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The attack occurred in the Casamance region, which has a long history of separatist violence. The soldiers were killed by a rocket-propelled grenade after their vehicle became stuck in mud near the border with Guinea-Bissau, the army says. There has been...
Tags: Senegal, soldiers kill, casamance region, Casamance, Guinea-Bissau
The ever-present perils of the Panjwaii claimed the life of another young Canadian soldier today when his armoured vehicle struck a roadside bomb while returning from a mission to root out Taliban command centres and weapons caches...Jonathan Couturier,...
Tags: Afghanistan, Kandahar City, Canadian, Jonathan Couturier, roadside bombs, Kandahar Airfield, Quebec City Le Soleil, soldiers kill, explosive device, Kabul, Kandahar
Attacks continue despite Turkish government moves to boost Kurdish rights, aimed at addressing decades-old Kurdish complaints of discrimination in an effort to erode support for the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and help combat violence and poverty in...
Tags: Turkey, Dogan Holding, Dogan Yayin Holding, Turkish Finance Ministry, soldiers kill, biggest media, media group, PKK, unpaid tax
Three soldiers were killed in an attack on a coalition forces base in the former Shiite militia stronghold of Basra, the U.S. military said Friday. The soldiers were killed about 9:15 p.m. Thursday when their base near Basra's airport was hit by "indirect...
Tags: Iraqi, Basra, Baghdad Jadida, U.S, soldiers kill, indirect fire, Shiite, operating base, contingency operating, Minnesota National Guard
Fri, 22 May 2009 18:29:02 GMT Local Afghan officials say overnight clashes between soldiers and militants affiliated with the Taliban have left almost a dozen gunmen killed. The fighting erupted on Thursday night when the armed men attacked a police...
Tags: Southern Afghanistan, Taliban, U.S, Helmand Province, Marjah, Kabul, Afghan Foreign Ministry, soldiers kill, taliban militants
Three soldiers of the Russian Defense Ministry were killed by unidentified gunmen in Chechnya, Russian news agencies reported on Wednesday. The incident occurred on Tuesday at the outskirts of the village of Bamut in southern Chechnya's Achkhoi-Martan...
Tags: Chechnya, Russian, soldiers kill
Four Colombian soldiers are dead and six are missing after a firefight with Marxist guerrillas, Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos said Tuesday. Earlier media reports had said at least 22 soldiers were missing or killed, but Santos said during a televised...
A roadside bomb killed two American soldiers and wounded another in the Iraqi capital on Monday, the US military said. The morning attack occurred in the central Baghdad district of Karadah, an email from the US military said, adding that the injured...
Tags: Shiite New Baghdad, Iraqi, roadside bombs, Aswat al-Iraq, Shiite Muslims, Moqtada al-Sadr, U.S, allied sunni, bombs kill, soldiers kill
Afghanistan's Helmand province , the military alliance said Friday. The nation's Interior Ministry, meanwhile, said three Taliban militants died in a fight on Friday with police in a separate district of the same province...Southern Afghanistan is at...
Tags: afghanistan, killed, militants, coalition, Interior Ministry, Afghanistanï, war, Helmand, NATO, soldiers kill
Colonel Ariel Bernardo, a brigade commander in Bicol, said the soldiers were on a motorcycle and were on the way back to an army detachment from a public market in Sorsogon province when they were attacked by suspected members of the New People's Army....
Tags: Sorsogon, soldiers kill, Philippines, magallanes town, Ariel Bernardo, New People's Army, sorsogon province, Magallanes