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/ 10 October 2008
A suicide bomber killed at least 20 people in an attack on a tribal council meeting in Pakistan’s north-west Orakzai region on Friday.
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/ 28 September 2008
The military coup leader who seized power in Mauritania last month has rejected an African ultimatum to reinstate the president.
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/ 26 September 2008
Pakistani forces have killed up to 1 000 Islamist militants in fighting in the Bajaur region this month, an army commander said on Friday.
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/ 24 September 2008
Gunmen killed 20 people, including 12 policemen, in an ambush north-east of Baghdad on Wednesday, police said.
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/ 23 September 2008
Pakistani troops backed by helicopter gunships killed 60 Taliban and al-Qaeda militants near the Afghan border, officials said on Tuesday.
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/ 23 September 2008
The leader of al-Qaeda in North Africa has called for Muslims to unite in holy war against the region’s governments.
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/ 21 September 2008
A suicide truck bomber attacked the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on Saturday, killing at least 45 people and wounding nearly 250.
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/ 17 September 2008
The United States embassy in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, was hit by a car bombing and rocket fire on Wednesday, sparking a series of explosions.
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/ 15 September 2008
Firing by Pakistani troops forced US military helicopters to turn back after they crossed into Pakistan on Monday, Pakistani security officials said.
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/ 15 September 2008
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates flew into Baghdad on Monday, preparing to hand command of the war in Iraq to a new general.
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/ 12 September 2008
An order issued by George Bush giving US forces carte blanche to mount operations inside Pakistan raised fears that the conflict was spreading.
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/ 11 September 2008
President George Bush secretly approved orders allowing US forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan, the New York Times reports.
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/ 8 September 2008
The foreign ministry in Islamabad termed the incursion ”a gross violation of Pakistan’s territory”.
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/ 5 September 2008
Al-Qaeda issued new threats against Denmark on Friday, saying an attack on the Danish Embassy in Pakistan is just the start of its retaliation.
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/ 5 September 2008
A new report by a major US human rights group on the situation in Somalia criticises United States counter-terrorism policies.
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/ 4 September 2008
Pakistan is determined to defend its territorial integrity, it said on Thursday, as anger mounted over a raid by US-led troops on a border village.
A suicide bomber in a car killed 25 people on Thursday and a roadside bomb killed five members of a family in Diyala, Iraq, police and witnesses said.
An Iraqi clan overwhelmed by shock and grief buried its dead on Monday after a suicide bomber killed 25 people at a celebratory banquet in Baghdad.
An explosion of piracy this month off Somalia is funding an insurgency onshore as the hijackers funnel ransom payments to Islamist rebels.
Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri appeared in a new videotape posted on the internet on Friday.
Pakistani troops killed 35 militants in fighting in the Swat Valley north-west of Islamabad on Saturday after the militants ambushed a patrol.
A suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a police station in Pakistan’s Swat Valley on Saturday, killing at least eight policemen.
A double bombing in Algeria killed at least 11 people on Wednesday a day after an attack that killed 43 people at a military academy.
The head of an anti-al-Qaeda militia has survived a ninth assassination attempt against him, police said on Wednesday.
Al-Qaeda’s North Africa wing has called for a holy war in Mauritania to establish Islamic rule after a military junta toppled the country’s president.
Senior al-Qaeda commander Abu Saeed al-Masri has been killed in recent clashes with Pakistani forces in a Pakistani region near the Afghan border.
Kenya on Thursday commemorated the 10th anniversary of explosions that tore through Washington’s missions in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.
A jury convicted Osama bin Laden’s former driver of supporting terrorism on Wednesday in the first war-crimes trial at Guantánamo Bay.
Abousfian Abdelrazik is angry and wants to go home. But the father-of-four is holed up inside Canada’s embassy in Sudan and cannot leave the country.
Al-Qaeda’s North Africa wing said it was behind a deadly suicide bombing in Algeria on Sunday, according to a statement posted on the internet.
A car bomb exploded near a police station in a town east of Algiers on Sunday, wounding 21 people including six police officers.
European intelligence chiefs have launched a major investigation into the threat posed by female Islamic militants within the European Union.