Clashes

Deadly clashes as Morocco storms Western Sahara camp (Reuters)

November 8th, 2010

Reuters - Clashes between security forces and protesters in Western Sahara killed several people on Monday after Moroccan authorities stormed the site of the disputed territory’s biggest anti-government protest in…

Clashes, protests in French tensions over pensions (AP)

October 21st, 2010

Firefighters put out a fire of a burning truck after clashes between the police and youth, in Lyon, central France, Wednesday Oct. 20, 2010. French authorities forced strike-shuttered fuel depots to reopen to ensure gasoline supplies, and the interior minister threatened Wednesday to send in paramilitary police to stop rioting on the fringes of protests against raising the retirement age to 62. Months of largely peaceful demonstrations against the pension reform have taken a violent turn in recent days. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)AP - Protesters blockaded Marseille’s airport, Lady Gaga canceled concerts in Paris and rioting youths attacked police in Lyon on Thursday ahead of a tense Senate vote on raising the…

Clashes resume in Lyon amid French labor tensions (AP)

October 21st, 2010

Firefighters put out a fire of a burning truck after clashes between the police and youth, in Lyon, central France, Wednesday Oct. 20, 2010. French authorities forced strike-shuttered fuel depots to reopen to ensure gasoline supplies, and the interior minister threatened Wednesday to send in paramilitary police to stop rioting on the fringes of protests against raising the retirement age to 62. Months of largely peaceful demonstrations against the pension reform have taken a violent turn in recent days. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)AP - Youths have overturned a car and hurled bottles at police in the French city of Lyon amid nationwide tensions over raising the retirement age.


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India forces battle Kashmiris in streets; 8 killed (AP)

September 13th, 2010

An Indian paramilitary soldier guards a deserted national highway during a curfew on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010. Police in Indian-administered Kashmir formally accused a key separatist leader of treason Sunday for allegedly inciting violence after participants in a massive anti-India rally torched government offices. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)AP - Police say at least eight protesters have been killed in clashes with troops in Kashmir that have been partly fueled by a report of a Quran being desecrated…

Bahrain arrests 4 Shiite activists amid clashes (AP)

August 15th, 2010

AP - A Bahraini security official says four leading Shiite activists have been arrested as the kingdom’s Sunni leaders try to end violent confrontations between Shiite protesters and anti-riot police.

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Turkish jets raid northern Iraq, clashes kill 23 (AP)

June 19th, 2010

Kurdish rebels killed 10 Turkish soldiers in an attack on an army post and a mine explosion near the border with Iraq, prompting retaliatory air raids on rebel outposts.(AFP/Graphic/File/AFP/Graphic/File)AP - Turkish warplanes launched air raids at suspected Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq Saturday after a rebel attack on a military outpost in Turkey touched off clashes in…

Turkish jets raid northern Iraq, clashes kill 22 (AP)

June 19th, 2010

Iraqi police commandos take position in Basra, 2008. One demonstrator was killed and two wounded when Iraqi police opened fire to disperse a protest against power rationing in the southern city of Basra(AFP/File/Essam al-Sudani)AP - Turkish warplanes launched air raids at suspected Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq Saturday after a rebel attack on a military outpost in Turkey touched off clashes in…

Turkish jets raid northern Iraq, clashes kill 20 (AP)

June 19th, 2010

An attack by Kurdish rebels on a Turkish army post near the border with Iraq left eight soldiers dead and prompted retaliatory air raids on rebel outposts.(AFP/Graphic/File/AFP/Graphic/File)AP - Turkish warplanes launched air raids at suspected Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq Saturday after a rebel attack on a military outpost in Turkey touched off clashes in…

Interim leader: Up to 2,000 dead in Kyrgyz clashes (AP)

June 18th, 2010

Kyrgyzstan's interim government leader Rosa Otunbayeva wearing a flak jacket, reacts as she listens to a question during her meeting with local officials after landing by military helicopter on the central square in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. She is vowing to work for the return of refugees who fled deadly ethnic violence there by the hundreds of thousands. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - Kyrgyzstan’s interim president said Friday that 2,000 people may have died in the ethnic clashes that have rocked the country’s south — many times her government’s official estimate…

29 inmates killed in Mexico prison clashes (AP)

June 14th, 2010

AP - At least 29 inmates were killed Monday as rival gangs clashed inside a prison in a cartel-plagued Mexican state, authorities said. Three policemen guarding the prison were wounded.

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