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A South African soldier was killed and another seriously injured in an attack by gunmen on their unit in the conflict-hit western Sudanese province of Darfur, the South African defence department said Thursday.
The troops were about 3 kilometres from their base at Kutum in the north of the province on Wednesday when unknown gunmen...
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The UN Security Council condemned on Wednesday
'in the strongest terms' the killing of seven peacekeepers in northern
Darfur, calling the attack 'pre-meditated, deliberate and intended to
inflict casualties.' The ambush and attack on July 8 against
the joint UN-African Union mission in Darfur (UNAMID) was the most
severe since the...
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 U.N. officials and diplomats announced that the head
prosecutor of the International Criminal Court would request a detain warrant on
Monday for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, accusing him of genocide
and crimes against humanity in the orchestration of a campaign of aggression
that caused the deaths of hundreds of...
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 United Nations officials announced on Wednesday that seven
international peacekeepers were killed and 22 injured in an audacious day
ambush by armed men in the Sudanese northern province
of Darfur.
The group of about 60 soldiers and police officers was
assaulted on Tuesday afternoon along a desert road area by hundreds of...
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At least seven police officers were killed Monday in an ambush by suspected Maoist rebels in India's central state of Chhattisgarh, a news report said.
One of the militants was also killed in the shootout, which took place in the Bijapur district, about 550 kilometres south of the state capital, Raipur, officials told the PTI news...
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Pressed by military and partly disgusted by brutality exercised by Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, Pakistani tribesmen are rising up against Islamic militancy in some parts of the tribal region along Afghan border and other areas.
Three ethnic Pashtun tribes in Bajaur district - the Salarzai, Tarkhani and Utmankhel - raised a...
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An ambush which targeted a police patrol and members of the Iraqi Awakening Councils on Wednesday evening has claimed 28 lives, including 11 council members, medical sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on Thursday.
The ambush targeted the police patrol on Wednesday evening near al-Dalimat village in Diyala province, 57 kilometres...
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One soldier was killed and eight were wounded in an ambush by Muslim separatist rebels in the southern Philippines, an army spokesman said Thursday.
The soldiers were attacked Wednesday along a highway in Calanugas town in Lanao del Sur province, 810 kilometres south of Manila, Lieutenant Colonel Agane Adriatico said.
Adriatico, a...
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Muslim separatist rebels went on a rampage in the southern Philippines Monday, killing at least 29 people, burning homes and looting businesses in five towns before government troops repulsed them.
At least 23 civilians and four army soldiers, including an army lieutenant colonel, were killed in the attacks by the Moro Islamic...
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Three aid workers with the International Rescue Committee and their Afghan driver were shot to death Wednesday in a Taliban ambush in central Afghanistan, police said.
The aid workers, all women, were killed in the Qalah Rahmat area of Puli Alam, the capital of Logar province, Abdul Majeed Latifi, provincial security chief, told...
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Three aid workers with the International Rescue Committee and their Afghan driver were shot to death Wednesday in a Taliban ambush in central Afghanistan, police said.
The aid workers, all women, were killed in the Qalah Rahmat area of Puli Alam, the capital of Logar province, Abdul Majeed Latifi, provincial security chief, told...
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Three aid workers with the International Rescue Committee and their Afghan driver were shot to death Wednesday in a Taliban ambush in central Afghanistan, police said.
The aid workers, all women, were killed in the Qalah Rahmat area of Puli Alam, the capital of Logar province, Abdul Majeed Latifi, provincial security chief, told...
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 Nine United States
soldiers were killed on Sunday and 15 others were injured in an attack carried
out by more than 100 militants on a remote American base near the Pakistan border in the deadliest assault upon U.S. forces in Afghanistan since 2005,
officials announced on Monday.
The incident started off at approximately 4:30 a.m....
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 At least four civilians were killed and 25 others injured
when gunmen ambushed a crowded passenger bus in Sri Lanka’s deep south on Friday,
according to army officials.
The incident took place in the southern town of Buttala, 240km
south-east of the capital, Colombo,
considerably far from the regular struggle regions in the...
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 At least 30 rebels including their military intelligence leader were
killed in confrontations with government security forces in
north-western Sri Lanka, a military spokesman said Sunday.
The guerrilla leader - identified as Shanmugadasan Ravishankar,
alias "Colonel" Charles - was killed in an ambush in Mannar,...
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 A clash with militants linked with the infamous Al-Qaida terror network left 57 people dead so far in the Philippine southern island of Jolo. Around 25 of the dead are soldiers while the rest are militants and civilians caught in the crossfire.The militants belong to the Abu Sayyaf militant group, and the fighting with the military broke...
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 A large group of Maoist rebels ambushed more than 100 policemen in India’s central state of Chattisgarh, killing 24 officers, authorities reported Wednesday.Troops from the paramilitary security agency Central Reserve Police Force and local policemen were engaged in savage gunbattle with rebels in the Dantewada district late Monday,...
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 The armed conflict makes new victims in Sri
Lanka, 14 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels
being killed by governmental forces across the island.
Most of the fighting takes place in the northern regions,
where a group of rebels tried to ambush military troops Thursday. Ten rebels
were shot dead, as the security forces...
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Top seed Novak Djokovic crushed Germany's Simon Stadler 6-1, 6-3 on Thursday in a runaway start as top seed at the Thailand Open.
The Serbian world number three champion wasted little time in revving up his game, taking the first set in just 22 minutes over the world number 141.
Djokovic was broken in the second game of the second...
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Nicolas Mahut stunned fifth seed Jarkko Nieminen, sending the Finn flying out to his earliest career exit at the Thailand Open 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 on Thursday.
The second-round ambush in one hour, 40 minutes put a third French player into the quarter-final after second seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and number four Gael Monfils.
Nieminen was...
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Twelve suspected Islamist extremists were killed by security forces in Algeria's Berber stronghold of Tizi Ouzou, 150 kilometres east of the capital Algiers, French media reported Friday.
The clash was the result of an ambush set for the armed Islamists by security forces, who afterwards confiscated a number of weapons and...
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday
efforts to end the ethnic conflict in Sudan's Darfur region have been
disappointing as the warring parties have chosen confrontation rather
than dialogue. 'I am deeply disappointed by the lack of
progress that has been made towards resolving the Darfur conflict,' Ban
told the UN...
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 Hezbollah, the Shi’a Islamic
political and paramilitary organization, sent to Israel
on Sunday a coffinlike container with the remains of Israeli soldiers killed in
the 2006-war with Lebanon.
This move seems to have impressed Israel and made it consider as a
foreword to a possible prisoner trade.
Two Israeli soldiers, Eldad...
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 According to local media reports on Monday, eight Turkish
soldiers who were released by the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) last
week after being taken hostage in an ambush were arrested and charged on Sunday
by an order of the Van Military Court.
The eight soldiers will now face
trial in custody based on "the...
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Afghan and US-led coalition forces killed 43 suspected Taliban militants in a clash in southern Afghanistan, the military said on Tuesday.
The combined forces were patrolling in Qalat district of the southern province of Zabul on Sunday when it took rebel fire from heavy weapons, assault rifles and snipers, the military said in a...
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The remains of two kidnapped US
security contractors in Iraq
were recovered and sent back to their families. The families had not heard
anything about the two men since 2006.
John Roy Young, 45, who was working for the Crescent
Security Group Inc. in Iraq,
had been missing since November 2006. He was kidnapped in an...
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 According to a statement released by the US Army on Thursday, the Pentagon is ordering an additional 2,400 bomb resistant
armored vehicles for its soldiers in Iraq
and Afghanistan
from three manufacturers in a deal valued at $1.2 billion.
The winning vendors are: Ladson, S.C.-based Force Protection
Industries Inc., which received...
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 Officials in Baghdad are truly concerned about the safety of their country after two suicide bombings killed at least 16 people. The attack occurred near Shiite mosques in Baghdad on Thursday and the people who paid with their lives were worshippers who were celebrating Eid al-Fitr, which is the festival that marks the end of the holy...
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A 90-year-old man who was a lieutenant in Nazi Germany's forces went on trial in Munich on Monday for 14 murders during a World War II reprisal rampage in Italy.
The man has already been convicted once in absentia in La Spezia by an Italian military court of directing the June 26-27, 1944, atrocity at Falzano, a hamlet in Tuscany, but...
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France laid to rest on Thursday ten soldiers killed in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan, while the minister of defence rejected allegations that the military had been too slow to react to the attack.
President Nicholas Sarkozy paid tribute to the soldiers' courage and dedication to service at the funeral at Les Invalides in...
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French Defence Minister Herve Morin on Thursday rejected accusations that the French military's response to a Taliban attack on its troops in Afghanistan which killed ten soldiers was too slow.
Morin told RTL radio that the exact circumstances of the attack must be clarified before criticisms can be made.
The French newspaper Le...
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 Four Turkish soldiers were killed Tuesday in a clash with Kurdish
rebels in the south-east of the country as reports came in that Turkish
warplanes had bombed empty villages in northern Iraq.
The clash between Turkish forces and militants from the Kurdish
Workers' Party (PKK) took place on Mount Gabor in the Turkish province
of...
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 In a meeting held Thursday before a high-level Iraqi
delegation, the Turkish president said Turkey
is running out of patience and will not tolerate the use of Iraqi soil for the
purpose of launching terrorist activities.
The Turkish military, meanwhile, said troops had killed 30
Kurdish rebels who were preparing to attack a...
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 Spain arrested a double agent who voluntarily offered to sell information to a foreign nation, allegedly Russia. Roberto Flores Garcia had served 12 years in the CNI (National Intelligence Centre) and was arrested in Tenerife for selling state secrets between 2001 and 2004. Cadena Ser radio alleged, quoting secret service sources, that...
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Israel’s Cabinet approved on Sunday an exchange with Hezbollah. The accord will last two weeks to fulfill and will consist of Hezbollah’s return of two Israeli soldiers in exchange for five Lebanese and an indeterminate number of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.
The Israeli don’t have any proof that the soldiers...
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 A Christian archbishop, who had been previously kidnapped, was found dead, local authorities said.The corpse of Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paul Faraj Rahho was found on Thursday on the outskirts of Mosul. The Archbishop was abducted on February 29, when his car was ambushed by several gunmen. In the ambush, Rahho’s driver and his two...
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 Two separate predawn Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza Strip have
killed four Palestinian militants, the Hamas movement and the Israeli
military said Thursday morning.
In a statement to the media, the Islamist movement named two of the
fatalities as 25-year-old Shaher Abdel Karim and 22-year-old Imad Abu
T'ima, and said they...
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 According to an Afghan police official, six tribal elders
were killed by gunmen Sunday in the western province of Herat.
The provincial police chief says the elders were in a
vehicle on their way to a mosque when attackers fired on them. At least
one person in the vehicle survived the attack.
Police say two people have been...
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 According to local Afghan leaders, a NATO air strike near
the capital, Kabul, has killed at
least 11 civilians and wounded 10 others.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force says it
bombed an insurgent position Monday in the Jalrez district of Wardak province.
NATO forces say they carried out the air strike...
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 Reported as the heaviest fighting undergone in Pakistan‘s
northwestern tribal areas bordering Afghanistan in recent years, Pakistani
fighter jets bombed villages for the three days in a row as the authorities battled
pro-Taliban militants.
Soldiers, civilians and militants have all suffered
casualties in the fighting in the region...
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A suicide bomber drove his car into a UN convoy yesterday
killing a French soldier and injuring several Afghani civilians.
A NATO official confirmed the UN convoy as being the target
but said he had no immediate information about casualties, be they UN or
Afghani troops.
The attack came just hours after around 40...
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 According to an US
military statement released on Wednesday, an American soldier was shot dead
during a combat operation in southern Baghdad
on Tuesday.
The unit to which the soldier belonged was called Task Force
Lightning and was carrying out operations in southern Baghdad
to fight and prevent Iraq
al-Qaeda groups from...
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U.S. officials said they assassinated Haitham Sabah Shaker Mohammed al-Badri, the renowned al-Qaeda mastermind who planned the 2006 and 2007 attacks on the golden-domed al-Askari shrine in Samarra. The attacks destroyed its trademark golden dome and minarets.Haitham al-Badri was the leader of al-Qaeda in Salahuddin Province and was...
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 The Israeli army announced one of its soldiers was shot dead Thursday during a fire exchange with Palestinian gunmen in central Gaza, two other troopers being wounded.Hamas, the ruling Sunni Islamist organization in Gaza, said fighters from its armed wing detonated explosive devices and then opened fire on Israeli troops on the central...
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 Lebanese troops began shelling remaining Fatah al-Islam positions inside the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp early Thursday, three soldiers being killed during intense fire exchange.Several members of the al-Qaeda inspired terrorist group refused to surrender, prompting the army to renew artillery fire against them. Militants sniped down a...
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 Coalition and Afghan forces continue their operations against insurgents in Afghanistan, official reporting Saturday that at least 100 rebels have been killed in the past 48 hours throughout the country.Taliban tried to ambush a convoy of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in the western Farah province, but the troops aided by...
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 A deadly clash between Afghan and Pakistani forces on the border between the two countries killed at least 13 people Sunday. The clash triggered the call for an immediate meeting between NATO, Afghan and Pakistani officials. After the meeting unknown perpetrators attacked NATO-led International Security Assistance Force soldiers, killing...
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