Eight Iraqi civilians were killed and four others were wounded in a suicide truck bomb explosion north of Baghdad that was followed by a clash between police and dozens of gunmen, an official said Sunday.
A suicide bomber on a motorbike detonated his explosives in a crowded marketplace near Afghan police Saturday, killing nine people and injuring at least 29, officials said.
A bomb in a parked car went off near a police patrol in Baghdad's downtown shopping district Friday, killing four people including two policemen, the police said.
A look at some of the deadliest violence involving Pakistani security forces and Islamic militants since Pakistan sent its forces into tribal regions near Afghanistan in late 2001 in support of the U.S.-led war on terrorism:
Shelling resumed early Wednesday in an area of northwest Pakistan where battles between troops and militants have killed up to 250 people and sent thousands more fleeing, witnesses said.
A roadside bomb exploded next to an Australian armored vehicle in south-central Afghanistan on Monday, the first combat death suffered by Australia's military contingent, the country's government said. A second soldier suffered serious wounds.
Sixteen militants fighting under a wanted Uzbek warlord with a $200,000 bounty on his head were killed in airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan, an official said Monday.
Twenty militants and two soldiers died in a battle in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, an army spokesman said.
A bombing and a gunbattle killed four police officers and four militants in violence-ridden Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.
Dozens of hooded youths battered two police vehicles with metal bars, set fire to more than a dozen parked cars and torched a community center in northeast France, officials said Friday.
U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops clashed with insurgents during a raid in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, and civilians as well as militants were killed. In the country's volatile south, separate explosions apparently targeting NATO forces killed two children and a British soldier.
Militants holding some 230 Pakistani troops killed three of the captive soldiers before dawn Thursday in apparent retaliation for army raids on guerrilla hide-outs near the Afghan border, officials said.
The president escapes an apparent assassination attempt but nearly two dozen others are killed. A suicide bombing by an al-Qaida affiliate leaves at least 28 coast guard officers dead. A car bombing targets European workers and their Algerian police escorts.
Afghan and U.S.-led coalition troops using airstrikes killed more than 20 suspected militants in southern Afghanistan on Monday, the coalition said, days after President Hamid Karzai renewed his offer to hold peace talks with the Taliban.
Taliban militants hanged a teenager in southern Afghanistan because he had U.S. money in his pocket, and they stuffed five $1 bills in his mouth as a warning to others not to use dollars, police said Monday. Taliban militants elsewhere killed eight police.
Hamas and Fatah loyalists clashed Saturday at a mosque in the southern Gaza Strip, leaving nine people wounded in the latest flare-up of Palestinian infighting, witnesses and medical officials said.
Some of the deadliest insurgent attacks in Afghanistan since the U.S.-led offensive began on Oct. 7, 2001:
Five security officials and three suspected Islamic militants were killed in clashes this week in Algeria, police and media reports said Thursday.
A daylong battle in southern Afghanistan's poppy-growing belt Tuesday killed more than 60 Taliban fighters and one soldier from the U.S.-led coalition, military officials said.
Armed men ambushed an aid convoy in Darfur, wounding three humanitarian workers, the U.N. mission to Sudan said Saturday.
Dozens of gunmen raided a checkpoint near a stronghold of Taliban and al-Qaida militants in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday and abducted seven soldiers, a local official said.
Fifteen Pakistani soldiers were killed in a militant attack on a military post near the Afghan border, an army spokesman said Tuesday.
Afghan police killed three Taliban commanders allegedly involved in the abduction of 23 South Koreans two months ago, the Interior Ministry said.
Pakistan vowed to step up its fight against terrorism Friday after a suicide attacker penetrated a high-security military base and detonated an explosive-laden vehicle, killing 16 soldiers from an elite counterterrorism task force.
The city's embattled police chief, acknowledging that police alone cannot quell a run of deadly violence, has called on 10,000 men to patrol the streets to reduce crime.
Do you believe that we as black people work together to flourish as a society of healthy habits and compassionate hearts? No, we behave like animals constantly killing each other for simple things, which could have been resolved without violence.
The religious right has always liked to pretend that its opposition to the "homosexual agenda" is purely a Biblical-law thing that isn't innately hateful -- remember "Hate the sin, love the sinner"? And their opposition to bias-crime laws really isn't about coddling people who co …
JUST after the evening meal to break the Ramadan fast on September 29th, around 30 vehicles loaded with several hundred Sudanese rebels ripped through the perimeter of an African Union (AU) peacekeepers' base on the edge of Haskanita, a small town in southern Darfur, the embatt …
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It was a simple text message. "Quit your job or be killed." Loay Mohammed Al-Tahar had known he was working in a dangerous job, interpreting for British military special units that were arresting and interrogating militias in Basra. But he didn't realize just how dangerous.
The Immigration Minister, Kevin Andrews, denies his comments about African refugees have fuelled racial violence in Melbourne.
Another study on video games and this one's about the parents! This study, conducted by Information Solutions Group for developer PopCap Games, states that parents are more inclined to allow their sons to play "hardcore" (meaning action-oriented and violent) games more than they …
The truly terrifying aspect about Crandon and similar senseless shootings is that most of them were not done for profit or revenge, but were entirely random acts – or, at most, a horrifying reaction to an imagined affront.
A Family Dollar clerk in Forth Worth, Texas was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after police said he used a crowbar to club a deaf customer. Cody Goodnight, 30, has been deaf since before the age of 2 and uses sign language to communicate.
Every time we read a news article about an episode of group violence directed at one individual, be it the story out of West Virginia or Jena, AL, we are appalled.
The changed version, while going some way to aleviate the concerns of the Board, still did not meet their requirements for classification, and will not be legally acceptable for release in the United Kingdom on any fomat.
Interesting article that takes a look at various gangs and criminal or political organizations such as MS13, the Yakuza, the Crips, the Russian Mafia and the IRA
A sheriff's young deputy killed his ex-girlfriend and five other youths at a party in a small town in Wisconsin, authorities said, but apparently left no clue to his motive for the massacre.
As reported in today's New York Times, rape has reached epidemic levels in the African nation of Congo. This East African nation, which borders Rwanda, suffered through violent civil war in the past, was seen to be improving, due to the democratic elections in July.
Currently, it is the Western Zone where the public authorities annd the militias have their closest ties.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom proclaimed the nation's war on drugs a total failure and insisted the crime rate would go down if the government spent money on treatment as opposed to jailing people with drug problems.
Burma's military junta has detained a local UN worker in Rangoon amid continuing arrests and global outrage over the regime's violent clampdown on dissent.
Attempts to counter a rise in gang-related violence in Pasadena continued Wednesday evening at a "peacemaking" event where concerned residents traded ideas on solidarity and change.
The men on the corner of 16th and Page in North Philadelphia say they know what their neighborhood needs to stem the violence that has killed 306 people citywide so far this year, and that does not include putting 10,000 men on the street, as some black community leaders have pro …
Floating face down in a filthy pool of water, a tangled strip of saffron cloth – the distinctive garb a Buddhist monk – still clinging to his neck, the images are a gruesome reminder of the brutality of last week's military crackdown on Burmese protesters. The graphic v …
Although the images of violence coming out of the turmoil are limited due to the Internet shutdown, 13 can be found here. View with caution: Some of these images are disturbing.
Japan is sending its deputy foreign minister to Burma to investigate the death of a Japanese journalist, who was covering the anti-government protests. Japan said it would review its aid programmes to Burma over the fatal shooting of Kenji Nagai on Thursday.
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Buddhist monks are continuing their protests in Rangoon, despite the use of force by the Burmese security forces. People inside Burma have been e-mailing the BBC News website and talking to the BBC Burmese Service about the growing unrest.