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Al-Qaeda linked militants who control much of Somalia are looking to extend their operations and carry out attacks ...

Three Yemeni soldiers and 10 suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen were killed in clashes on the outskirts of the militant-held ...

US President Barack Obama on Wednesday expressed his "sorrow" to Afghan President Hamid Karzai over recent civilian ...

Two wild elephants trampled one person to death in a three-hour rampage in the southern Indian city of Mysore early ...

A wave of NATO air strikes battered Tripoli early Wednesday, piling pressure on embattled Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi ...

Vandals tried to set fire to a mosque in the northern West Bank, causing damage to the inside, Palestinian security ...

Attacks killed five American soldiers and 20 Iraqis on Monday, the deadliest day for US forces in Iraq in more than ...

France, which holds a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, said Monday it was backing Ban Ki-moon`s ...

Sri Lanka on Monday opened a communications tower that will bring national television and radio back to the north of ...

Nigeria`s most prominent militant group MEND on Monday threatened to attack facilities of the Italian energy firm Eni ...

Three Bulgarian helicopter crew on a UN contract kidnapped in Sudan`s troubled Darfur region were released on Monday ...

US missiles killed 18 militants in Pakistan`s tribal district of South Waziristan on Monday, destroying compounds and ...

US drone strikes on Monday killed 15 militants in Pakistan`s tribal district of South Waziristan, destroying compounds ...

At least 18 people were killed on Sunday in a bomb blast at a bakery in northwest Pakistan, police and government ...

Afghan authorities said Sunday they had captured 11 people accused of carrying out a deadly attack on an Italian-led ...