At least 17 people were killed in an explosion at an ammunition storage facility at a military base in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi in northeastern Libya on Friday, hospital officials said The death toll […]
Muammar Gadaffi launched brutal attack on the rebel-held city of Zawiyah, about 30 miles west of Tripoli. Rebels from the east and pro-Gaddafi forces from the west are preparing for a confrontation in the coming […]
Mutinous army units in pickup trucks armed with machine guns and rocket launchers deployed around the strategic oil installation at Brega on Thursday, a day after the opposition foiled an attempt by loyalists of leader […]
Security forces loyal to President Laurent Gbagbo, who is clinging to power in Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire), fatally shot six women in the Abodo district of Abidjan, protesting his refusal to leave office Thursday, as […]
Recent amateur video accessed via YouTube on Thursday showed groups of armed men fighting in the desert but it was unclear exactly when the video was filmed.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced he ordered to the Mediterranean Sea the USS Ponce and the USS Kearsarge, an amphibious-assault ship that typically carries infantrymen and troop-transport helicopters. The ships currently have 800 marines, in […]
Taliban extremists claimed responsibility for the murder of Pakistan’s Minority Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti yesterday morning, the only Christian member of Pakistan’s cabinet. The assassination is the second political assassination linked to controversial blasphemy laws […]
A gunman fired shots at U.S. Air Force personnel on a bus outside Frankfurt airport on Wednesday, killing two airmen and wounding two before being taken into custody, authorities said. A man opened fire on […]
Armed forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi have retaken the eastern city of Brega with air strikes less than two miles from a Libyan oil terminal. Rebels fighting in the east fear this is […]
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist church members who mount attention-getting, anti-gay protests outside military funerals. The Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist church members who […]
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