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  • 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

  • Bosnian Serb Srebrenica Suspect Surrenders

    THE HAGUE (Reuters) - A Bosnian Serb army officer wanted on murder and other charges stemming from the Srebrenica massacre turned himself in to the United Nations war crimes tribunal Wednesday and was flown to The Hague for trial. Lieutenant-Colonel Dragan Jokic, 43, surrendered at a NATO base near Banja Luka in Bosnia, his lawyer told Reuters. (Read.. More

  • 3 Britons Confess to Saudi Bombings

    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Three British men arrested in Saudi Arabia in connection with bombings in December, January and March confessed on state-run TV Monday. The arrests were announced Monday minutes before the men appeared on TV. They spoke in English with a voice-over in Arabic. The three men identified themselves as James Patrick Lee, James.. More

  • NATO Experts to Macedonia to Try to Bolster Truce

    SKOPJE, Macedonia (Isalmweb & News Agencies) - NATO experts arrive in Macedonia on Tuesday to try to shore up a cease-fire between government forces and ethnic Albanian fighters and so bolster a new plan to prevent a Balkan war.Leaders of the four main Macedonian and ethnic Albanian parties signed a peace deal on Monday aiming to end the six-month armed.. 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

  • Russia Rejects ABM Withdrawal

    MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putinstood firm Monday against American determination to abandon the landmark 1972 treaty banning national missile defenses.And while Putin expressed hope for a new deal on nuclear arms cuts, his government made clear that it expects detailed, potentially lengthy negotiations, which President Bush is determined.. More

  • Beithlehem, Next Target of Israeli Tank Incursions into Palestinian-ruled Territory

    BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israeli tanks moved into positions near the West Bank town of Bethlehem hours after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned the Palestinian Authority it could pay a heavy price if a 10-month-old uprising does not end.The midnight movement of at least a dozen tanks on Tuesday night came 24 hours after Israeli.. 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

  • Albanians in Macedonia Agree to Lay Down Arms as NATO Prepares to Deploy

    SKOPJE, (Islamweb & News Agencies) -NATO persuaded ethnic Albanian fighters in Macedonia to lay down their guns Tuesday, paving the way for the alliance to send a British-led force to oversee the disarmament plan. The news was welcomed as a boost to the fragile peace process after a day when Monday's breakthrough accord on constitutional reform was.. More

  • Diplomats show up in Kabul

    KABUL, Afghanistan, (News Agencies) —  Three Western diplomats arrived Tuesday in Kabul hoping to see eight foreign aid workers held on charges of trying to convert Muslims to Christianity. TheTaliban Islamist movement has said there will be no consular access to the workers(Read photo caption below).  THE DIPLOMATS planned to lobby for the release.. More

  • Britain Said to Be Planning to Win Over IRA

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain was reported Wednesday to be planning to press ahead with two key peace proposals for Northern Ireland in an attempt to persuade the IRA to rejoin guerrilla disarmament efforts.To dangle a carrot in front of the IRA, the British government would start implementing proposals to scale back its military presence in the province.. More

  • Abus Sneineh, Latest Israeli Targeted Killing

    HEBRON, West Bank (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Undercover Israeli assassins shot dead a member of Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction on Wednesday fueling tension already stoked by Israeli occupation troop movements.Imad Abu Sneineh was shot in the head, chest, stomach and legs by 10 bullets fired from a truck with Palestinian number plates outside his home.. More