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  • NATO Commander in Macedonia to Assess Mission Risks

    SKOPJE (Islamweb & News Agencies) - NATO's commander-in-chief was due in Macedonia on Monday to assess whether a shaky truce was firm enough for the alliance to launch its third mission in the Balkans since the Yugoslav federation fell apart in 1991.U.S. General Joseph Ralston's visit will be brief. But his judgement will be vital to a decision by NATO's.. More

  • Russians Mark 10 Years After Coup

    MOSCOW (AP) - Russians looked back Sunday on the bungled hard-line coup exactly 10 years ago that fatally wounded the USSR, with some pining for the democratic passions that fired resistance to the coup plotters, others cursing the hardships that have accompanied freedom.Russian President Vladimir Putin stayed conspicuously silent on the anniversary,.. More

  • Hamas Vows to Avenge Latest Israeli Assassinations against Intifadha Activists

    GAZA (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The military wing of the Muslim Resistance group Hamas said on Monday it had Palestinian bombers in Israel waiting for orders to avenge the killing in the Gaza Strip of a Palestinian intifadha activist and his two children. (Read photo caption below)Samir Abu Zeid, identified as the ``general'' of the Palestinian Popular.. More

  • Islamic Nations Want Protection for Palestinians

    UNITED NATIONS (Islamweb & Agencies) - Palestinians rebuked the U.N. Security Council and the United States on Monday for not taking action in the West Bank and Gaza, saying the lack of an international presence contributed to 11 months of brutal Israeli reaction to a Palestinian uprising against occupation. (Read photo caption below)But Washington,.. More

  • Diplomats to Leave Afghanistan

    KABUL, Afghanistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Rejected by the Taliban, three diplomats said Monday they had to give up for now on their bid to see foreign relief workers, including two Americans, who were jailed for propagating Christianity in this Muslim nation.But the envoys from the United States, Australia and Germany said they would continue.. More

  • Bomb Injures 14 in Eastern Pakistan

    LAHORE, Pakistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - A powerful bomb exploded in eastern Pakistan Monday, wounding at least 14 people, including a 3-year-old child, police said.The bomb, which police said was apparently tied to a motorcycle, detonated in an old neighborhood of the border city of Lahore, the capital of Punjab province. No group has claimed.. More

  • Sri Lanka Rebels Storm Police Station, 17 Dead

    COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger guerrillas attacked a police station in the east of the country on Tuesday, leaving at least 17 dead and 18 wounded, the military said. The rebels briefly overran the Central Camp police station in Ampara District, some 150 miles east of the capital Colombo, before they were beaten back by reinforcements of.. More

  • NATO Sends Troops to Macedonia

    SKOPJE, Macedonia (Islamweb & News Agencies) - NATO took its first tentative steps toward involvement in Macedonia Friday, sending a small detachment of troops to scout out the situation and see if a full force should be sent to collect Albanian weapons.NATO's ruling council decided Friday to defer until early next week a decision on whether to send.. More

  • Blasts Rock Indonesian Celebration

    JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Heavily armed troops patrolled the deserted streets of a restive provincial capital Friday, after separatists marred Indonesia's independence-day celebrations by setting off 16 small bombs.Meanwhile, Indonesia's political elite gathered at the state palace in Jakarta on Friday for an emotional ceremony at which new President.. More

  • Six Killed in Resistance and Counter Resistance Attacks in Kashmir

    JAMMU, Indian-ruled Kashmir (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Six people have been killed in two separate incidents in Indian-ruled Kashmirwhere the war for self-determination has soared since last month's fruitless talks between India and Pakistan.(Read photo caption below). An Indianpolice spokesman said border guards early on Friday killed three Resistance.. More

  • Rumsfeld: U.S. Military May Scrap Two-War Plan

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld suggested on Friday the U.S. military was likely to scrap its current ``two-war'' battle plan, instead preparing to win one major conflict decisively while simultaneously repelling aggression elsewhere. ``I must say that I am increasingly comfortable with this force-sizing construct,'' he told.. More

  • 22 Killed in Latest Wave of Political Violence in Algeria

    ALGIERS, (Islamweb & News Agencies) -Seventeen people have been killed by an armed group manning a roadblock in Algeria, locals of the Relizane region where the attack took place, police said on Monday.(Read photo caption below) The victims, all farmworkers, were travelling on small trucks when they drove into the ambush overnight Sunday close to the.. More

  • Afghan Taliban Say Foreign Aid Workers Face Trial

    KABUL (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said Monday that eight foreign aid workers held on charges of trying to convert Muslims to Christianity would have to face trial.(Read photo caption below)The Taliban ruled out any pardon for the four German, two Australian and two American aid workers, and said diplomats from their countries.. More

  • Palestinians Seek Action From U.N. Security Council

    UNITED NATIONS (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Palestinian diplomats sought action from the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to halt Israel's seizure of key Palestinian offices and raids into the West Bank. Nasser al-Kidwa, the Palestinian U.N. observer, said he would request a meeting of the 15-member council on Israel's takeover last Friday of Orient.. More

  • American Planes Strike Radar Site in Southern Iraq

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. planes bombed a site in southern Iraq on Tuesday to knock out a radar that helps Baghdad track and target Western aircraft, in the latest of a string of hits on Iraqi military targets, the Pentagon said.The second strike in less than a week was conducted at about 8:15 a.m. EDT at an-Nasiriyah, about 175 miles southeast of.. More