Posts Tagged ‘attackers’

Attackers blow up main oil pipeline in Yemen: officials

SANAA (Reuters) – Unidentified attackers blew up Yemen’s main oil pipeline, forcing the country to shut down one of its most lucrative sources of income, government and tribal sources said on Saturday. Yemen’s oil and gas pipelines have been repeatedly sabotaged by insurgents and tribesmen since anti-government protests created a power vacuum in 2011, causing [...]

Attackers in Afghanistan wore US uniforms

Coalition military authorities in Afghanistan say the insurgents who attacked a British airfield in southwestern Afghanistan on Friday, killing two U.S. Marines, wore U.S. Army uniforms and destroyed six Harrier fighter jets. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

Islamists kill 15 Egyptians, Israel strikes attackers

CAIRO (Reuters) – Islamist gunmen killed at least 15 Egyptian policemen and seized an army tank in an assault on a Sinai police station near the border with Israel on Sunday, the deadliest attack in the region in at least two decades. The attack, which saw Israeli aircraft destroy a vehicle used by the gunmen [...]

Iraq court agrees execution of Baghdad church attackers

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s highest court ratified death sentences on Thursday for three men convicted of a 2010 attack on a Syrian Catholic cathedral in Baghdad, the bloodiest attack on Iraqi Christians after the 2003 invasion. Gunmen linked to al Qaeda seized hostages during Sunday mass at the Our Lady of Salvation church in Baghdad [...]