At least 12 killed in twin car bomb attacks in northern Iraq

MOSUL, Iraq, March 7 (Xinhua) -- At least 12 people were killed and 15 others wounded when two car bombs exploded coordinately in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh on Wednesday, a provincial police source said. The attack occurred after midday when two booby-trapped cars went off almost simultaneously near popular restaurants and marketplace in the town of Tel-Afar, some...

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Yemen al-Qaida wing threatens to execute 73 army hostages

Image via Wikipedia ADEN, Yemen, March 7 (Xinhua) -- The Yemen-based al-Qaida wing threatened on Wednesday to execute a total of 73 army hostages if the government did not immediately release its jailed members, a leading member of the al-Qaida militants told Xinhua."If the Yemeni government authorizes or its western allies attempt to launch a military operation against...

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Suicide bomber kills five police in Russia’s Dagestan

MOSCOW: A female suicide bomber has killed at least five policemen by blowing herself up at a traffic police post in the restive Dagestan region of southern Russia. The woman detonated her bomb late on Tuesday outside Karabudakhkent, a village 40 km south of the provincial capital Makhachkala, Russia’s RIA news agency quoted local police as saying. Dagestan faces almost...

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Iraqi minister escapes car bomb attack in Baghdad

BAGHDAD, March 7 (Xinhua) -- An Iraqi minister on Wednesday escaped unhurt a car bomb explosion near his convoy in western Baghdad, where a civilian was killed and four others were wounded, an interior ministry source told Xinhua. The attack occurred at about 11:30 a.m. local time (0830 GMT) when a car bomb went off near the convoy of Mohammed al-Darraji, the minister of...

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Mortar shelling kills 18 militants in upper Orakzai

PESHAWAR: At least 17 militants and a militant commander were killed in the upper Orakzai Agency as the security forces pounded militant hideouts with mortar shells on Wednesday in an area that has seen a lot of violence in recent times. The officials claimed that six among the militants who died in the shelling were foreigners – two arabs and four Tajiks. According...

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Militants among 30 detained

ZARANJ/FARAH CITY (PAN): Three Taliban fighters and 27 suspects have been detained during a series of security operations in southwestern Nimroz and western Farah provinces, officials said on Wednesday. The militants included a commander named Mullah Marjan, accused of supplying logistics to the insurgents in Nimroz. He was held along with two of his accomplices during...

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American aid worker abducted in Sudan's Darfur

KHARTOUM, March 7 (Xinhua) -- An unidentified armed group abducted an American citizen working for UN World Food Program ( WFP) and his Sudanese driver who were on their way to the office in Nyala in Sudan's South Darfur state, Khartoum Al-Hadath daily reported on Wednesday. "The kidnapping took place at 8:00 a.m. local time (0500 GMT)," the paper quoted unnamed sources...

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Six British troops killed in Afghanistan

UPDATE:  MOD confirms names of the six soldiers believed killed in Helmand http://bit.ly/yBWFU5 LONDON: Six British soldiers are missing and are believed to have been killed in Afghanistan after an explosion hit an armoured vehicle, Britain’s Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday. “I have the tragic duty to report that six soldiers are missing, believed killed,...

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Four people killed in Afghanistan Kandahar bomb blast

Four people have been killed and 10 injured in a bomb blast at a police post close to the Afghan border with Pakistan, Afghan officials say. The bomb was planted in a motorbike, officials say, and and a woman and a child are among the dead. No-one has claimed responsibility for the attack. All those killed in the midday blast in Spin Boldak, on the Pakistani border,...

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