Car bomb blast kills 12 in northern Yemen

A suicide bomber driving an explosive-laden car killed at least 12 people and injured many more  Sana'a: A suicide bomber driving an explosive-laden car killed at least 12 people and injured many more on Friday in Shia-held province of Jawaf, northern Yemen, hours after another suicide bomber failed to reach a Shiite protest in the same province, ministry of defense...

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Deadly 'suicide bomb' outside Turkish police station

A policeman has been killed in a suspected suicide bombing outside a police station in the central Turkish province of Kayseri.Two attackers, who also died, tried to ram a car into the building in the town of Pinarbasi, Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin said.A bomb in the vehicle went off shortly after clashes with security guards.Ten civilians and another police officer...

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R.I.P. - 2nd Lt. Travis A. Morgado

DOD Identifies Army Casualty             The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.             2nd Lt. Travis A. Morgado, 25, of San Jose, Calif., died May 23 in Zharay, Afghanistan, of injuries...

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49 al-Qaida militants killed in fighting with Yemeni troops

ADEN, Yemen, May 24 (Xinhua) -- A total of 49 al-Qaida militants were killed in fighting with Yemeni troops on Thursday in Yemen's southern province of Abyan, a local military official said.Government troops shelled al-Qaida militants in Abyan and managed to foil their attack against an army base west of the terrorists' stronghold at Abyan's second largest town of Jaar,...

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Police commander killed in Uruzgan blast

TRINIKOT (PAN): Two policemen, including a commander killed in mine explosion in central Urozgan province on Friday morning, an official said.Farid Aayel, a spokesman of provincial police headquarters told Pajhwok Afghan News that the incident took place in Khwaja Ahmad area of provincial capital Trinikot city while a commander of a police post and his bodyguard were killed...

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ISAF captures IMU facilitator in northeastern Afghanistan

file photo By Bill Roggio - May 24, 2012 - LWJ Coalition and Afghan special operations forces captured an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) facilitator during a raid today in Badakhshan province. The raid took place just one day after two foreign and two Afghan aid workers were among five people kidnapped in the province. The combined special...

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