King Abdullah will travel today to France for talks with President Nicolas Sarkozy on Middle East issues and bilateral ties, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

According to the source inside the command of the Mujahideen during the past four months (March-June 2007), as a result of active offensive operations and diversionary attacks, units of Chechen Armed Forces have established a firm control over the most of the mountain-woody areas in southern Chechnya.

More than 17 people have been killed and hundreds wounded in a gunbattle between security forces and Lal Mosque students here Tuesday that led to put red security alert across the country, said police and hospital sources.