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Attacks in Benghazi kill 6 Libyan soldiers
Rooftop snipers and knife-wielding assailants killed six soldiers in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi early Saturday, officials said, in the largest ...
UN says Afghan children casualties spike in war
The number of children killed and injured in Afghanistan's war has risen sharply this year, the U.N. Children's Fund, said, calling the trend ...
Syrian extremist rebels raid Shiite village
Syrian rebels, including Sunni extremists, stormed a village and battled pro-regime militiamen, killing more than 60 Shiite fighters and civilians in ...
Georgia shuts 2 bases in Afghanistan after attacks
Georgia said Wednesday that the country has closed two of its bases in Afghanistan after 10 of its soldiers were killed by militant attacks within the ...
Afghan Taliban boldly attack on Kabul airport
Seven Taliban fighters with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns launched a rare assault on NATO's operational headquarters at the military ...
Polish soldier killed in Afghanistan
Poland's Defense Ministry says a Polish soldier has died of wounds suffered in an explosion of a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. The ministry said that ...
Insider attack kills 3 Americans in Afghanistan
A man in an Afghan army uniform turned his weapon on American trainers working with him in the country's east on Saturday, killing three of them, ...
Suicide blasts kill 19 in Iraq, including Iranians
Suicide attackers rammed car bombs on Friday into a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims and a police checkpoint west of Baghdad, killing 19 people in all, ...
Georgia minister visits Afghanistan after 7 deaths
Georgia's defense minister visited his troops in Afghanistan on Friday, a day after seven Georgian soldiers were killed in a huge truck bomb blast at ...
Georgia says 6 soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Georgia's Defense Ministry says at least six Georgian soldiers have been killed in an attack by insurgents in Afghanistan. Ministry spokesman Irakli ...
Afghan Taliban kill 4 police in checkpoint attacks
Taliban insurgents attacked two checkpoints in eastern Afghanistan, killing four police officers in the latest test of Afghan forces' abilities as ...
3 NATO service members killed in Afghanistan
NATO says three of its service members and one civilian working with the international coalition in Afghanistan have been killed in three separate ...
UN: More than 1,000 Iraqis killed in May violence
The United Nations mission to Iraq said Saturday that more than 1,000 people were killed in violence across the country last month — the highest ...
Military probing Taliban attack that killed 2
The U.S. military has begun to investigate a Taliban attack on a U.S.-British base in Afghanistan last September that killed two Marines and destroyed ...
Bombs tear through Iraqi capital, killing over 60
A coordinated wave of car bombings tore through mostly Shiite areas of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 66 people and maiming nearly 200 as ...
NATO service member killed in Afghanistan
An insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan has killed a NATO service member, the coalition said. The U.S.-led military coalition says the service ...
Iraq officials says separate attacks kill 14
A string of attacks killed at least 14 people in Iraq on Sunday, officials said, in the latest violence of what has been a particularly bloody month ...
Roadside bomb kills 2 Yemeni soldiers
Security officials say two Yemeni soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb in a restive province where high-level intelligence officers have been ...
Suicide bomber dies in blast in Afghan capital
A would-be suicide bomber died when his explosives-rigged vest went off prematurely in Afghanistan's capital on Saturday morning, police said.
Q&A: What is known about London attack
A look at the key known facts about attack in south London in which two men killed a British soldier near military barracks Wednesday. Q: What ...
Colombia: 10 soldiers killed by in rebel attack
At least 10 Colombian soldiers were killed and six wounded Wednesday in a pre-dawn attack on an army patrol with homemade explosives by the country's ...
Attacks kill 16 in Iraq, 8 police kidnapped
A string of attacks killed at least 16 people in Iraq on Saturday, while gunmen abducted eight policemen guarding a post on the country's main highway ...
Twin bombs strike Afghan checkpoint, killing 1
Two bombs exploded at a checkpoint outside a provincial governor's compound in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least one police officer, ...