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N'DJAMENA (Reuters) – Chadian soldiers in Mali have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the al Qaeda commander behind a bloody mass hostage-taking at an Algerian gas plant earlier this year, Chad's military said. His death would be a major blow to Islamist rebels in northern Mali who have been pushed into their mountain strongholds by French and [...]
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Ten Chadian soldiers killed fighting Islamists in Mali
Posted by admin on February 24th, 2013
N'DJAMENA/GAO (Reuters) – Ten Chadian soldiers were killed in combat in northern Mali's mountainous border with Algeria where Islamist rebels regrouped after losing urban areas to a French-led offensive, Chad's army said on Sunday. The latest Chadian fatalities came in an area of the Adrar des Ifoghas mountains where 13 Chadian soldiers were killed in [...]
Palestinians clash with Israeli soldiers at West Bank encampment
Posted by admin on February 2nd, 2013
BURIN, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli soldiers used tear gas and stun grenades on Saturday to disperse about 150 Palestinians trying to block expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Both sides sustained light injuries as the soldiers removed about a dozen tents and small huts from land adjacent to the Palestinian northern [...]
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No Comments »Suicide bomber kills 11 Yemeni soldiers
Posted by admin on January 28th, 2013
SANAA (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed 11 Yemeni soldiers on Monday after troops backed by tanks attacked an al Qaeda stronghold following the collapse of talks to free three Western hostages, local officials and residents said. Tackling lawlessness in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula state, which flanks the world’s biggest oil exporter Saudi Arabia, is [...]
Slideshow: SLIDESHOW: 8 INSANELY CUTE Child Soldiers
Posted by admin on January 23rd, 2013
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Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian woman in West Bank
Posted by admin on January 23rd, 2013
HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 21-year-old Palestinian woman near the West Bank city of Hebron on Wednesday and wounded another local youth, Palestinian medics said. Witnesses said Lubna Hanash and her companions were walking to al-Arroub College when men in Israeli military uniforms travelling in a civilian car shot [...]
Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian youth in West Bank
Posted by admin on January 15th, 2013
BUDRUS, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli soldiers shot dead 17-year-old Palestinian Sameer Awad near the village of Budrus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Palestinian witnesses and medics said, and a second boy was shot and injured by soldiers in a nearby village. Violence and deadly confrontations have become more frequent in the Palestinian [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Bank, Israeli, kill, Palestinian, soldiers, West, youth' No Comments »Bomb kills 14 Pakistani soldiers in North Waziristan
Posted by admin on January 13th, 2013
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) – A roadside bomb killed as many as 14 Pakistani soldiers in the northern border region of North Waziristan on Sunday, military officials said, a day after the Pakistani Taliban leader called for attacks on the military in the area to stop. The explosion occurred on a road about 50 km (30 [...]
Niger says sending 500 soldiers to Mali operation
Posted by admin on January 12th, 2013
PARIS (Reuters) – Niger will send 500 soldiers to join an international military campaign in Mali led by West African regional bloc ECOWAS to quash advances by Islamist rebels, Foreign Minister Mohamed Bazoum told Reuters on Saturday. “We are sending a battalion of around 500 individuals under the ECOWAS plan,” Bazoum told Reuters by telephone, [...]
Somali officials say French soldiers try to rescue hostage
Posted by admin on January 12th, 2013
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – At least two civilians were killed when helicopters believed to belong to the French military attacked a base belonging to al Shabaab insurgents in a southern Somalia village to rescue a French hostage, a Somali government official and rebels said. French officials were not immediately available to confirm the raid. Authorities in [...]
