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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