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A suicide bomber killed an Islamist militant commander in Pakistan`s northwestern city of Peshawar on Monday, along ...

The Sudanese military has freed 14 Chinese workers "kidnapped" by rebels in the country`s South Kordofan state, the ...

South Sudan on Monday accused its former foes in the Khartoum government of arming gunmen who killed over 40 people in ...

Fierce clashes broke out near the Syrian capital on Sunday as President Bashar al-Assad`s opponents sought to crank up ...

Gunmen have shot dead a policeman in Nigeria`s northern city of Kaduna, police said Sunday, not far from where the ...

A secular bloc which won the most seats in Iraq`s March 2010 vote will end a boycott of parliament that it began in ...

Gunmen in Nigeria have killed at least one officer after opening fire on a police station in the city of Kano, where ...

Riots erupted in Dakar Friday night, leaving a policeman dead, as angry protesters took to the streets after a court ...

A suicide bomber set off an explosives-packed car outside a Baghdad hospital on Friday, killing 31 people in the ...

A shoe advertised as the one Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard lost when she was bundled to a car by her ...

A fresh explosion rocked a bus terminal in Nigeria`s violence-hit city of Kano on Thursday forcing the area to be ...

A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in the southern Afghan city of Lashkar Gah on Thursday, killing at least ...

The top US Senate Republican on Tuesday said he could back easing sanctions on Myanmar if it advances a host of ...

The Palestinian Central Elections Commission began work in Gaza on Wednesday after Hamas gave the organisation access ...

Nigeria`s president, accused of failing to contain intensifying Islamist violence, fired the country`s police chief on ...