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  • Israel Strikes Palestinian Police HQ, Wounding 15

    GAZA (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israeli warplanes launched a missile strike in the Gaza Strip on Friday on the Palestinian Authority's main police headquarters, wounding at least 15 officers, witnesses and hospital officials said. Israel launched Friday's attacks just hours after U.S envoy Anthony Zinni met Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah.. More

    2735 22/05/2001

  • Taliban Give Up Kandahar, Bin Laden Nowhere To Be Found

    KABUL/QUETTA, Pakistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Taliban fighters began surrendering in Kandahar on Friday as the militia that had imposed its harsh version of Islam on Afghanistan finally disintegrated after weeks of pulverizing U.S. air strikes. The battered country's new designated leader, cutting through earlier uncertainty about how he would.. More

    2737 22/05/2001

  • Palestinian Internal Strife Looms Over the On-going Arrest of Resistance Leaders

    GAZA (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Gunfire erupted when thousands of Palestinians clashed with police on Thursday, venting fury at the Palestinian Authority's decision to put militant Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin under house arrest. One protester and a policeman were slightly injured in the gunfire outside Yassin's home as Israel and the United.. More

    2719 22/05/2001

  • UN to Endorse Afghan Share-power Accord

    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - France and Britain introduced a U.N. Security Council resolution on Wednesday that would endorse a landmark accord reached among Afghan factions but hold off on a peacekeeping force until the United States agrees to one. The 15-member council expects to vote on Thursday, its current president, Moctar Ouane of Mali, said after.. More

    2720 22/05/2001

  • Air Strikes May Have Killed A Bin Laden Son And Zawahri’s Family

    WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Unconfirmed intelligence reports suggest that U.S. airstrikes on Afghanistan may have killed a son or son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, a U.S. official said on Wednesday. ``There are reports that perhaps a son or son-in-law might have been killed, can't confirm either,'' the official told Reuters on condition of.. More

    2721 22/05/2001

  • Macedonia Pardons 11 Albanian Fighters

    SKOPJE (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski pardoned 11 jailed ethnic Albanian fighters on Wednesday, launching an amnesty regarded as crucial to sustaining an August peace settlement. Justice ministry sources told Reuters the 11 were freed from Skopje's grim Sutka detention center later in the day and another 77 on the.. More

    2722 22/05/2001

  • Russia and U.S. cut nuclear arsenals to comply with treaty

    MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and the United States said on Wednesday they had slashed their strategic weapons stockpile down to the levels required by the START-1 treaty, signed by the United States and the Soviet Union in 1991. A Russian Foreign Ministry statement said Russia had cut the number of vehicles to 1,136 and the number of nuclear warheads.. More

    2724 22/05/2001

  • At Least Two Indian Soldiers Killed in A Resistance Attack in Kashmir

    SRINAGAR, India (Islamweb & News Agencies) - A Resistancesquad of a nationalist Kashmiri group attacked an Indian army camp in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, killing at least two soldiers, police and the militant group said. Three Resistance menfrom the Lashkar-e-Taiba group died in the gunbattle that followed the attack in Bagatpora in Kupwara district,.. More

    2726 22/05/2001

  • A Bloody New Phase in The Mideast conflict

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israel launched air strikes on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's helicopter compound in the Gaza Strip and on the West Bank city of Jenin on Monday in retaliation for a devastating wave of Resistance bombings. The upsurge of violence threatened to wreck a U.S. peace drive intended to help bolster Arab support.. More

    2700 21/05/2001

  • Afghans Agree to Government Plan in Bonn While Taliban Fights On in Kandahar

    BONN/KABUL (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Afghan factions agreed on a blueprint for an interim government at talks in Germany on Tuesday as fighting raged around the last strongholds of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. The breakthrough came after a week of grueling talks between the rival groups in a top-security hotel outside Bonn. U.N. officials said.. More

    2709 21/05/2001

  • Malaysia Braces for Influx of Philippine Refugees

    KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia must be prepared to face a possible flood of Philippine refugees following the conflict in the southern part of that country, Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi was quoted as saying on Sunday. Violence flared in the southern Philippines last month after followers of Filipino Muslim leader Nur Misuari staged a failed.. More

    2678 21/05/2001

  • Nepal deploys more troops to fight Maoist rebels

    KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal reinforced troops fighting an uprising by Maoist insurgents on Sunday as the rebels attacked government installations and a foreign aid agency, officials said. The rebels, fighting to replace the impoverished kingdom's constitutional monarchy with a communist republic, attacked the office of Adventist Development and Relief.. More

    2679 21/05/2001

  • China Ends AIDS Silence, Mandela Calls for Drugs

    LONDON (Reuters) - A veil of secrecy still shrouds AIDS in some countries 20 years after it first reared its head but on Saturday China, the latest convert to openness, marked World AIDS Day by airing a shocking TV drama on the disease. In South Africa, where more people live with HIV/AIDS than in any other country and the government is widely criticized.. More

    2680 21/05/2001

  • Palestinian Police Rounds up Resistance leaders & Washington Won't Restrain Israel

    TEL AVIV (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon returned to Israel from Washington on Monday to decide how to respond to Palestinian Resistance attacks that killed at least 25 people and wounded about 200. Sharon began talks at Ben Gurion airport with his foreign and defense ministers and other occupation authority chiefs before a.. More

    2691 21/05/2001

  • Post-Taliban Government Begins Take Shape as Battle For Kandahar Continues To Build Up

    BONN/KABUL (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Rival Afghan factions meeting in Germany made progress toward setting up a new, interim government for Afghanistan on Sunday as U.S. bombers and ethnic Pashtun fighters pounded away at Kandahar, the Taliban's last bastion in the war-shattered country. With the U.S. military declaring that the battle for Kandahar.. More

    2692 21/05/2001

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