23:20
BLAIR ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT RUSSIAN ANTI-TERROR CONTRIBUTION
"Outstanding," Prime Minister Tony Blair says of what Russia is doing on the anti-terror cause. More details...

23:18
MACEDONIA PRESIDENT PROPOSES ALBANIAN FIGHTERS BE PARDONED
President Boris Trajkovski of Macedonia submitted proposal to the cabinet Monday to pardon members of the so called national liberation army. More details...

23:16
AMERICA URGES MUSLIM COUNTRIES TO MAKE WAR: IRAQI FOREIGN MINISTER
As Iraq sees it, US strikes on Afghanistan are urging Muslim states to make war, says Naji Sabri, Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs. More details...

23:15
AFGHANS TO DETERMINE THEIR COUNTRY'S FUTURE, CALLS RUMSFELD
It is up to Afghans to determine Afghanistan's future, Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence, stressed to a Pentagon news briefing. More details...

23:13
USA ANNOUNCES PROGRESS IN DESTRUCTION OF TALEBAN AIR DEFENSE
On Monday Donald Rumsfeld, head of the Pentagon, stated that in the course of the first wave of air strikes against Afghanistan last Sunday certain progress was achieved in elimination of Taleban air defense. More details...

23:10
US PLANES COME UNDER TALIBAN FIRE
The Taliban forces are firing anti-aircraft guns and even anti-aircraft missiles at US planes, general Richard B.Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staffs, has told a news briefing in the Pentagon. Talibs are reported to use portable launchers of anti-aircraft missiles during US air-raids, according to the general. More details...

23:09
BLAIR: FIRST RAIDS ON AFGHANISTAN SUCCESSFUL
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has described as successful Sunday's raids on military targets in Afghanistan. According to him, some 30 military facilities were hit, including some of Osama bin Laden's terror training camps and key military infrastructure of the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban regime. More details...

22:35
COUNCIL OF EUROPE SUPPORTS ANTI-TERROR ACTION IN AFGHANISTAN
The Council of Europe solidarises with the US-British anti-terror action in Afghanistan, Walter Schwimmer, CE Secretary-General, and Lord Russell-Johnston, President of the CE Parliamentary Assembly, say in a statement circulated on the CE headquarters in Strasbourg. More details...

22:26
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES VOICES SUPPORT FOR ANTI-TERRORIST ACTION IN AFGHANISTAN
The United Arab Emirates supports air strikes on the Afghanistan-based international terrorist centres, reads a statement by the UAE cabinet of ministers. More details...

22:25
YUGOSLAVIA LINES UP SUPPORT FOR INTERNATIONAL ANTI-TERRORIST EFFORT
Yugoslavia lines up "firm support" for the international anti-terrorist coalition, the country's ministry of foreign affairs said Monday. More details...

22:21
TALIBAN PASS DETAINED BRITISH REPORTER TO PAKISTAN
The Sunday Times reporter Yvonne Ridley has been passed to Pakistani authorities. British ambassadorial officers have contacted her in Islamabad, announced Prime Minister Tony Blair. More details...

22:19
US AND BRITISH STRATEGIC AVIATION AND VESSELS PARTICIPATE IN THE SECOND WAVE OF STRIKES AGAINST AFGHANISTAN
According to the report of the RIA Novosti correspondent, General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced at a briefing in Pentagon that US and British strategic aviation and vessels were engaged in the new series of strikes against targets in Afghanistan. More details...

22:18
HEAD OF SPIRITUAL DEPARTMENT OF MOSLEMS OF CAUCASUS HOPES FOR VICTORY OVER TERRORISM
Allakhshukyur Pashazade, Chairman of the Spiritual Department of Moslems of the Caucasus, hopes a fair victory over terrorism will be gained. He said that in a statement which was circulated in Baku on Monday in the wake of the beginning of the US-led anti-terrorist operation in Afghanistan. More details...

22:16
ANTI-TERROR FIGHTING IS NOT TO BE CONFINED TO BIN LADEN ONLY: GEORGE W.BUSH
President George W.Bush believes the anti-terrorist fighting is not limited to the action solely against Osama bin Laden, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer has told reporters. More details...

22:12
USA RESUMED BOMBARDMENTS OF AFGHANISTAN
The RIA Novosti correspondent reports that on Monday the USA resumed bombardments of Afghanistan. More details...

22:05
PAKISTANI PRESIDENT HAS MAJORITY BACKING: AMBASSADOR
President Pervez Musharraf enjoys public majority support, said Iftihar Murshed, Pakistani Ambassador to Russia, as he was commenting anti-presidential risings in several cities. More details...

21:31
BRITISH AIRCRAFT DO NOT TAKE PART IN THE SECOND WAVE OF AIR STRIKES AGAINST AFGHANISTAN
On Monday the RIA Novosti correspondent was informed by the UK Defense ministry that British air force aircraft did not participate in the second wave of air strikes against Afghanistan. More details...

21:29
CARRIER-BASED FIGHTER BOMBERS WERE ENGAGED IN THE SECOND WAVE OF AIR STRIKES AGAINST AFGHANISTAN
On Monday with reference to Pentagon sources the "Fox-News" TV company reported that strategic bombers of the US Air Force did not participate in the second wave of strikes on targets in Afghanistan initiated on Monday. More details...

21:08
AMERICA RESUMES AFGHAN AIRRAIDS
The USA has resumed Afghan airraids, says the CNN. The television company is reporting blasts in Kabul. Electricity was switched off all over the city as soon as new strikes started. More details...

21:00
RUSSIA, FRANCE BACK ANTI-TERROR ACTION IN AFGHANISTAN: PUTIN, CHIRAC
Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Jacques Chirac of France had a telephone conference this afternoon to express shared support for action aimed to destroy terror dens in Afghanistan. More details...

20:59
TALIBAN DID NOT CHANGE THEIR POSITION IN RESPECT OF BIN LADEN
At its extraordinary meeting the Taliban council of ministers took the decision "to fight against attacks of the USA and Great Britain and not to extradite bin Laden". More details...

20:04
RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SAYS REASON FOR CRASH OF HELICOPTER CARRYING UN MISSION IN GEORGIA WAS POLICY OF APPEASEMENT AND TOLERANCE PURSUED BY GEORGIAN AUTHORITIES TOWARDS TERRORISTS
Russia's Foreign Ministry has said that the reason for the crash of a helicopter that carried a UN mission in Georgia was the policy of appeasement and tolerance pursued by Georgian authorities towards terrorists. More details...

19:49
USA WARNED THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION THAT THEY MIGHT DELIVER STRIKES AGAINST OTHER COUNTRIES
The USA warned the United Nations Organization of the possibility of delivering strikes against other countries and organizations which stood behind foremost international terrorist Osama bin Laden and its terrorist grouping "Al-Qaeda". According to the report of the RIA Novosti correspondent, the US leadership sent an appropriate letter to the Security Council of the United Nations Organization. More details...

19:47
NORTHERN ALLIANCE PREPARES AN OFFENSIVE ALONG THE LINE TAKHAR-KABUL
The Northern Alliance gets ready for the offensive on Kabul advancing from Takhar. More details...

19:35
RUSSIAN SENATOR: AMERICA PREPARED FOR LENGTHY WAR AGAINST INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
America is prepared "for a lengthy war of between five and ten years" against international terrorism, Mikhail Margelov, deputy chairman of the international affairs committee of the Federation Council (upper house of parliament), said in a RIA Novosti interview on Monday. More details...

19:27
RUSSIA'S SOCIAL DEMOCRATS SUPPORT ANTI-TERROR ACTION IN AFGHANISTAN: GORBACHEV
US-British action in Afghanistan has every support from Russian Social Democrats, says Mikhail Gorbachev, once reformist USSR President, now president of the United Russian Social Democratic Party. More details...

19:17
SAUDI ARABIA REQUESTS THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN NOT BE CALLED "SAUDI MILLIONAIRE OR SAUDI TERRORIST"
Saudi Arabia has urged media not to call Osama bin Laden a "Saudi millionaire or a Saudi terrorist". More details...

19:10
USA TO LEAVE AFGHANISTAN IN 2-3 WEEKS
America has started the war against Afghanistan. The “powerful, destructive” missile and bomb strike eliminated over 30 targets in the country. Donald Rumsfeld – the head of the Pentagon – said the first part of the operation was “very successful.” More details...

18:55
VLADIMIR PUTIN: TERRORISTS SUFFERED FROM THEIR OWN INSOLENCE AND SELF-ASSURANCE
Russian President Vladimir Putin has addressed a Kremlin meeting with Cabinet members. Follows a transcript of his speech: More details...

18:13
ANATOLI BARANOV: AMERICA STARTED WARFARE. RUSSIA HAS ALREADY LOST
The whole world has been waiting for this news for several weeks already, but anyway it has became a sensation. The U.S.A. and Great Britain started bombing Afghanistan. After the opinion polls in America showed the expectations of the war gained 6% within the recent week, the act of retribution became inevitable More details...