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American Bombers Hit Tora Bora Caves As Pushtun Leaders Workout Differences in Kandahar
TORA BORA, Afghanistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - American bombers pounded the hills and caves of Tora Bora on Sunday, trying to soften al-Qaida defenses for a ground assault by Afghan tribesmen. Pakistani forces moved to seal off escape routes on their side of the border. In the south, rival tribal leaders worked out differences over the administration.. More -
US-Brokered Security Talks Resume in the Territories Despite On-going Intifadha Confrontations
JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israeli and Palestinian security chiefs prepared to square off on Sunday for another tense round of U.S.-brokered talks as violence on the ground showed no sign of easing. The previous round of talks on Friday, aimed at ending nearly 15 months of bloodshed, almost degenerated into a brawl, a Palestinian official.. More -
Inter-Tribal Tension Mounts Over Spoils of Kandahar
KABUL/CHAMAN, Pakistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - U.S. Marines in Afghanistan focused on the hunt for U.S. public enemy number one Osama bin Laden on Saturday as tribal groups clashed and bickered over the spoils of the Taliban's fallen stronghold of Kandahar. The Taliban abandoned southern Kandahar, their birthplace and last bastion, on Friday as.. More -
Pakistani Gunships to Hunt Afghan Fugitives
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Saturday it had moved helicopter gunships and troop reinforcements to its long border with Afghanistan to prevent fleeing Taliban or members of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network sneaking into the country. Top military spokesman Major-General Rashid Qureshi told reporters neither the Saudi-born militant bin Laden.. More -
Yemen Blast Kills Three Men, Injures One
SANAA (Reuters) - Three men were killed and one was injured in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Saturday when hand grenades they had in their car exploded, officials said. Yemen's official Saba news agency quoted a senior Interior Ministry official as saying preliminary investigations suggested there were no sabotage motives behind the incident, which occurred.. More -
Nobel Winners Urge Release of Myanmar's Suu Kyi
OSLO (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winners and world leaders appealed to Myanmar's military junta Saturday to free the 1991 laureate, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, from house arrest and to shift to democracy. Former winners South African anti-apartheid advocate Desmond Tutu and East Timorese independence campaigner Jose Ramos Horta led the call.. More -
Irish Launch Probe of Dead Refugees in Container
WEXFORD, Ireland (Reuters) - Ireland launched a massive investigation on Saturday after eight refugees, including two children, were found dead in a shipping container. ``We certainly will do all in our power, with the help of our colleagues, to bring those people that are responsible for trafficking to justice,'' police Superintendent John Farrelly.. More -
OIC Backs UN Afghan Pact, Urges Help for New Govt.
ISLAMABAD (OIC) on Thursday backed a U.N.-brokered power-sharing deal signed by rival Afghan groups and urged member states to help the new government. OIC secretary-general Abdelouahed Belkeziz told a news conference after two days of talks with Pakistani authorities that the OIC group supported the deal signed on Wednesday in Bonn after more than.. More -
U.S. Troops in Southern Philippines
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (Islamweb & News Agencies) - At least 16 U.S. soldiers landed in the southern Philippines on Friday as Filipino troops battled religious extremists holding two American missionaries some 12 miles away. It was unclear why the Americans had been dispatched amid an ongoing clash with Abu Sayyaf rebels that had left at least three.. More -
Taliban Abandon Kandahar, Inter-Pashtoon Differences Emerge
KABUL/QUETTA, Pakistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The Taliban abandoned their last stronghold of Kandahar on Friday as the militia disintegrated after weeks of pulverizing U.S. air strikes. But as rival groups tussled over control of the city, any prospect that opposition tribal groups or the United States might collar Taliban supreme leader Mullah.. More -
NATO Head Says Defense Clause May Cover Iraq -Paper
BERLIN (Reuters) - NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson believes NATO's mutual defense clause, invoked after the September 11 attacks on the United States, will not be lifted immediately and could be used to cover action elsewhere, such as in Iraq, German newspaper Die Welt said on Friday. ``Should evidence be put forward that Iraq is involved, Article.. More -
U.S. Looking Into Possible Somali Terror Links
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The U.S. government said on Friday it was worried about possible links between extremist groups in Somalia and al Qaeda but was gathering more information, not mapping offensives. There has been widespread speculation the U.S. is planning a military campaign on Somalia as a second phase in its war on terror, but U.S. Assistant Secretary.. More -
Israel’s Missile Attacks Continue Despite US-Brokered Security Talks
GAZA (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israeli helicopter gunships struck a Palestinian government compound in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, driving home Israel's demand that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat do more to rein in militants. On Friday, Israeli warplanes bombed the Palestinian Authority's main police headquarters, wounding at least.. More -
US Forces Suspension of Germ War Pact
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States forced a germ warfare conference to break up on Friday without new measures to toughen an international ban, angering its European allies. In a bid to save face, the review conference of the 1972 Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention opted formally to suspend work for a year until November 2002 after Washington.. More -
Chirac Urges Talks on Yugoslavia, Hague Cooperation
BELGRADE (Reuters) - French President Jacques Chirac urged Serbia and independence-minded Montenegro on Friday to resume talks on future relations, making clear the European Union view they should stay together in a reformed Yugoslavia. Chirac, the first head of state from a major Western power to visit Belgrade since the ousting of Slobodan Milosevic.. More
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