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News Source: Times Online
| 5 months ago
A US missile attack killed at least nine militants at a South Waziristan training camp yesterday ahead of a planned ground offensive by the Pakistani Army on the mountainous tribal region. Two or three pilotless American aircraft fired at least four...
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News Source: The Daily Star
| 5 months ago
Hardline Islamist insurgents killed Somalia's security minister and at least 30 other people on Thursday in the deadliest suicide bomb attack yet in the Horn of Africa nation, officials said. National Security Minister Omar Hashi Aden was a key...
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News Source: Los Angeles Times
| 5 months ago
Islamic insurgents claim responsibility for the attack, the latest violence in a seesaw battle with government forces for control of the African nation...He was meeting with other government officials and clan elders in the central Somalia town of...
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News Source: Voice of America
| 5 months ago
The internal security minister in Somalia's fragile, internationally-backed government has been killed in a suicide attack. The blast, which took place in the town of Beledweyne near the Ethiopian border, killed at least 20 people. Omar Hashi Aden...
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News Source: B92
| 5 months ago
Somalia's Security Minister Omar Hashi Aden has been killed in a suicide car bomb attack north of the capital Mogadishu, witnesses and officials say. Somali diplomats were also reportedly among at least 10 people killed in the blast at a hotel in...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| 5 months ago
A suicide bombing outside a hotel in western Somalia killed at least 20 people Thursday including the national security minister. The Somali president accused al-Qaida of being behind the attack. Witness Mohamed Nur said a small car headed toward the...
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News Source: Hindustan times
| 5 months ago
A suspected US missile strike killed five people in Pakistan's northwest tribal belt on Thursday, where the military is poised to attack a feared Taliban commander, officials said. The attack hit 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the main town of Wana in...
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News Source: Denver Post
| 5 months ago
Somalia — At least 18 people, including the police chief, were killed Wed nesday after government forces carried out a predawn attack on an Islamist rebel stronghold in the capital, witnesses said. Somali forces have been fighting desperately for...
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News Source: Khaleej Times
| 5 months ago
The problem is that “at a strategic level Pakistan and the US are not on the same page,” Innocent said. “Until US lawmakers recognize that, we are going to be in Afghanistan in perpetuity.” Islamabad remains reluctant to move against the...
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News Source: The Boston Globe
| 5 months ago
Heavy fighting between hardline Islamist rebels and government forces in Somalia's capital on Wednesday killed at least 22 people, including Mogadishu's police chief. Insurgents with links to al Qaeda stepped up attacks on the government in early...