A Christian aid group denied on Sunday Taliban accusations that its team of medical workers killed in Afghanistan had been proselytising.
Pride mixed with trepidation as Afghans voted on Thursday, an oddly formal atmosphere counterbalanced by fear the Taliban would disrupt the poll.
No image available
/ 1 February 2008
A female suicide bomber killed 45 people when she blew herself up at a popular pet market in central Baghdad on Friday, police said, in the deadliest attack in the Iraqi capital in six months. Another 82 were wounded in the blast at the crowded Ghazil market, one of Baghdad’s most popular gathering places, which has been bombed at least three times in the past year.
No image available
/ 24 January 2008
The police chief of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was killed in a suicide bomb attack on Thursday as he toured the scene of a blast a day earlier in which at least 20 people died. Rescuers were still digging through the rubble of Wednesday’s explosion when an attacker in a police uniform blew himself up.
A United States air strike killed about 25 suspected Iraqi militants linked to Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias on Friday and another 12 al-Qaeda fighters were killed in separate raids, the US military said. US troops said they were engaged in a heavy firefight west of Baquba, capital of volatile Diyala province north of Baghdad, during a dawn raid.
A parked car bomb killed 25 people and wounded 115 when it exploded near an intersection in central Baghdad on Thursday and police said the toll was likely to rise as many bodies were still buried under rubble. Bodies lay strewn around the street after the blast, which smashed three buildings into piles of masonry and concrete.
A suicide bomber killed 18 people and wounded 40 others when he rammed a fuel tanker into protective walls outside a police headquarters in Iraq’s northern oil city of Baiji on Monday, police said. In a separate attack, eight people died and 31 were wounded when a suicide car bomber struck outside the governor’s office in the Shi’ite city of Hilla.
Three Sunni Muslim mosques were attacked and burned south of Baghdad on Thursday, Iraqi police said, in apparent reprisal attacks after suspected al-Qaeda militants blew up the minarets of a revered Shi’ite shrine. Tens of thousands of soldiers were on the streets of Baghdad and other cities enforcing curfews imposed after Wednesday’s bombing.
Twenty-five people were killed and 60 wounded when a car bomb tore through a busy market area in south-western Baghdad on Tuesday, police said. At least two buildings were completely destroyed and many others badly damaged when the bomb went off near a popular outdoor market in Amil, a mostly Shi’ite district.
No image available
/ 5 December 2006
Fiji’s military chief said on Tuesday the army had taken over the country, plunging the South Pacific island nation into its fourth coup in 20 years. ”As of six o’clock this evening the military has taken over the running of the government and the country,” Commander Frank Bainimarama told a news conference in Suva, the capital.