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Convoy attacked in Afghan capital: reports (Reuters)

November 12th, 2010

Interactive graphic on Afghanistan as President Hamid Karzai convinces an binternational/b conference in Kabul that his government can assume responsibility for security by 2014.(AFP iactiv)Reuters - A NATO convoy was attacked near the parliament building in the Afghan capital on Friday, police and the coalition said, the first attack in Kabul in three months…

Yemen hunts bomb suspect as oil pipeline attacked (Reuters)

November 2nd, 2010

A combination picture of Saudi fugitive Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri as seen from a Yemeni police handbook of the most wanted terror suspects. REUTERS/Yemeni Police/HandoutReuters - Yemen launched an operation on Tuesday to arrest a Saudi bomb maker accused of being behind a foiled bomb plot involving U.S.-bound parcels and suspected al Qaeda fighters…

Yemen hunts bomb suspect, oil pipeline attacked (Reuters)

November 2nd, 2010

A combination picture of Saudi fugitive Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri as seen from a Yemeni police handbook of the most wanted terror suspects. REUTERS/Yemeni Police/HandoutReuters - Yemen launched an operation on Tuesday to arrest a Saudi bomb maker accused of being behind a foiled bomb plot involving U.S.-bound parcels and suspected al Qaeda fighters…

Yemen hunts bomb suspect, oil pipe attacked (Reuters)

November 2nd, 2010

A combination picture of Saudi fugitive Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri as seen from a Yemeni police handbook of the most wanted terror suspects. REUTERS/Yemeni Police/HandoutReuters - Yemen launched a major operation on Tuesday to arrest a Saudi bomb maker accused of being behind a foiled bomb plot involving U.S.-bound parcels as the poverty-hit Muslim…

UN office attacked in western Afghanistan (AP)

October 23rd, 2010

Italian soldiers on guard in Herat city in 2009. The United Nations office in the western Afghan city of Herat came under armed attack on Saturday, officials said.(AFP/File/Reza Shirmohammadi)AP - A United Nations office was attacked Saturday in western Afghanistan, officials said.


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12 NATO fuel tankers attacked in Pakistan (AP)

October 6th, 2010

A Pakistani fire fighter tries to extinguish burning oil tankers after militants attacked a terminal in Quetta, Pakistan on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan torched a dozen tankers carrying fuel to NATO troops and killed a driver Wednesday, police said, the latest strike against supply convoys heading for Afghanistan since Pakistan shut a key border crossing last week. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)AP - Gunmen torched a dozen tankers carrying fuel to NATO troops and killed a driver Wednesday, the sixth attack on convoys taking supplies to Afghanistan since Pakistan closed a…

NATO convoys attacked in Pakistan (AP)

October 1st, 2010

Pakistani flood affected residents pass by the still smoldering oil trucks in Shikarpur, southern Pakistan on Friday Oct. 1, 2010. Suspected militants set ablaze at least 27 tankers carrying fuel for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan on Friday, police said. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - Assailants launched two separate attacks on tankers carrying fuel for foreign troops in Afghanistan on Friday, showing the vulnerability of NATO supply lines a day after the Pakistani…

Dozens of NATO oil tankers attacked in Pakistan (AP)

October 1st, 2010

Map provides details of major U.S./NATO supply routes through Pakistan and locates the Khyber Pass where Pakistan has blocked the northern routeAP - Police say at least 27 tankers carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan have been attacked in southern Pakistan.


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Christian worshippers attacked in Indonesia (AP)

September 13th, 2010

AP - Indonesia’s president ordered police to hunt down and arrest assailants who stabbed a Christian worshipper in the stomach and beat a minister in the head with a wooden…

Iranian opposition leader’s home attacked (AP)

September 3rd, 2010

** CORRECTS DATE OF ATTACK ** FILE - In this June 9, 2009 file photo, Iranian opposition leader Mahdi Karroubi attends a press conference in Tehran, Iran. Pro-government militiamen attacked the home of Iranian opposition leader Mahdi Karroubi with homemade bombs and beat one of his bodyguards unconscious Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, an opposition website reported, in an apparent attempt to keep him from attending the annual state-sponsored rally known as Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)AP - Pro-government militiamen attacked the home of an Iranian opposition leader with homemade bombs and beat one of his bodyguards unconscious, an opposition website reported, in an apparent attempt…