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CNN
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A missile strike in a remote part of Pakistan killed at least eight suspected militants and wounded three others Thursday, Pakistan's state media reported.
The strike happened in South Waziristan, a rugged mountainous region of Pakistan near its border..
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BBC News
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Some 20 people have been killed after militants launched attacks on two villages in central Iraq.
Two Iraqi soldiers and 10 members of a local anti-al-Qaeda militia died in the first clash near Baghdad.
The fighters, who wore Iraqi army fatigues and..
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USA Today
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Taliban militants were expected to release seven remaining South Korean hostages Thursday, bringing to an end a six-week drama that saw two captives executed by the kidnappers, a South Korean official said.
South Korean presidential spokesman Cheon Ho-..
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CNN
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Taliban militants released eight South Korean hostages in Afghanistan after more than a month of captivity. Earlier on Wednesday three women, identified as Ahn Hye-jin, 31, Lee Jung-ran, 33, and 34-year-old Han Ji-young, were handed over to representative..
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BBC News
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At least 22 people have been killed and five abducted in an attack by suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq militants north-east of Baghdad, Iraqi police said.
The militants fired mortars and rocket-propelled grenades at houses and a Sunni mosque in the town of K..
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MSNBC
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The U.S. military said Tuesday that no U.S. soldiers were known to be missing in Iraq after Iraqi militants claimed in a Web statement to have taken a soldier hostage and threatened to behead him.
“No units have reported anyone missing,” said Staff..
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BBC News
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The Philippine government is deploying extra troops to the south after some of the bloodiest clashes with militants left more than 50 people dead.
The military said it had lost 26 soldiers and killed around 31 militants in three days of fighting on the..
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USA Today
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A U.S.-led raid and airstrike targeting networks allegedly smuggling weapons and fighters from Iran killed 32 suspected militants Wednesday in Baghdad's Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, the military said.
The raids came as Iraqi authorities clamped a th..
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USA Today
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A purported Taliban spokesman on Tuesday said a meeting between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and President Bush had "no result" and that militants' demands must be met if 21 South Korean hostages are to be safely released.
The spokesman, Qari Yousef A..
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CNN
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Pakistan's armed forces killed at least 35 militants in North Waziristan on Monday, two days after President Bush said he was "troubled" by reports al Qaeda was gaining strength in Pakistani tribal areas. The deaths, in fighting that was still under way,..
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BBC News
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Pakistan's army says an operation to flush out militants from a mosque in Islamabad is in its final stages - 24 hours after troops stormed the complex.
Several loud explosions and gunfire were heard on Wednesday morning.
During heavy fighting on Tue..
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BBC News
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Seven children were killed in a US-led coalition air strike against a suspected al-Qaeda hideout in eastern Afghanistan, the coalition has said.
A statement said that a number of militants were also killed in the raid in Paktika province near Pakistan...
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CNN
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Battered by days of fighting between Islamic militants and the Lebanese army, a steady stream of Palestinians has fled a refugee camp near Tripoli, Palestinian and Red Crescent officials said.
Fighting between the Fatah el-Islam group and Lebanese troo..
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SF Gate
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Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip fired a barrage of rockets and mortars into Israel Tuesday, declaring an end to a five-month cease-fire.
Hamas' military wing said the early-morning volley came in response to Israeli actions it said had in effect ende..
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BBC News
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Fifty-two people have been killed in fresh fighting between foreign militants and local tribesmen in Pakistan, the interior minister says.
Forty-five of the dead are foreign militants, thought to be of Uzbek origin, Aftab Khan Sherpao said.
The clas..
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SF Gate
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In January, when President Bush announced his plans to reinforce U.S. troops in Baghdad, Shiite militias were seen as the main worry. Instead, during the early weeks of the operation, deadly bombings by Sunni Arab militants have emerged as a greater dange..
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ABC News
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Militants struck back Sunday in their first major blow against a U.S.-led security clampdown in Baghdad with car bombings that killed at least 63 people, left scores injured and sent a grim message to officials boasting that extremist factions were on the..
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BBC News
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Hamas militants have fired a barrage of mortars from the Gaza Strip, killing one person in Israel and injuring two.
One shell struck a factory at the Nir Oz kibbutz, which abuts the Gaza Strip.
Militants in Gaza regularly fire rockets at southern Is..
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MSNBC
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American and Iraqi troops killed 38 militants in the fiercest clashes with militants in weeks in Baghdad, including 22 who attacked a military checkpoint in a Shiite militia stronghold, the U.S. military said Monday.
Suspected Shiite extremists, appare..
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MSNBC
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The attack was one of the deadliest in Iraq for months and underscored the ability of militants to wreak havoc despite overall falls in violence that has prompted the U.S. to start withdrawing troops.
The blast was the latest this week to break a perio..
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