Deadly suicide bombing plot foiled in capital Kabul

Officials in interior affairs ministry of Afghanistan on Friday announced Afghan security forces arrested at least five suspected suicide bombers including a woman in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.The suicide bombers were reportedly looking to carry out attack in Kabul city and were arrested by security forces on Thursday.Interior ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi...

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7 killed in bomb attacks against Iraqi mosques

BAGHDAD, April 19 (Xinhua) -- Seven people were killed and 24 others injured when two roadside bombs hit worshipers near two mosques north of Iraq's capital Baghdad on Friday, the police said.A bomb struck worshipers when they were leaving a Sunni mosque near the town of Kalise in Diyala province, a local police source told Xinhua.Six people were killed and 12 others...

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13 Afghan policemen killed in Taliban attack

GHAZNI, Afghanistan, April 19 (Xinhua) -- Thirteen Afghan Local Police (ALP) personnel were killed early Friday morning when Taliban launched attack on a checkpoint in Andar district in the country's eastern province of Ghazni, an official said."Taliban raided an ALP checkpoint in Gandaeer area in Andar district early Friday morning, killing 13 ALP cops," the district administrative...

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French kidnap family freed in Nigeria, Biya

The Moulin-Fournier family RFI The French family kidnapped in Cameroon in February have been freed in Nigeria, where they had been taken by members of the Boko Haram Islamist sect, Cameroon’s President Paul Biya announced on Friday. Paris has confirmed the news.The three adults and four children of the Moulin-Fermier family, who were kidnapped near  Cameroon’s Waza...

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7 injured in Helmand car suicide bombing

LASHKARGAH (PAN): Five public order policemen and two civilians were injured in a car suicide bombing on Friday in southern Helmand province, where a major operation against the insurgents was underway, officials said.The bomber detonated his explosives-laden car near a joint convoy of Afghan and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops in Fateh Mohammad area...

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Apr. 19., 2013. - ISAF Joint Command Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan and coalition security force detained a senior Taliban leader and a number of other insurgents during an operation in Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand province, April 18. During the operation, multiple insurgents opened fire on the security force. After positively identifying the threat, the security force engaged the insurgents, wounding...

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Apr. 19., 2013. - RC-East operational update

BAGRAM, Afghanistan - Afghan National Security and coalition forces detained six suspected insurgents, discovered one weapons cache and found and safely cleared six improvised explosive devices during operations in eastern Afghanistan throughout the past 24 hours, April 18. Khowst province Afghan National Security and coalition forces found and safely cleared one IED...

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UAE Arrests Al-Qaida-Linked 'Terrorist Cell'

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Authorities in the United Arab Emirates have arrested seven people they say are part of an al-Qaida-linked terrorist cell. The official WAM news agency said Thursday the group was "planning to carry out acts" in the UAE, as well as to recruit others and promote al-Qaida.It said the seven people arrested were of "Arab nationalities" but...

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Gunmen Kill 8 in Kenyan Hotel

GARISSA, KENYA — Gunmen shot dead eight people when they sprayed bullets into a hotel restaurant in the eastern Kenyan town of Garissa on Thursday, the Kenya Red Cross said.The east African nation has suffered a series of grenade and gun attacks since it sent troops into neighbouring Somalia in late 2011 to pursue the al Shabaab rebels linked to al Qaeda.Though the wave...

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Ansar al-Din spokesman to surrender

A one-time spokesman for Malian Islamist group Ansar al-Din said Wednesday (April 17th) that he was ready to turn himself in.Sanda Ould Bouamama told ANI that he was close to the border between Mali and Algeria and was going to surrender to Algerian authorities."I have walked more than 80 kilometres on foot to reach the Algerian border so that I can surrender to the Algerian...

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Baghdad suicide bomb blast at Internet cafe kills 27

(Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself inside a Baghdad cafe popular with young people using the Internet, killing a least 27 and wounding dozens more in one of the worst single attacks in the Iraqi capital this year.The late evening blast in west Baghdad came just two days before provincial elections that will be a major test of Iraq's political stability more than a...

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