the Palestinian Authority (PA) bore heavy responbility for not stopping them. A top advisor to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat condemned the report by the US-based Human Rights Watch, arguing that Israel's.. More

  • Netanyahu Could Become Israeli Foreign Minister

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharonplanned on Friday to ask his main rival in the right-wing Likud party, Benjamin Netanyahu , to become foreign minister in the narrow government he hopes to form, Israel Radio said. Spokesmen for the two men declined to comment on the report, which said Sharon and Netanyahu, a hawkish former prime.. More

  • Russia Wants U.N. OK Before Force Against Iraq

    MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia stood by its demand on Friday that Washington seek explicit U.N. authorization for using force against Iraq if Baghdad failed to cooperate with weapons inspectors.Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said Russia and the four other U.N. Security Council permanent members had moved closer toward agreement on a new resolution aimed at.. More

  • Arafat Warns of More Violence

    HIGHLIGHTSArafat Predicts Israel-Palestinian Conflict Will Further Worsen Under New Israeli Coalition|*|3 Palestinians Killed, 6 Others Wounded in Gaza Explosion|*|Palestinian Resistance Man Wounds Israeli Occupation Soldier Before Getting Killed in a Shoot out Near an Internationally Illegal Jewish Settlement in the West Bank|*|An Israeli Occupation.. More

  • Secular Win Slightly in Bahrain Vote

    HIGHLIGHTSMinister of Information Sad Because Two Women Candidates Expected to Get Elected Lost |*| One of the Two Women, However, Doesn't Feel Like a Loser |*| Opposition's Call to Boycott Election Goes Largely Unheeded |*| ________STORY: Secular candidates won a slight majority over Islamists in voting for 21 seats in Bahrain's parliament, while.. More

  • Israeli Occupation troops Destroy Jenin Homes

    Israeli occupation troops Thursday demolished four houses belonging to suspected Palestinian resistance men, bringing to nine the number of houses destroyed in the Jenin refugee camp this past week.Two of the houses destroyed Thursday belonged to resistance bombers and two belonged to suspected resistance men wanted by Israel for attacks, the occupation.. More

  • Israel's Sharon Courts Far-Right

    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Thursday began courting ultranationalist legislators to try to rebuild his coalition, left in a shambles by the departure of the center-left Labor Party. The political instability in Israel bodes ill for a new U.S.-backed peace plan, and Palestinian officials say they fear a government stacked with hardliners will adopt.. More

  • Aide: Israel Ex-Army Chief OKs Post

    Formeroccupation army chief Shaul Mofaz, who led the Israeli occupation armyduring much of its crackdown on Palestinians in the past two years of violence, has agreed to become the next defense minister, an aide to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday. The post became vacant after the Labor Party left the government Wednesday and all six Labor.. More