Afghanistan
Female Afghan warlord turns herself in
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Somalia
Nasteh Dahir Farah, a reporter for the BBC and The Associated Press, has been killed by unknown gunmen in the town of Kismayo, 500 km south of Mogadishu. He was shot several times in the chest as he walked home from an Internet cafe late Saturday night. Fresh fighting between Ethiopian-backed government forces and Islamic […]
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RAF first as Taliban leader is killed by plane … piloted remotely in Las Vegas
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US unit helps Afghan Muslims spruce up mosques
Afghanistan
Three British soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing in Helmand province. Afghan officials say the Taliban are coercing and forcing children to become suicide bombers. Taliban kidnappers abducted a Pakistani employee of an Afghan company in Kandahar province. A Canadian soldier died after he fell into an open well west of Kandahar City. Operation […]
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s defense ministry said its forces had killed at least 28 Tamil Tiger rebels in the latest clashes across the north of the island. Fighting in the Mannar, Vavuniya, Weli Oya, and Jaffna areas saw one soldier killed while 25 rebels and 34 soldiers were injured. Sri Lankan military jets bombed a meeting place […]
Algeria
A bomb attack blamed on Islamist terrorists killed six Algerian soldiers and wounded four in Cap Djinet, east of Algiers. The soldiers were returning to barracks on Thursday after a fishing expedition in the seaside town, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) from Algiers, when their vehicle struck a bomb buried in the road. The attack […]
Russia
An explosion ripped apart a car carrying a district police chief in Chechnya on Friday and gunmen then shot at the burning vehicle, killing Police chief Shamil Kutsayev. Five other policemen were injured in the ambush. A court in the Russian capital ordered the closure of an Internet site Friday that carried news from the […]
Sri Lanka
Bomb attacks on two buses in Sri Lanka have left 22 people dead and about 100 injured. Twenty people died and more than 80 were hurt in the blast in the capital while a later attack in the town of Kandy killed two and injured 20. Sri Lankan police detained more than 50 people for […]
Tracking the Coalition’s Afghan spring offensive
Coalition forces have gone on the offensive against the Taliban in Kapisa, Badghis, Farah, Uruzgan, Kandahar, and Helmand provinces.
Coalition and Taliban vie for control of southwestern Afghanistan in Farah province
The Taliban is fighting to control the southeastern province of Farah, while ISAF is bolstering reconstruction and security in the region. Iranian weapons continue to flow through Farah province.
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Military: 13 killed in Sri Lanka clashes
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Hekmatyar’s son-in-law freed after four years in jail
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Al Qaeda suspects go on trial in Azerbaijan
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Deal with Taliban should not come at Afghan’s cost: Karzai
Afghanistan
Operation Rawa Tander, Pashto for Rolling Thunder, a joint Canada and Afghan military mission, disrupted insurgent activity in one of Kandahar province’s most dangerous areas, Pashmul. Several dozen insurgents were killed or injured during the week-long operation. A suicide car bomber wounded four ISAF troops and four Afghans near Jalalabad. Canada will move helicopters and […]
Yemen
A gunman opened fire in a mosque in a predominantly Shiite northern town Friday, killing at least eight worshipers and wounding dozens. The attack took place in the town of Kohal in Amran Province, north of the Yemeni capital, Sana. An escalating war between northern rebels and the Yemeni military has recently spread to the […]
Sri Lanka
New fighting between government forces and Tamil Tiger separatists killed 26 rebels and four soldiers in the Vavuniya, Mannar, Welioya and Jaffna areas. Troops killed 19 rebels and lost three soldiers during heavy fighting in Mannar district while other battles in Welioya and Jaffna killed four rebels. Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels condemned government moves […]
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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar™s Return to the Afghan Insurgency
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Firefights but no Canadian casualties in military sweep west of Kandahar
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Poland to take over security in Afghan province
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Afghanistan: Senior insurgent leader killed
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Suicide bomber kills 16 people in northwestern Iraq
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UN praises progress in Iraq as Baghdad seeks debt relief
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Gordon Brown: Britain will scrap cluster bombs
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Infighting leaves eight Taliban dead in Ghazni
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Soldier denied payout in ‘wrong type of bomb’ case
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber targeting a US convoy in Kabul killed three civilians and damaged two US vehicles but caused no serious injuries. A Coalition airstrike in Farah province left at least 30 Taliban dead. A vital causeway that spans the Tarnack River and links Kandahar’s Dand district with Kandahar City has opened under tight security. […]
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s military sank four Tamil Tiger rebel boats off the island’s northern coast after a battle that killed eight rebels and one soldier. The rebel boats were sunk when troops fired artillery at them as they attempted to attack army and naval positions in Sirutheevu off northern Jaffna. The Tamil Tiger rebel group dismissed […]
Yemen
Yemeni authorities have detained 11 al Qaeda operatives in the capital who were suspected of planning terrorist acts. Those arrested include African nationals and Saudis. The group members were detained before they could continue their travels to Iraq.