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By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 30 May 2007 U.S. and Afghan forces in Eastern Afghanistan have killed at least six suspected insurgents. Violent attacks are on the rise throughout much of Afghanistan, including areas previously considered relatively secur
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 11 October 2006 Suspected militants who raided an oil facility in Nigeria's restive Niger Delta have released several of the 60 oil workers held since Tuesday. The attackers are believed to have issued a ransom demand. Offi
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 28 April 2007 Israeli forces have killed three Palestinian militants and seriously wounded a fourth in the Gaza Strip near the border with Israel. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, each side is accusing
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 21 April 2007 Palestinian assailants have bombed an American-run school in the Gaza Strip, but there were no casualties. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, there has been a breakdown of law and order in t
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 30 July 2006 Militant patrols creeks of the Niger Delta area of Nigeria (File photo) Militants who invaded an oil flow station in Southern Nigeria early last week are still holding oil workers and guards captive. The armed
By Margaret Besheer Beirut 29 May 2007 Sporadic gunfire during the day between Lebanese soldiers and Islamic militants in a Palestinian refugee camp ended in heavy clashes just before sunset near the northern port city of Tripoli. From the Lebanese c
By Ron Corben Bangkok 22 January 2006 Thai bomb squad officer defuses bombs found on the roadside in Narathiwat province, Nov. 25, 2005 Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand have adopted a new tactic
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 23 February 2006 The top U.N. official in Afghanistan has urged militants opposing the country's government to end their violent campaign against local schools and teachers.
By Nico Colombant Abidjan 18 February 2006 Nigerian militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta have launched a new wave of attacks, including the kidnapping of nine foreign oil workers. The militants are t
By Joe Bavier Abidjan 20 February 2006 Oil instalation belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company in Odidi Niger Delta Militants in Nigeria's volatile, but oil-rich, Niger Delta say they have st
By Jim Randle Baghdad 27 January 2007 The U.S. military now says some American soldiers were abducted and killed in a recent raid by insurgents wearing U.S.-style uniforms. The sophisticated attack hit a command post in the Iraqi city of Karbala a w
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is calling on Pakistan to intensify efforts to combat Taliban militants who use its border areas to launch attacks against Afghanistan. Speaking to reporters in the western Australian city of Perth Friday, Ri
A spokesman for Pakistan's army says 10 militants have been killed and five troops wounded during an operation aimed at re-taking control of an area in the country's northwest. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad on the clashes that began af
Eight Taliban militants have attacked three government buildings in Kabul, in a brazen daytime assault that killed at least 26 people and wounded dozens of others. One group of attackers barricaded themselves in the Afghan Justice ministry, holding
Pakistani Taliban militants in the country's troubled Swat valley say they are indefinitely extending a cease-fire with the government. Swat Taliban leader Maulana Fazlullah is expected to soon announce the terms of the cease-fire. Residents of Swat
Militants Storm British Council in Afghan Capital in Deadly Attack 英国驻阿富汗文化中心遇袭 Suicide bombers stormed Britain's cultural center in the Afghan capital Friday, triggering hours of fighting that killed at least nine people. 周五
Analysts Warn United Iraqi Effort Needed Against Islamic State Militants WASHINGTON While terrorism experts around the globe knew of the Islamic State militants in Syria - also known as ISIL or ISIS - they were taken aback at its rapid success in Ira
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 12 June 2007 Hostage takers in Nigeria's unruly oil-rich Niger Delta have released 13 captives as the new Nigerian administration prepares for peace talks with rebels responsible for the violence. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa i
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 03 July 2007 Pakistani security forces have exchanged gunfire with hundreds of students holed up inside a radical mosque in central Islamabad. Officials have confirmed six deaths, including security personnel and students,
The U.S. military says it launched an airstrike against a top al-Qaida linked terrorist in Libya wanted for a deadly 2013 attack on a gas plant in Algeria. Libya's internationally recognized government says the airstrike killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar Sat