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Said captured, no sign of Osama bin Laden in Kabul

Staff Reporter · Dec 9, 2001 · 1 min read

TORA BORA Dec 7 (Reuters) Anti-Taliban forces have captured the mainbase of Osama bin Laden in the Tora Bora mountains of eastern Afghanistan, but failed to fin...

California father wants to hug, scold, American Taliban supporter

Staff Reporter · Dec 6, 2001 · 2 min read

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (DPA) Frank Lindh, whose 20-year-old American son was captured fighting alongside the Taliban, has said he wanted to both hug and scold John W...

American Taliban fighter held by US troops

Staff Reporter · Dec 5, 2001 · 12 min read

NEW YORK, Dec 3 (Reuters):A 20-year-old American who fought with the Taliban and survived the bloody Kala Jangi prison uprising near Mazar-i-Sharif last week ha...

NA claims capture 4 provinces

Staff Reporter · Nov 11, 2001 · 1 min read

JABAL-US-SARAJ, AFGHANISTAN, Nov 10 (REUTERS): Afghanistans opposition Northern Alliance said they had swept into four more provinces in the north today and Tal...

Jubilant Afghan fighters roll tanks to frontline

Staff Reporter · Nov 11, 2001 · 1 min read

BAGRAM, AFGHANISTAN, Nov 10 (REUTERS): Shouting their glee at their capture of a northern city, Afghan opposition fighters rolled a dozen more tanks towards the...

NA presses forward to Uzbek border

Staff Reporter · Nov 11, 2001 · 4 min read

WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (REUTERS): Afghanistans opposition Northern Alliance was advancing today toward the Uzbek border in the north after seizing the strategic cit...

Taliban defence minister confirms loss of Mazar-i-Sharif

Staff Reporter · Nov 11, 2001 · 1 min read

KABUL, Nov 10 (Reuters) Taliban defence minister Obaidullah Akhund today told Reuters that the militia had lost the strategic northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sh...

Laden claims he has nuclear weapons

Staff Reporter · Nov 11, 2001 · 3 min read

ISLAMABAD, Nov 10 (Reuters) Pakistans Dawn newspaper today said that Osama bin Laden claimed in an interview inside Afghanistan this week that he had nuclear an...

Canada ban on LTTE to affect fund flow

Staff Reporter · Nov 11, 2001 · 2 min read

COLOMBO, November 10 (UNI) Canadas decision to ban the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and freeze its assets is expected to sharply affect the fund flow...

300 Russian firms to supply equipment to Kudankulam plant

Staff Reporter · Nov 11, 2001 · 1 min read

MOSCOW, Nov 10 (UNI) About 300 Russian enterprises will supply equipment to Indias largest nuclear power plant coming up in Kudankulam, with technical aid from ...

Fearful world focusing only on terrorism: Annan

Staff Reporter · Nov 11, 2001 · 2 min read

UNITEDNATION, Nov 10 (Reuters) Declaring poverty, disease, environmental degradation and warfare the enemies of the 21st century, U.N. Secretary-general Kofi An...

Bush-Vajpayee talks positive: White House

Staff Reporter · Nov 11, 2001 · 2 min read

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UNI) The White House has described the meeting between United States president George B Bush and prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee as "ve...

Advani invited to Washington

Staff Reporter · Nov 11, 2001 · 2 min read

WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (UNI) Home minister L K Advani has been invited to visit Washington to discuss counter-terrorism cooperation, including an agreement on a joi...

Vajpayees Britain trip to cement cooperation

Staff Reporter · Nov 11, 2001 · 3 min read

LONDON, Nov 10 (uni) Prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee arrives here on Monday for a days visit aimed at building upon the solid foundations of ties between In...

Laden rules out facing trial in any country, criticises Musharraf

Staff Reporter · Nov 11, 2001 · 2 min read

ISLAMABAD, Nov 10 (UNI) Osama bin Laden has virtually ruled out facing trial in any Muslim country for the crimes he is accused of, saying that if the United St...

Afghan opposition set to open Uzbek frontier

Staff Reporter · Nov 11, 2001 · 1 min read

ISLAMABAD, Nov 10 (Reuters) Anti-Taliban Northern Alliance forces commanded by former communist General Abdul Rashid Dostum are advancing toward the Uzbek borde...

Pak fears showdown with pro-Taliban tribals

Staff Reporter · Nov 11, 2001 · 2 min read

ISLAMABAD, Nov 10 (UNI) The Pakistan government fears a showdown with tribals of the federally administered tribal areas (FATA), who are up in arms with 15,000 ...

No pause in US bombing after Northern victory

Staff Reporter · Nov 11, 2001 · 1 min read

BAGRAM, AFGHANISTAN, Nov 10 (Reuters) Within hours of the opposition capture of the northern Taliban-held city of Mazar-i-Sharif, U.S. Jets resumed their punish...

UN readies new sites for Afghan refugees

Staff Reporter · Nov 11, 2001 · 4 min read

PESHAWAR (PAKISTAN), Nov 10 (Reuters) The UN refugee agency today vrepared a remote fite in northern tribalareas and another on the south of Pakistans frontier,...

US snub endangers terror alliance: Saudi media

Staff Reporter · Nov 11, 2001 · 3 min read

RIYADH, Nov 10 (Reuters), Saudi media deemed US president George W Bushs refusal to meet Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat a calculated snub today and said Washi...

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