...they themselves said they have already destroyed?" asked Samih Jamal, a 54-year-old retired government worker. Arab League secretary-general Esmat Abdel Meguid denounced the airstrikes as an "unwarranted aggression" that worsens the plight...

...worship of idols, not their existence. Some fear that Afghanistan's actions will tarnish the image of Islam. The Arab League condemned the move last week. Afghanistan is a cultural crossroads for three great early civilizations -- Greek...

...1967 Mideast war that the Jewish state attacked Palestinian targets with warplanes. Yasser Arafat, arriving for an Arab League meeting in Cairo, told reporters that Palestinians would not back down.

...government is willing to discuss the return of U.N. weapons inspectors. Amr Mousa, the secretary-general of the Arab League who recently visited the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, told U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan that Iraq would restart...

...not already in negotiations with Israel have rejected. A text of the formal resolution was not immediately released. Arab League decisions traditionally are by consensus, meaning hard-liners like Syria and Iraq signed on along with moderates...

...Passover. But such is the state of the Middle East that the Arab League summit in Beirut, Lebanon, last week still qualifies...establishment of "normal relations" with Israel, as the Arab League proposed last week. The experience in Jordan suggests...

...brink of instability," said Clovis Maksoud, former Arab League ambassador to the United States and the United Nations...the proposal, which was endorsed by the 22-nation Arab League, aides to both sides said. Bush said he was grateful...

...a regime change in Iraq, voted unanimously to support U.S. efforts to disarm Iraq. Even more startling was the Arab League's backing of the resolution's specific threat of "serious consequences" if Iraq did not comply. Through the dogged...

...Foreign Minister Farouk Kaddoumi had said as he headed into the Arab summit, which drew 15 heads of state from among the Arab League's 22 members. Egypt in 1979 became the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel. It has since then...

...in exchange for comprehensive peace with the Arab world -- was gaining new momentum. On Tuesday, the head of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, said his organization backed the idea, which is to be presented at next week's Arab summit in Beirut...