Al-Qaida claims responsibility for car bombing attack on Yemen's presidential palace

Yemeni security guards inspect the the road outside presidentialpalace in Mukalla where a suicide bomber blew up a vehiclekilling 25 people. Photograph: -/AFP/Getty Images SANAA, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- The Yemen-based al-Qaida wing claimed responsibility for a car bombing attack on the presidential palace in southeastern province of Hadramout on Saturday that left at least...

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US Drone Crashes In Pakistan Tribal Region

A U.S. drone has crashed in Pakistan's North Waziristan region near the border with Afghanistan. The unmanned aircraft crashed in the mountainous area of Machikhel late Saturday. Taliban members have claimed they shot down the drone, but neither the U.S. nor the Pakistani government has confirmed that. "A US drone crashed, apparently due to some technical fault," a military...

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Moroccan jihadist killed in Somalia airstrike

By Bill Roggio - February 24, 2012. - LWJ Moroccan jihadist Abu Ibrahim. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group. A Moroccan jihadist was among several Shabaab fighters, including other foreigners, who were killed in an airstrike in southern Somalia today. In a web posting today, a jihadist forum member who also serves as an operative...

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6 Afghan police die while defusing bomb

photo by  Tech. Sgt. Kevin Wallace - via Wikipedia KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense says six Afghan soldiers have been killed and 16 others wounded while trying to defuse a roadside bomb. The ministry says the soldiers died Saturday in Mukar district of Baghdis province in western Afghanistan.  Deputy provincial governor Abdul...

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2 U.S. Advisers shot dead inside the Afghan interior ministry

KABUL, Afghanistan — A gunman killed two American advisers inside a heavily guarded government compound in Kabul on Saturday, officials said, as protests against the burning of copies of the Muslim holy book roiled the country for a fifth day. U.S. officials said the assailant remained at large as neither an apology from President Obama nor gunfire from Afghan police could...

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Feb.25., 2012. - ISAF Joint Command Morning Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan (Feb. 25) – In Qarghah’i district, Laghman province, multiple insurgents were killed while placing improvised explosive devices Thursday. Afghan and coalition security forces positively identified the insurgents and called in close air support assets to engage their position. After the strike, security forces confiscated heavy machine guns, firearms,...

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R.I.P. - Sgt. Joshua A. Born, R.I.P. - Cpl. Timothy J. Conrad Jr.

DOD Identifies Army Casualties             The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.           They died Feb. 23, in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when their unit came under small arms fire.  They were...

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