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Muhammad Naeem (L), a spokesman for the Office of the Taliban of Afghanistan speaks during the opening of the Taliban Afghanistan Political Office in Doha on Tuesday. (Reuters)
Top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, Joseph Dunford, talks to media representatives at the ISAF headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday. (AP)

Taleban open Qatar office; US signals meetings to begin

KABUL: The Taleban yesterday opened an office in Qatar in a bid to start “dialogue with the world” as US officials said they hoped to meet the insurgents within days, after the Afghan...

Where Is Saddam?

Tuesday 15 April 2003

LONDON, 15 April 2003 — The United States says it does not know if Saddam Hussein, targeted in two airstrikes on Baghdad and hunted by US and British forces, is dead or alive.

Shiites Stage Show of Force

Tuesday 15 April 2003

BAGHDAD, 15 April 2003 — Baghdad’s Shiites, part of the majority religious group in Iraq, have broken a long silence to claim a status commensurate with the size of their community in any post-Sad

Baghdad Area Proud to Resist US Forces

Tuesday 15 April 2003

BAGHDAD, 15 April 2003 — More than 20 “martyrs” are buried under the olive trees outside the Abu Hanifa Mosque, the name of each slipped into Pepsi bottles stuck in the ground.

Israel Jails Four Palestinians for Passover Bombing

Tuesday 15 April 2003

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, 15 April 2003 — An Israeli military court yesterday sentenced four Palestinians found guilty of organizing last year’s Passover bombing in Netanya to 29 life sentences each, wi

Lack of Funds May Limit OAV

Tuesday 15 April 2003

MANILA, 15 April 2003 — Budgetary constraints may compel government to do a limited implementation of Overseas Absentee Voting (OAV) in next year’s elections, the Commission on Elections (Comelec)

UK Says Will No Longer Tolerate Looting in Basra

Tuesday 15 April 2003

AS-SAYLIYA CAMP, Qatar, 15 April 2003 — The British military has moved to a policy of zero tolerance on looting in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, a senior British military spokesman said yesterd

18 Kuwaiti POWs Found in Baghdad: Report

Tuesday 15 April 2003

ABU DHABI, 15 April 2003 — Eighteen Kuwaitis held since the 1991 Gulf War were among prisoners kept in an underground shelter in Baghdad, Abu Dhabi satellite television reported yesterday, quoting

Chalabi Says He Won’t Take Political Role

Tuesday 15 April 2003

PARIS, 15 April 2003 — Iraqi National Congress (INC) leader Ahmad Chalabi, the man tipped to be Iraq’s next leader, said in an interview published here yesterday that he would not seek political o

Seven Missing US Soldiers Found North of Baghdad

Monday 14 April 2003

AS-SALIYAH, 14 April 2003 — Seven US soldiers captured by the Iraqis were freed by marines yesterday and taken for medical treatment, with two suffering gunshot wounds, officials and news reports s

UK Forces Make Futile Search for Basra’s Prisoners

Monday 14 April 2003

BASRA, 14 April 2003 — British Army engineers abandoned their search yesterday for prisoners that locals said were trapped in underground cells beneath the bombed-out ruins of a prison complex in t

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Israel Jails Four Palestinians for Passover Bombing

Lack of Funds May Limit OAV

UK Says Will No Longer Tolerate Looting in Basra

18 Kuwaiti POWs Found in Baghdad: Report

Chalabi Says He Won’t Take Political Role

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