Intense gun battles have raged between NATO-backed Afghan troops and heavily-armed militants targeting UN and government buildings in the city of Lashkar Gah. Afghan forces had to call in NATO air support after coming under […]
At least 11 people killed in violent fighting between Somalia’s main opposition, al-Shabab fighters, and African Union (AU) peacekeepers in Mogadishu. Nine civilians were killed. The violence erupted early Friday near the K4 area in […]
Israel has assassinated Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior Hamas military commander in Dubai, according to an official in the Palestinian resistance group. According to one of Mabhouh’s brothers, he was killed by electric shock as an […]
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) — alleged September 11, 2001 terror attack mastermind. After much opposition to conducting the 9/11 KSM terror trial in lower Manhattan, the White House ordered the Justice Department Thursday night to […]
Iran executed by hanging Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani and Arash Rahmanipour, accused of involvement in an armed anti-government group, as the public prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi announced that death sentences have been issued against opposition […]
Leaders meeting at an international conference on Afghanistan have agreed on a timetable for foreign forces to exit the country. The delegates in London Thursday also backed the Afghan president’s plan to lure Taliban to […]
Report released by the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Important points … Al-Qaeda’s efforts to develop biological and nuclear weapons were not “empty rhetoric” and that the group’s […]
North and South Korea exchanged land-based artillery fire near their disputed sea border on Wednesday. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff reported North Korea fired artillery shots toward South Korea, but shells landed on its […]
A discovery of a miniature liquor bottle on Southwest Airlines Flight 2543 about 1:15 p.m. Monday caused a pilot to decide to take his Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 back to the gate at Chicago Midway […]
Suicide bombers struck near three hotels (Sheraton Hotel, Babylon Hotel, Hamra Hotel) popular with Western journalists and businessmen Monday — immediately as Iraq announced the execution of Saddam Hussein’s cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid (“Chemical Ali”). […]
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