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UN Approves New International Force for Afghans

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Thursday authorized an international force to help keep the peace in the Afghan capital Kabul, with Britain leading the troops and the United States prepared to rescue them in an emergency. The 15-member council voted unanimously just two days before a vanguard of some 250 British soldiers will.. More

2938 28/05/2001
Tension in the Himalayas Forms Uneasy Backdrop To Musharaf’s China Visit

BEIJING (Islamweb & News Agencies) - President Pervez Musharraf reassured old friend China on Thursday it was a cornerstone of Pakistan's foreign policy as his country and arch-rival India traded fire across a cease-fire line dividing Kashmir. Musharraf wasted no time in emphasizing that Sino-Pakistani relations remain strong despite Pakistan's commitment.. More

2939 28/05/2001
India Says Aims to Avoid War with Pakistan

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee promised on Wednesday to make every effort to prevent war with Pakistan but said options were still open in a tense stand-off over an attack on India's parliament. Vajpayee said New Delhi would first use diplomatic means to convince Pakistan to close down two Pakistan-based Kashmiri separatist.. More

2927 28/05/2001
U.S Asks For More From Palestinians & Israelis; E-U Pessimistic

JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The United States is pressing Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to do more to translate into action his call for an end to violent Resistance attacks on Israelis. Delivering the message in telephone calls on Tuesday, Secretary of State Colin Powell also urged Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to be ready to.. More

2908 28/05/2001
Israel Reportedly Maintains Contacts with Palestinians

JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israel is holding high-level contacts with Palestinian officials despite its decision to sever ties with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, Israeli sources said Tuesday. ``There are contacts under way at different levels and varying degrees of intensity,'' an Israeli Foreign Ministry source said. ``There is.. More

2909 28/05/2001
US fears India, Pakistan tensions may spiral out of control

WASHINGTON, (AFP)-The United States urged India and Pakistan to tone down their rhetoric after last week's attack on the Indian parliament boosted tension between the nuclear rivals US officials fear "could spiral out of control." The White House and the State Department said the two south Asian nuclear rivals needed to weigh carefully any steps they.. More

2910 28/05/2001
First Yemeni Action Against Al-Qaeda

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni forces stormed a hide-out of Islamic militants linked to Osama bin Laden on Tuesday in the first military action of its kind in Yemen since the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. Tribal and security sources told Reuters that 12 people from both sides were killed and at least 22 wounded when special forces used helicopters.. More

2912 28/05/2001
Bin Laden location a mystery after loyalists routed

TORA BORA, Afghanistan/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, the world's most wanted man, remained a mystery on Tuesday as U.S. and Afghan forces hunted his routed fighters in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said the United States did not know whether the Saudi-born millionaire it blames.. More

2913 28/05/2001
Karzai Vows to End Rule of Gun in Afghanistan

ROME (Reuters) - Hamid Karzai, chosen to lead the new Afghanistan, said on Wednesday he felt the great weight of his task but vowed to end terrorism, ``warlordism'' and the rule of the gun in a country he wants to rebuild almost from scratch. ``I am very, very determined...Terrorism has made our people suffer unbelievably difficult times,'' he said.. More

2914 28/05/2001
Hamas Considers Halting Resistance Attacks & Battles Palestinian Police in Gaza

GAZA (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Hamas Resistance fought a gun battle on Thursday with Palestinian security forces trying to arrest one of the group's senior political leaders, witnesses and security sources said. The shooting erupted in the Gaza Strip after dozens of Hamas members surrounded the home of Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi when Palestinian police.. More

2922 28/05/2001
Al Qaeda Captives Turn on Pakistan Guards, 14 Dead

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Fourteen people were killed on Wednesday when captured fighters of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda seized Pakistani army guards' weapons while being moved to jail by bus and opened fire, government officials said. The gunbattle in the Kurram tribal agency near the Afghan frontier region of Tora Bora sparked a huge manhunt,.. More

2923 28/05/2001
Yemen in Pursuit of Suspected Al Qaeda Militants

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen on Wednesday sent special army troops led by the son of President Ali Abdullah Saleh to search for Muslim militants linked to Osama bin Laden a day after clashes killed at least 18 people from both sides. ``Special units led by Colonel Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh...have been dispatched to support army units in Marib and Shabwa.. More

2925 28/05/2001
Is Somalia Next Target for U.S.?

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - A senior German official said Wednesday that the United States had marked war-ravaged Somalia as the next target in its global fight against Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, but Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the report was ``flat wrong.'' The German official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it is no longer.. More

2926 28/05/2001
Britain Says to Lead Afghan Force of Up to 5,000

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain committed around 1,500 troops on Wednesday to lead a peacekeeping force in Afghanistan which it said could number up to 5,000 in total, but would not be fully in place for at least a month. ``I can now confirm that the United Kingdom is formally prepared to take on the leadership of an International Security Assistance Force,''.. More

2924 28/05/2001
US Special Forces Reported in Pakistan to Head off Qaeda Fleeing Fighters

WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The United States on Monday intensified the hunt for al Qaeda fighters after the apparent fall of their cave compound at Tora Bora in Afghanistan, with one U.S. television network reporting U.S. special forces were dispatched to Pakistan to head off fleeing al-Qaeda fighters. Amid reports Saudi-born militant.. More

2900 27/05/2001

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