Somali President Safe After Hotel Bombing

Somalia's newly elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud listens to proceedings after winning the election, in Mogadishu, September 10, 2012. Somalia's new president is safe after two suicide bombers attacked a Mogadishu hotel where he was speaking. VOA correspondent Gabe Joselow, who was at the site of the attack, says two bombs detonated outside the Jazeera Hotel...

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Tribal elder, policemen among 13 killed in Afghanistan

KABUL (PAN): Thirteen people were killed, seven injured and three others detained during separate gun attacks and operations in different provinces of the country, officials said on Wednesday. In central Maidan Wardak province, Afghan and foreign troops conducted a security operation -- codenamed Thunder -- in Syedabad, Chak, Nirkh and Jalrez districts. The offensive would...

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US ambassador to Libya, three staff killed in rocket attack

(Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on Tuesday night that targeted his car in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, a Libyan official said on Wednesday. "The American ambassador and three staff members were killed when gunmen fired rockets at them," the official in Benghazi told Reuters. Asked about the deaths,...

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Sep. 12., 2012. - ISAF Joint Command Morning Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan and coalition security forces confirmed today the arrest of a senior Taliban facilitator in Talah wa Barfak district, Baghlan province, which occurred Tuesday. The arrested Taliban facilitator is believed to be a major figure in the region’s improvised explosive device network, which had targeted Afghan and coalition security forces, as...

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Sep. 12., 2012. - RC-East operational update

BAGRAM, Afghanistan - Afghan and coalition forces killed six insurgents, detained five, located a weapons cache and cleared six improvised explosive devices during operations in eastern Afghanistan throughout the past 24 hours, Sept. 11. Ghazni province Afghan National Security Forces and coalition forces found and safely cleared an improvised explosive device in...

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