Dozens of people were killed Monday in and around the northern Syrian city of Jisr Al-Shugur in the third consecutive day of violence there, according to reports from the government and opposition groups.
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Twenty-five people have been killed by government security forces in the latest fighting in Syria, taking place in the northwestern city Jisr al-Shaghour, a human rights group said Sunday.
It’s one thing to defy death as high-wire walker Nik Wallenda routinely does.
Four NATO service members were killed Saturday when a roadside bomb exploded in eastern Afghanistan, but this didn’t stop U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates from touting security strides that could help coalition and Afghan forces turn “a corner” in the fight against militants.
High-profile Pakistan militant leader Ilyas Kashmiri has been killed in a US drone strike in South Waziristan, locals and officials say.
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The man described by counterterrorism officials as al Qaeda’s “military brain,” Ilyas Kashmiri, was killed in a drone strike Friday night in Pakistan, a spokesman for his group, the jihadist Harakat-ul-Jihad-Islami, said.
An investigation is under way after four contractors had been killed in an explosion and fire at an oil refinery in west Wales.
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Four folks had been killed in an explosion and fire at an oil refinery in west Wales, police say.
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A bombing in northern Afghanistan that killed a top Afghan official and wounded a German general Saturday came as tribal leaders warned that insurgent attacks were discouraging some civilians from cooperating with security efforts, officials said.
The police commander for northern Afghanistan, Gen Daud Daud, and a number of other people are killed in a suicide bomb attack on a governor’s office.
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