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  • Major Quake Rocks Peru, 25 Feared Dead

    [A powerful earthquake shook southern Peru on Saturday, killing at least 31 people and sending dozens of homes, churches and buildings tumbling to the ground. Read photo caption below]. AREQUIPA (Reuters) - At least 25 people were reported to have been killed on Saturday when a major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.9 rocked southern Peru, civil defense.. More

    816 27/03/2001

  • Philippine Rebels Sign Peace Agreement

    [Gadhafi's son, Seif el-Islam, chairs the opening session of the peace talks between the Philippine government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Tripoli, Libya. Read photo caption below]. TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - The Philippine government and a Muslim separatist group signed a peace agreement Friday night, calling for a cease-fire in a 32-year.. More

    806 27/03/2001

  • Headless Bodies of Hostages Found

    [An Army trooper rides a tricycle as he patrols Isabela, the capital of the island province of Basilan in southern Philippines.Read photo caption below]. ISABELA, Philippines (Islamweb & Agencies) - The beheaded bodies of two Filipinos who were kidnapped by the outlawed Muslim rebels in the southern Philippines were discovered Saturday outside the.. More

    807 27/03/2001

  • Macedonia Vows to Fight On

    [The Macedonian army blasted a village held by Albanian Freedom fighters June 22, 2001, tearing up a ragged 11-day truce. Read photo caption below]. OUTSIDE ARACINOVO, Macedonia (Reuters) - The Slav-dominated Macedonian army blasted a village held by Albanian Freedom fighters Friday and vowed to continue to attack, tearing up an 11-day truce in a risky.. More

    808 27/03/2001

  • Pentagon study recommends smaller, more mobile US forces for Europe

    [Bush shakes hands after speaking to a Business Roundtable Meeting in the East Room of the White House on June 20. Read photo caption below]. WASHINGTON,(AFP) - A Pentagon study made public Friday recommends the US military move away from a large, fixed presence in Europe and Japan and instead use its bases there as staging areas for smaller, more.. More

    809 27/03/2001

  • Solana Upbeat on Macedonia Truce But Deal Elusive

    [Macedonia resumed its assault on the village held by ethnic Albanian fighters.Read photo caption below] SKOPJE (Reuters) - A top Western envoy said on Saturday he was optimistic a cease-fire could be reinstated in Macedonia but there was no sign of a formal announcement after the second day of heavy bombardment of Albanian rebels. European Union.. More

    812 27/03/2001

  • Diplomats push to save ceasefire but one Palestinian killed in fresh violence

    [Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (R) meets U.S. envoy to the Middle East William Burns June 23, 2001 in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Read photo caption below]. GAZA CITY, June 23 (AFP) - The faltering Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire was closer to going off the rails Saturday as another Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli troops despite intensive.. More

    813 27/03/2001

  • Russia Claims Killing A Top Chechen Resistance Leader, Strikers Demand Talks

    [A pro-Kremlin Chechen serviceman of special forces unit stands on guard in Chechen capital Grozny.Read photo caption below]. SLEPTSOVSK, Russia (Islamweb & Agencies) - Russian occupation forces sweeping through villages near Chechnya's capital claim to have killed several Resistance men active in nearly two years of warfare, including one of the.. More

    835 27/03/2001

  • Macedonia on Brink After Protests, Fresh Fighting

    [Photo shows several thousand angry demonstrators gathering outside the parliament building in the Macedonian capital, Skopje, to protest against what they see as the government's leniency towards ethnic Muslim Albanians fighting for equal rights] BELGRADE (Islamweb & Agencies) - Yugoslavia moved closer Monday to handing over former President Slobodan.. More

    846 27/03/2001

  • Yugoslavia Moves Closer to Milosevic Handover

    [Yugoslavia has begun legal procedures to transfer former President Slobodan Milosevic to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague]. BELGRADE (Islamweb & Agencies) - Yugoslavia moved closer Monday to handing over former President Slobodan Milosevic for an international trial on Kosovo war crimes charges, taking the first legal step required for his.. More

    847 27/03/2001

  • Chechen Resistance Confirms Russian Claims of Killing A Top Chechen National Leader

    [Chechen martyr, Arbi Barayev] MOSCOW (Islamweb & Agencies) - Russia hailed on Monday the death of Chechen Resistance leader Arbi Barayev, after its troops recovered the body of the exceptional resistancefield commander who has led many successful operations against the Russian invading forces. Russian television said several thousand crack troops.. More

    848 27/03/2001

  • UN to hold key meetings on

    [Map shows site of attack by US and British warplanes that caused the deaths of 23 Iraqis and the injury of many others in an air strike on the Talafar district near the northern city of Mosul]. UNITED NATIONS, (AFP) - The United Nations will this week hold a series of key meetings aimed at deciding the outcome of a US-British proposal to impose.. More

    849 27/03/2001

  • Syria's Assad arrives in France

    [Chirac welcomes Assad in Paris. Read photo caption below]. PARIS, (Islamweb & Agencies) - Syria's president Bashar al-Assad met with his French counterpart, Jacques Chirac, Monday. The two leaders met for more than two hours at the presidential Elysee Palace following Assad's arrival, for talks that focused on the search for peace in the Middle East,.. More

    850 27/03/2001

  • Iraq Says Western Raid Kills 23, Allies Deny Attack

    [Western warplanes target a playing field in a northern Iraqi town. Read photo caption below] BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq said on Wednesday 23 people were killed and 11 wounded when Western warplanes targeted a playing field in a northern Iraqi town, but Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld charged that Iraqi ground fire might have caused any such deaths... More

    778 26/03/2001

  • Seventy people hurt in Cairo clashes between Copts, police.

    [Coptic Christians demonstrate Monday, June 18, 2001. Read photo caption below]. CAIRO, June 20 (AFP) - Forty police and thirty demonstrators were lightly injured Wednesday night in clashes during a protest by young members of Egypt's Coptic Christian minority outside the Coptic cathedral in Cairo, police said. Coptic youth have been protesting.. More

    779 26/03/2001

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