Suicide bomb kills 19 outside mosques in Pakistan northwest

Map showing the location of Hangu District (highlighted in red) within the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 22 people on Friday in a crowded market outside two mosques from separate Muslim sects in Pakistan's restive northwest, police and hospital officials said. Two of the dead were policemen.Forty-eight...

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Feb. 01., 2013. - RC-East operational update

BAGRAM, Afghanistan - Afghan and coalition forces detained one insurgent and cleared two improvised explosive devices during operations in eastern Afghanistan throughout the past 24 hours, Jan. 31. Khowst province Afghan and coalition forces detained an insurgent during an operation in Terezayi district. The detained suspect was transferred to a base for questioning....

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DOD Identifies Units for Upcoming Afghanistan Rotation

DOD Identifies Units for Upcoming Afghanistan Rotation             The Department of Defense today identified three major units to deploy as part of the upcoming rotation of forces operating in Afghanistan.  The scheduled rotation involves one Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT) with roughly 2,250 personnel; a Combat...

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Two guards killed in blast outside U.S. embassy in Ankara

People stand outside the entrance of the U.S. embassy in Ankara on February 1, 2013 after a blast killed two security guards and wounded several other people. (AFP) Two security guards were killed in a blast outside the U.S. embassy in Ankara on Friday, local television reported, amid speculation it was a suicide attack.The force of the explosion damaged nearby buildings...

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Gunmen Bomb Police Station, Banks in Northern Nigeria

ABUJA — Gunmen on motorcycles bombed a police station and as many as three banks in Kaduna State in Nigeria on Wednesday night. The attacks come two days after a man claiming to be a leader of Islamist militants known as Boko Haram announced a unilateral truce.   On a scratchy phone line from the town of Birnin Gwari, Abdulkadir Muhammed, a secondary school teacher,...

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