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  • Israel to Lift Bethlehem Cordon for All but Arafat

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israel said it would lift an army cordon on the West Bank town of Bethlehem for continuing Christian seasonal festivities, but Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was still banned from going to Jesus's birthplace. The measure came toward the end of a day of relative calm and talk of ideas to end 15 months of bloodshed.. More

  • Bin Laden Warns U.S. Its End Is Imminent

    DUBAI (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Osama bin Laden warns the United States in his latest video message that it will soon collapse, regardless of whether he lives or dies, as Muslims around the world ``awaken to its tyranny.'' Qatar's al-Jazeera television broadcast the full tape on Thursday, after airing excerpts on Wednesday. In it, the world's most.. More

  • Turkey Says U.S. to Discuss Any Action Against Iraq

    ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said on Thursday the United States had promised to discuss with Ankara any steps it might consider taking against Iraq in its war on terrorism. NATO member Turkey has opposed strikes against neighboring Iraq, fearing that taking military action against Iraq for its refusal to allow U.N. weapons.. More

  • Palestinians Call for Renewed U.S. Peacemaking

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Palestinians have called for renewed U.S. mediation in the Middle East, saying they were ready to show what they had done to meet Washington's conditions for the return of its envoy. But the planned funeral on Saturday of a suspected Palestinian Resistancebomber killed by Israeli occupation troops on Friday highlighted.. More

  • Tension Continues To Build up on Indian Pakistani Border

    NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD (Islamweb & News Agencies) - India and Pakistan traded tit-for-tat sanctions on Thursday as the nuclear rivals continued their biggest military build-up in almost 15 years, stoking fears of war. India, angry at Pakistan's ``unacceptable failure'' to crush anti-Indian militants fighting its rule in Kashmir, also rejected pressure.. More

  • Pakistan Asks India to End Border Standoff

    ISLAMABAD (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Pakistan urged India on Wednesday to pull its troops back to peacetime locations and said it would only move the ``bare minimum'' of its own forces to the border as tensions mounted between the two nuclear rivals. A foreign ministry spokesman Aziz Ahmed Khan told CNN Islamabad did not want to aggravate the situation.. More

  • Another Palestinian is killed; Latest Israeli Peace Offer, a Non-starter: Abed Rebbo

    JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - An Israeli helicopter gunship killed a Palestinian during a battle between occupation soldiers and Resistance men in the West Bank on Wednesday in fresh violence that overshadowed a rare session of security talks between the sides. Israeli and Palestinian security officials held a meeting on the Gaza Strip border.. More

  • Israel's Labor Party Gets New Leader

    JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's defense minister won the leadership of the fractured Labor Party, party officials said early Thursday, bolstering Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's governing coalition. Binyamin Ben-Eliezer's victory followed a contentious four-month battle over primary results and a partial revote. His opponent, Parliament Speaker Avraham Burg,.. More

  • The Latest Bin Ladin Video Tape

    DUBAI (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Osama bin Laden, America'smost wanted man, said in a video broadcast on Wednesday that the West loathed Islam, and that the September 11 attacks were aimed at U.S. support for Israel. ``It is very clear that the West in general, spearheaded by America, holds an undescribable amount of Crusader loathing for Islam,.. More

  • British Shoe Bomber Suspect 'Did Not Act Alone'

    LONDON (Reuters) - A man suspected of trying to blow up a transatlantic airliner with explosives hidden in his shoes was a British convert to Islam who almost certainly did not act alone, the head of his London mosque said Wednesday. The suspect, who was carrying a British passport in the name of Richard Reid when he boarded a Miami-bound flight in.. More

  • U.S. Dismisses Iraqi 'No Fly' Zone Hit Claim

    WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The Defense Department dismissed as baseless on Wednesday an Iraqi claim that it hit a coalition aircraft enforcing a ``no-fly'' zone in southern Iraq. speaking for both the United States and Britain, which also patrols the exclusion zones in the north and south of Iraq, navy Lt. Cmdr. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon.. More

  • Pakistan Detains Kashmiri Resistance Leader

    ISLAMABAD (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Pakistan detained on Tuesday a prominent Kashmiri Resistance leader, Maulana Azhar Masood, at his house in the central province of Punjab, a government spokesman said. ``I confirm he has been detained,'' the military government's top spokesman, Major-General Rashid Qureshi, told Reuters when asked about the Jaish-i-Moha.. More

  • Yemen Expands Qaeda Hunt, Arrests Other Militants

    SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen has expanded its week-long search for suspected backers of Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network and arrested militants belonging to other factions, a government official said on Tuesday. The campaign to arrest three suspected militants associated with al Qaeda ``has been expanded to include any Islamic extremist elements from.. More

  • Somali Regional Chief Denies Terror Cells in Area

    NAIROBI (Reuters) - The president of an autonomous region in Somalia cited by the United States as a possible haven for Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda militants insisted Tuesday the area had been free of extremists for almost a decade. Jama Ali Jama, elected in November as president of the internationally unrecognized region of Puntland, made the statement.. More

  • Turkish General: Don't Target Iraq

    ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Turkey's top general argued against targeting Iraq in the U.S.-led war on terrorism, saying Tuesday that it could lead to an undesired Kurdish state on Turkey's borders. Turkey supports the current war on terrorism and served as the launching pad for attacks against Iraq during the 1991 Gulf Warand host U.S. and British warplanes.. More