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U.S. missile strike kills 20 militants in Pakistan (Reuters)

November 16th, 2010

Reuters - Unmanned U.S. drone aircraft Tuesday fired four missiles into North Waziristan, a major sanctuary for al Qaeda and Taliban militants in Pakistan, killing at least 20 insurgents, local…

Militants kidnap 7 from Exxon platform off Nigeria (Reuters)

November 15th, 2010

Reuters - Nigeria’s main militant group said on Tuesday it was behind an attack on an Exxon Mobil oil platform and it had kidnapped seven Nigerian workers, the second such…

Iraq’s Christians terrorized by wave of bombings (AP)

November 10th, 2010

Iraqi Christian Siba Nadhir, who survived last week's church carnage in Baghdad, lies on her hospital bed surrounded by a nurse and mourning family members in black, in the Iraqi capital on November 7, one day before being transferred along with 40 people wounded in the deadly October 31 Al-Qaeda hostage assault on the Sayedat al-Nejat Catholic catherdral to France for further hospital treatment.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)AP - Suspected Sunni militants took aim again at Baghdad’s dwindling Christian community, setting off a dozen roadside bombs Wednesday and sending terrified families into hiding behind a church where…

Islamic militants raid Chechen parliament, 6 dead (AP)

October 19th, 2010

Special Force (OMON) officers are seen in front of Chechen parliament complex after a bomb blast in Grozny, Chechnya, southern Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. Insurgents stormed the parliament complex in Russia's volatile Chechnya region on Tuesday, killing at least 2 police officers and one parliamentary official, authorities said. At least three insurgents were also killed, ending the attack, they said. One insurgent set off a bomb at the gates of the parliament complex in the provincial capital, killing himself and wounding others, Chechen police spokesman Ramzam Bekkhoyev told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)AP - Islamic insurgents attacked Chechnya’s parliament Tuesday in a brazen suicide raid that left six people dead and 17 wounded, defying Kremlin claims of stability in the volatile southern…

Pakistan arrests 7 militants, foil plot to kill PM (AP)

October 14th, 2010

Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani addresses a news conference after meeting NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels June 4, 2010. REUTERS/Francois LenoirAP - Pakistani police said Thursday they have foiled a plot to kill the country’s prime minister, foreign minister and other senior police, army and government officials by arresting a…

German militants training in Pakistani border area (AP)

October 7th, 2010

AP - The video at first seems like many others filmed in Pakistan’s tribal areas: The bearded militant sits cross-legged on the floor, an AK-47 propped against the wall behind…

Germany not ID’ing 5 militants killed in Pakistan (AP)

October 5th, 2010

A police officer with a dog, patrols a central London train station, Monday Oct. 4, 2010. Britain's Foreign Office has upgraded its travel advice for France and Germany, warning Britons going to those countries that the threat of terrorism there is high. Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May said that the threat of terrorism in the U.K. remains unchanged at 'severe,' meaning an attack is highly likely. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - BERLIN — German officials were tightlipped Tuesday about details surrounding a U.S. missile strike in Pakistan’s rugged mountain border area that Pakistani officials say killed five German militants.


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US strike kills 5 German militants in Pakistan (AP)

October 4th, 2010

A soldier patrols at Gare du Nord train station in Paris, Monday, Oct.4, 2010. Japan issued a travel alert for Europe on Monday, joining the United States and Britain in warning of a possible terrorist attack by al-Qaida or other groups, but tourists appeared to be taking the mounting warnings in stride. At right is a board signaling security measures. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)AP - An American missile strike killed five German militants Monday in the rugged Pakistan border area where a cell of Germans and Britons at the heart of the U.S.…

Pakistan say NATO airstrikes breach its air space (AP)

September 27th, 2010

A British soldier mans his position at the rear of a helicopter as it is flies over Helmand province in Afghanistan in August, 2010. Security forces Monday stepped up the hunt for British woman and three Afghans reportedly working for a US development group who were kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan, police said.(AFP/Pool/File/Andrew Winning)AP - Pakistan vehemently protested NATO helicopter strikes that killed more than 70 militants, saying Monday that U.N. rules do not allow the choppers to cross into its air space…

NATO: Bomb blasts kill 3 troops, 30 militants die (AP)

September 25th, 2010

A group of Pakistani students hold a rally to condemn the verdict against alleged al-Qaida suspect Aafia Siddique, in Bannu, Pakistan, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. Siddique, a U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist convicted of trying to kill U.S. agents and military officers in Afghanistan, was sentenced Thursday to 86 years in prison. (AP Photo/Ijaz Muhammmad)AP - Three NATO service members were killed in two bomb blasts and more than 30 insurgents died in a clash with coalition troops in eastern Afghanistan, the military alliance…