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Nigeria: Sect members attack police station (AP)

October 24th, 2010

A man walks past rubble of the Islamic sect Boko Haram burnt last year by the police and military at the headquarters of the sect still being guarded by the police in Maiduguri, Borno State in July 2010. Suspected Islamist sect members on Sunday attacked a police station in northern Nigeria, leading to a gun battle with officers, authorities said, in the latest such incident in recent months.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AP - Suspected members of a Muslim sect accused of orchestrating targeted killings across northern Nigeria have attacked another police station.


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18 Guard members killed in Iran base blast Tuesday (AP)

October 13th, 2010

AP - An explosion set off by a fire that had spread to an ammunition depot at a military base in western Iran killed 18 members of the country’s powerful…

2 NATO service members killed in Afghanistan (AP)

October 3rd, 2010

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, and first Vice President Muhammad Qasim Fahim, left, participate in a function promoting members of the Afghan security forces at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010. Karzai delivered a upbeat and nationalistic speech calling on Afghanistan's police and army to prepare themselves to take charge of protecting and defending the nation after the eventual exit of binternational/b forces. (AP Photo/Ahead Massoud)AP - Two more NATO service members have been killed in weekend attacks in Afghanistan, the military coalition said Sunday as Australia’s new prime minister vowed to Afghanistan’s president that…

5 NATO service members killed in Afghanistan (AP)

September 30th, 2010

British soldiers with the Royal Gurkha Rifles regiment patrol Helmand Province in June 2010. The commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan has said the Taliban are approaching the Afghan government and foreign forces about laying down arms after almost nine years of insurgency.(AFP/File/Bay Ismoyo)AP - Five NATO service members were killed Thursday in southern Afghanistan, the scene of heavy fighting as troops push into areas long controlled by the Taliban, the coalition said.


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NATO says 9 service members killed in copter crash (AP)

September 21st, 2010

British soldiers walk towards a military helicopter during a patrol of Afghanistan's Helmand province in March 2010. British forces transferred control of security for Sangin district in southern Afghanistan to US troops, the defence ministry said on Monday.(AFP/Pool/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - Nine service members with the international coalition in Afghanistan died Tuesday after their helicopter crashed in the volatile south where troops are ramping up pressure on Taliban insurgents.


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NATO says 9 service members killed in crash (AP)

September 21st, 2010

British soldiers walk towards a military helicopter during a patrol of Afghanistan's Helmand province in March 2010. British forces transferred control of security for Sangin district in southern Afghanistan to US troops, the defence ministry said on Monday.(AFP/Pool/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - Nine service members with the international coalition in Afghanistan died Tuesday after their helicopter crashed in the volatile south where troops are ramping up pressure on Taliban insurgents.


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Japan frees 14 crew members of Chinese ship (AP)

September 13th, 2010

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a detained Chinese fishing trawler is flanked by two Japanese Coast Guard vessels during an investigation by Japanese authorities near Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture of Japan, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010. China's top foreign policy official increased pressure on Japan on Sunday by summoning its ambassador to again demand the immediate release of the Chinese fishermen and their boat detained near disputed islands. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Ji Chunpeng) ** NO SALES **AP - Japan freed 14 crew members of a Chinese ship Monday nearly a week after their vessel collided with two Japanese patrol boats near disputed southern islets, but kept…

NKorea’s party members gathering for meeting (AP)

September 6th, 2010

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Pyongyang citizens head home after attending a celebration ceremony rehearsal for the upcoming Conference of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. North Korea is preparing its largest political meeting in 30 years, and leader Kim Jong Il is expected to appoint a son to a key Workers Party position in what would be the strongest sign yet of a succession movement in the secretive communist country. The exact date of the political gathering, set for 'early September,' has not been announced, but analysts have said it could open as soon as Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Gao Haorong) ** NO SALES **AP - North Korea’s ruling communist party members gathered in Pyongyang ahead of their largest political conference in 30 years, state media reported Monday, amid predictions that leader Kim Jong…

NATO: 3 US service members killed in Afghanistan (AP)

August 8th, 2010

In this photo taken Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010, Afghan police officers stand at a check point next to a makeshift camp where displaced Pashto families from Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, live on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - Three US service members were killed in recent attacks in southern Afghanistan, the military coalition said Sunday.


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2 US Navy service members missing in Afghanistan (AP)

July 24th, 2010

United States Marines from Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Marines watch the explosion after calling in an airstrike during a gunbattle as part of an operation to clear the area of insurgents near Musa Qaleh, in northern Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, Friday, July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - Two U.S. Navy service members disappeared in a dangerous area of eastern Afghanistan, prompting a massive air and ground search and appeals on local radio stations for their…

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