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Al-Qaida gunmen ambush bus carrying Yemeni forces (AP)

September 25th, 2010

Yemeni policemen guard the state security court in the capital San'a, Yemen Monday, Sept. 20, 2010, as the trial of four al-Qaida suspects takes place. The four, including a Yemeni-German teenager, have been brought to trial in Yemen to face accusations they plotted attacks on tourists, binternational/b institutions and security forces. (AP Photo)AP - A Yemeni security official says two al-Qaida militants have ambushed a bus carrying security personnel in the capital, spraying the vehicle with gunfire and injuring 10 passengers.


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At least 23 soldiers killed in Tajikistan ambush (AP)

September 20th, 2010

AP - At least 23 soldiers were killed in Tajikistan after a convoy was ambushed by heavily armed Islamic militants — a devastating blow that will shake this impoverished nation…

Taliban claim capture of US sailor, killing of 2nd (AP)

July 25th, 2010

A U.S. soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) chats with a driver during a search for the two missing U.S. Navy personnel at a joint check post with Afghan soldiers in Pul-e-alam, Logar province of Afghanistan on Sunday, July 25, 2010. The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy sailor they said was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said Sunday. (AP Photo)AP - The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy sailor they said was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners,…

Mexico arrests 2 in ambush that killed 12 police (AP)

June 18th, 2010

Logo of the US Department of Justice.A Colombian national suspected of working as an intermediary for Mexican drug cartels has been ordered held for trial by a US judge after being extradited from Mexico, officials said Thursday.(AFP/DOJ)AP - Two men were arrested for allegedly participating in an ambush that killed 12 federal police officers in one of the worst drug-cartel attacks on Mexican government security forces,…

Gunmen ambush Mexican police, killing 10 officers (AP)

June 14th, 2010

Crime scene investigators and a Mexican army soldier stand over the body of a fallen federal policeman after an ambush on a patrol of federal agents near the town of Zitacuaro, Mexico Monday June 14, 2010. Mexican federal police say 10 of their officers were killed in the attack and several others were wounded.(AP Photo/Agencia MVT-Crisanta Espinosa)AP - Gunmen killed 10 federal police officers Monday in an ambush near a high school in western Mexico, staging one of the deadliest attacks on security forces since the…

More survivors of Mexico ambush emerge from bush (AP)

April 29th, 2010

People stand over the casket containing the body of human rights activist Betty Carino during a wake ceremony in Huajuapan de Leon, Mexico, late Wednesday, April 28, 2010. Earlier in the day, Carino was riding with a caravan of European and Mexican activists carrying humanitarian aid when they were attacked by gunmen outside the town of San Juan Copala, in southern Oaxaca state. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Hernandez)AP - More survivors emerged Thursday from the countryside where a convoy of Mexican and European rights activists and journalists was ambushed two days earlier in an attack that killed…

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