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Colombia bombs FARC camp
Bogota: At least 13 rebels were killed Monday when Colombia’s air force bombed a remote FARC encampment near the border with Ecuador, military officials said. “Coordinated joint operations by the police, air force and army that began early Monday resulted in the deaths of 13 terrorists from the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia),” the [...]
Afghan blasts kill soldiers, police, civilians
KABUL: Five foreign soldiers and three police officers were killed in Afghanistan on Sunday, while three civilians lost their lives in separate blasts caused by home-made devices, NATO and the government said. NATO’s International Security Assistance Force also said that a child was was killed after being caught in the crossfire between troops and militants. [...]
Studies explore effects of war on former child soldiers
Despite international bans, more than 250,000 children fight as soldiers in 86 countries across the globe, almost half of them in Africa. Two new studies explored how these children adjust after they return to their homes. Key to successful adaptation, the studies found, was the characteristics of the communities to which the children returned. In [...]
3 dead as Taliban attack US aid group in Afghanistan
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan: Three people, including a German security guard, were killed Friday when suicide bombers and gunmen stormed the compound of a US aid organization in northern Afghanistan in an attack claimed by the Taliban. At least four suicide bombers attacked the premises of Development Alternatives Inc (DAI) in Kunduz city and two detonated their [...]
Thousands flee ethnic bloodshed in Kyrgyzstan
BISHKEK: Tens of thousands of Uzbek refugees have fled raging violence in Kyrgyzstan that left 113 dead as the interim government struggled to stem the worst ethnic clashes since the end of the Soviet Union. Gunbattles between rival groups turned cities into warzones and marauding mobs torched whole villages on a third day of bloodshed [...]
Seven dead as gunmen torch NATO trucks in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Gunmen attacked trucks carrying supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan, gutting several dozen vehicles in an inferno and killing seven people in a brazen assault near Islamabad, police said Wednesday. The overnight attack was unprecedented for its proximity to the Pakistani capital, taking place at a depot on the outskirts of Islamabad on the [...]
Suspected Indian Maoists sabotage train, 65 killed
SARDIHA, India: Suspected Maoist rebels derailed a high-speed train packed with sleeping passengers into the path of a freight train in eastern India Friday, killing at least 65 people, officials said. Police said the death toll was expected to rise with dozens more bodies feared trapped in the mangled wreckage after 13 carriages of the [...]
Five dead as Thai army battle ‘Red Shirts’
BANGKOK: At least five people, including an Italian journalist, were killed Wednesday during an army crackdown on an anti-government protest site in Bangkok, police and a hospital said. “An Italian man was shot and died before arriving at the hospital,” said Police Hospital director Jongjet Aoajenpong. “He’s a journalist. He was shot in the stomach,” [...]
Gunmen in army uniforms massacre 25 people in Iraq
BAGHDAD: Gunmen in army uniforms massacred 25 people from families linked to an anti-Qaeda militia as they swooped on a village south of Baghdad before dawn on Saturday, Iraqi officials said. Five women were among the dead, an interior ministry official said, while a security spokesman blamed Al-Qaeda and said 17 people were arrested in [...]
