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BBC News
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Gunmen from the Shia militant group Hezbollah have seized most of western Beirut, driving out supporters of the Western-backed government.
The gunmen, who also back Hezbollah's Shia opposition allies, have forced the closure of pro-government media...
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SF Gate
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The British military says an airstrike in Basra has killed four gunmen armed with rocket propelled grenades.
British spokesman Maj. Tom Holloway says the group was attacked just after midnight by a warplane. He says four gunmen died when their vehicle..
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CNN
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Gunmen kidnapped six foreign oil workers including three Americans from a ship off the coast of Nigeria on Friday, industry sources said, bringing to 22 the number of foreigners held in Africa's top oil producer.
Suspected militants in two speed boats..
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FOX News
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Hamas and Fatah gunmen exchanged automatic weapons fire Friday at a Gaza City university and Israeli war planes pummeled Hamas targets for a third straight day, killing eight people in response to the Islamic group's rocket attacks on southern Israel...
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USA Today
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A political crisis threatening President Gen. Pervez Musharraf exploded into violence Saturday when clashes between pro-government gunmen and the opposition killed at least 28 people and thwarted a major rally against military rule.
The violence in Pak..
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CNN
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Gunmen shot and killed 23 members of an ancient religious sect in northern Iraq after stopping their bus and separating out followers of other faiths, while car bombings in the capital killed at least another 20 people.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, i..
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SF Gate
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Gunmen in northern Iraq stopped a bus filled with Christians and members of a tiny, mostly Kurdish religious sect on Sunday, police said, separating out the groups and taking 23 of the passengers away to be shot.
The attack came on a violent day in Bag..
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Washington Post
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A day after twin truck bombings laid waste to predominantly Shiite neighborhoods in the northern Iraqi city of Tall Afar, marauding Shiite gunmen and police executed dozens of Sunnis in retaliatory attacks that many Iraqis feared might precipitate a resur..
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MSNBC
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Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a brother-in-law of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in a raid on his home in Madagascar, his brother said Wednesday...
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BBC News
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Heavy fighting has broken out again in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli between opposition gunmen and government supporters, officials say.
Overnight, at least 13 people were killed as Hezbollah attacked forces of the pro-government Druze leader,..
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BBC News
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Two foreign contractors, a Briton and a Kenyan, working for the UN in Somalia have been seized by unknown gunmen in southern Somalia, reports say.
They were doing work for the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.
The incident happened on a road bet..
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FOX News
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Taliban gunmen abducted 18 members of a South Korean church group, and a purported spokesman for the Islamic militia said Friday that it will question the 15 women and three men about their activities in Afghanistan before deciding their fate.
Gunmen s..
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CNN
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Insurgents wearing military uniforms killed 29 people in an attack early Tuesday on a village near Baquba, while a suicide car bomber struck an army patrol east of Baghdad, killing eight, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said. Four people also were wounded in..
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CNN
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Nigerian gunmen have released a British toddler who was kidnapped in the country's oil-rich south, a regional official said Sunday. Margaret Hill, 3, has been reunited with her parents, state government spokesman Emmanuel Okah said.
"She looks well and..
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USA Today
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Israeli army incursions into the Gaza Strip killed at least 10 Palestinians on Wednesday, including eight gunmen and a 12-year-old boy, in the bloodiest fighting Gaza has seen since Hamas took control there two weeks ago.
ON DEADLINE: Read local media..
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FOX News
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Gunmen fired on people praying in a mosque in eastern Afghanistan, killing three, and Taliban militants overran another district in southern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday.
Assailants also ambushed a U.N. convoy on the main Kabul-Kandahar highwa..
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BBC News
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Fatah gunmen have stormed the Hamas-controlled Palestinian parliament building in Ramallah in the West Bank.
The gunmen reportedly tried to seize the Palestinian Legislative Council's second deputy speaker, Hassan Khuraishah, but staff intervened.
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USA Today
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Hamas gunmen overran the headquarters of a Fatah-allied security force in northern Gaza, killing at least 17 in a key victory in what is rapidly developing into a full-fledged civil war.
Battles over security positions spread to central Gaza in the pre..
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FOX News
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Hamas gunmen attacked the headquarters of Fatah-allied forces in northern Gaza with mortars and grenades Tuesday and captured several smaller positions in what Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah alleged was a coup attempt by the Islamic militant..
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FOX News
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Gunmen fired at the house of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas early Monday and warring factions threw militants to their deaths from high-rise buildings, in a dangerous escalation of infighting in Gaza.
There were no reports of casual..
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