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Taliban attacks down for first time

The number of Taliban attacks in Afghanistan has declined for the first time in a "welcome" trend in the ten-year-old ...

Several dead after Iraq forces end hostage siege

Up to 15 people were killed on Monday after Iraqi security forces fought gunmen and suicide bombers who had seized ...

Yemeni general killed, 30 troops taken hostage: sources

A general was killed and 30 other troops loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh were taken hostage when ...

Jazeera says Israeli court frees journalist

An Israeli military court decided on Monday to release Al-Jazeera journalist Samer Allawi who was detained on August ...

Anti-Kadhafi fighters take a pounding in Sirte

Anti-Kadhafi fighters on Wednesday admitted heavy losses and hospitals full of wounded from their assault on the ...

Afghan peace council head killed in Kabul

Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani and head of the council tasked with trying to negotiate a political end to ...

TNI to modernize its main armament system

Indonesia`s National Defense Forces (TNI), with the support of the government and the parliament, is determined to ...

Govt to allocate Rp99 tln for main armament systems

The government will allocate Rp99 trillion for the maintenance and purchase of main armament systems until 2014, ...

Rapper Gucci Mane sent to jail in Georgia

Rapper Gucci Mane will spend the next six months in jail in Georgia after admitting on Tuesday to pushing a woman out ...

Battle in Kabul heightens Afghan security fears

A deadly 19-hour Taliban assault on Kabul that turned its most heavily secured district into a battle zone has ...

Thousands of Syrian refugees flood into Turkey: report

Around 4,300 Syrians have fled a brutal crackdown against pro-democracy protesters and are staying in camps in ...

Police still hunting mastermind of attack on Palu officers

The police`s anti-terror unit Densus 88 is continuing to hunt the mastermind of last May`s attack on police officers ...

Stop disintegration of the family in Europe - Pope

Pope Benedict warned on Sunday that the traditional family in Europe was "disintegrating" under the weight of ...

Pakistan pm announces probe into bin Laden raid

Islamabad (ANTARA News/AFP - Pakistan`s prime minister Tuesday ordered an independent commission to investigate the ...

U.S. names Caucasus Islamist group to terrorism list

The United States on Thursday named an Islamist insurgent group in Russia`s North Caucasus to its official list of ...