One killed, 15 injured in Nairobi grenade attack (+video)

NAIROBI, Kenya – One person was killed and fifteen others wounded after a grenade was hurled inside a church in Nairobi’s Ngara area on Sunday morning. Police said the incident occurred at about 9 am shortly after the Sunday service kicked off at the God’s House of Miracles International Church. by BERNARD MOMANYI from CAPITALFM.CO.KE Witnesses interviewed told...

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German jihadist killed by US in March drone strike

By Bill Roggio - April 29, 2012 - LWJ A German jihadist is thought to have been killed in an airstrike carried out by US drones on March 9 in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan. The German, a known "Islamist" from Aachen, has been identified at Samir H., according to a report in Der Spiegel. Samir was one...

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Boko Haram kills four in Nigeria church attack: police

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Mon Apr 30, 2012(Reuters) - Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram killed four people in an attack on a Sunday church service in the northeast town of Maiduguri, police said on Monday, adding to the death toll from a separate shooting in the country's second largest city Kano. Gunmen killed at least 15 people and wounded many more at a Christian service...

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US drone strike kills 4 'militants' in North Waziristan

By Bill Roggio - April 29, 2012 - LWJ Today the US launched its first drone strike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency in nearly a month. The strike in North Waziristan targeted an abandoned school that is known to be used by foreign fighters. The unmanned Predators or the more heavily armed Reapers fired a pair of missiles...

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14 armed insurgents killed, 2 wounded and 16 others arrested by ANP

14 armed insurgents killed, two wounded and 16 others arrested by Afghan National Police Counterterrorism: During the past 24 hours, Afghan National Police, Afghan National Army, NDS and Coalition Forces launched five joint clearance operations in Kabul, Nangarhar, Zabul, Logar and Ghazni provinces. As a result of these operations, 14 armed insurgents were...

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Apr.30., 2012. - ISAF Joint Command Morning Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan (Apr. 30) — An Afghan led and coalition supported security force detained a Taliban facilitator during an operation in Daman district, Kandahar province, today. The facilitator provided vehicles for suicide attacks against Afghan and coalition security forces throughout the province. The security force detained two additional insurgents and seized multiple...

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17 shun militancy, turn a new leaf in Nuristan

(file photo) JALALABAD (PAN): Seventeen rebels laid down their arms and joined the government-initiated peace process in eastern Nuristan province, officials said on Monday.Lead by Qari Abdul Khalil, the insurgents surrendered five weapons, a rocket launcher, some explosives and remote-controlled bombs, Governor Tamim Nuristani told Pajhwok Afghan News.Khalil, an influential...

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Paktika: IED Blast Kills 2 Children

Districts of Paktika Province (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Two children were killed by an explosion of an improvised explosive device (IED) buried in the ground in southern Paktika province, the provincial governor's office said Monday. Two other children were wounded, one seriously, by the blast which happened around at 10:00 am Sunday while the children were playing...

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Explosion wounds 20 in eastern Nigeria

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, April 30 (Reuters) - A bomb blast wounded at least 20 people in the eastern Nigerian city of Jalingo on Monday, one day after two deadly attacks in other parts of the country, an emergency agency and a witness said. "The blast was between the state ministry of finance and police headquarters," Ibrahim Farinloye, local head of the National Emergency Management...

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3 killed in U.S. drone strike in NW Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, April 29 (Xinhua) -- At least three people were killed and two others were injured when U.S. drones fired two missiles at a government-run girls high school in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of North Waziristan on Sunday afternoon, reported local Urdu TV channel ARY. other sources said 2 or 6 killed, several injured no confirmed reports yet updates coming...

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Kidnapped British aid worker found dead in Pakistan

Khalil Dale (telegraph.co.uk) The Red Cross says a British national working for the organization has been killed by his captors in southwestern Pakistan. The body of a British employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross, who was kidnapped in January, was found by police in Quetta city of southwest Pakistan on Sunday. Khalil Dale, a 60-year-old Muslim convert,...

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7 key rebel commanders killed in Helmand

LASHKARGAH (PAN): Seven key Taliban commanders were killed during a police operation in the Washer district of southern Helmand province, an official said on Sunday. The operation was conducted by the quick reaction police unit in Folad and Sarfolad areas of the district last week, the governor's spokesman, Daud Ahmadi, told Pajhwok Afghan News. He said the dead...

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R.I.P. - Staff Sgt. Andrew T. Brittonmihalo

DOD Identifies Army Casualty                  The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.                 Staff Sgt. Andrew T. Brittonmihalo, 25,...

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5 insurgents killed, 1 wounded and 21 others arrested by ANP

Five armed insurgents killed, one wounded and 21 others arrested by Afghan National Police Counterterrorism: During the past 24 hours, Afghan National Police, Afghan National Army, NDS and Coalition Forces launched 10 joint clearance operations in Nangarhar, Kunar, Kapisa, Kandahar, Helmand, Khost, Ghazni, Logar, Zabul and Farah provinces. As a result of...

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Apr.29., 2012. - ISAF Joint Command Morning Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan (Apr. 29) — An Afghan-led security force conducted an operation to detain a Taliban leader in Baraki Barak district, Logar province, today.The leader organized roadside bombings and other attacks against Afghan and coalition forces in the province.As the Afghan portion of the force moved into the area and conducted a call out, the insurgent leader and...

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Gunmen kill 15 in attack in Nigeria's Kano

KANO, Nigeria, April 29 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed 15 people and wounded many more when they attacked a lecture theatre used by Christian worshippers in Nigeria's second largest city of Kano on Sunday, a university worker told Reuters. The man, who asked not to be named, said he saw 15 bodies being carried from the site and many more being treated for injuries. There was...

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R.I.P. - Guardsman Michael Roland

Guardsman Michael Roland killed in Afghanistan 28 Apr 12 - Ministry of Defence News It is with sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death of Guardsman Michael Roland, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards. He died on Friday 27th April 2012 as a result of a gunshot wound sustained in Afghanistan. Guardsman Michael Roland[Picture:...

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10 policemen dead in roadside bombing in eastern Afghanistan

Districts of Wardak. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) MAIDAN SHAR, Afghanistan, April 28 (Xinhua) -- Ten Afghan policemen were killed late Friday in a roadside bombing in the country's eastern province of Wardak, said a provincial official on Saturday. "A unit of Afghan Local Police (ALP) force was traveling along a road in the Ambukhar area of Chak-i-Wardak district Friday evening...

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R.I.P. - Staff Sgt. Brandon F. Eggleston, Sgt. Dick A. Lee Jr.

DOD Identifies Army Casualties                  The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.                 They died April 26, in Ghazni province,...

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Six people killed in attacks in Iraq

BAGHDAD, April 28 (Xinhua) -- Six people were killed and three others wounded in separate attacks in the Iraqi provinces of Diyala and Salahudin on Saturday, the police said.Two Kurdish residents were killed when two sticky bombs attached to their cars separately detonated in the city of Saadiyah, some 60 km northeast of Diyala's capital city of Baquba, the source from the...

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R.I.P. - Spc. Moises J. Gonzalez

DOD Identifies Army Casualty             The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.             Spc. Moises J. Gonzalez, 29, Huntington, Calif., died April 25, in Balkh province, Afghanistan,...

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Yemeni intelligence officer assassinated in restive south

Location of the governorate of Lahij, in Yemen(Photo credit: Wikipedia) ADEN, Yemen, April 28 (Xinhua) -- A high-ranking officer of the Yemeni intelligence agency was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the southern province of Lahij on Saturday morning, a security official told Xinhua.The gunmen opened fire on the intelligence officer while he was heading to work at the agency...

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R.I.P. - Lt. Christopher E. Mosko

DOD Identifies Navy Casualty                 The Department of Defense announced today the death of a sailor who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.                 Lt. Christopher E. Mosko, 28, of Pittsford,...

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Al-Qaida releases 73 Yemeni soldiers after tribal mediation: statement

SANAA, April 28 (Xinhua) -- The Yemen-based al-Qaida wing on Saturday released 73 Yemeni soldiers they captured two months ago during fighting with the government troops in the southern province of Abyan, as a result of a tribal mediation, the terrorist group said in a statement. "Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula's (AQAP) Ansar al-Sharia ( Parisian of Islamic Law) in Abyan's...

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Roadside blast kills 10 policemen in Maid Wardak

Districts of Wardak. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN): Nearly 10 policemen were killed in a roadside bombing in central Maidan Wardak province, officials said on Saturday. The blast happened in the Zambukhak area on the outskirts of Chak district, when a group of security personnel were heading to take up their duties at a project site in the area, the provincial...

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