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Amanda Lindhout and Australian photographer Nigel Brennan narrowly missed being shot or recaptured during the daring – and some are alleging foolhardy – nighttime rescue last week that freed them after 15 months of captivity in Somalia.
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — Three Spanish aid workers were kidnapped while delivering supplies to impoverished villages in the desert West African nation of Mauritania, their organization said Monday.
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — The long and intricate peace negotiations between the Libyan government and a radical Islamist group were nearly derailed by the sudden death in a Tripoli prison of a prominent Libyan Jihadist, Libyan sources revealed to CNN.
GORDON Brown blasted Pakistan over its failure to capture Osama Bin Laden.
KABUL: Afghan border police said Sunday they had killed 27 Taliban-linked insurgents and captured a fighter from Chechnya in a fierce battle backed by coalition air support that lasted several hours.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military could have captured or killed Osama bin Laden in 2001 if it had launched a concerted attack on his hideout in Afghanistan, according to a report prepared for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
KABUL – Three Ukrainians were killed when a helicopter operated by an international military contractor crashed in eastern Afghanistan.
Franz Josef Jung, Germany’s labour minister, has resigned from the country’s cabinet over a deadly bombing in Afghanistan, a day after the army chief stepped down.
DUBAI, Nov 26 (Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s wing in Yemen said it shot dead an abducted Yemeni security official, and issued a video showing him on Islamist websites on Thursday.
An Israeli air strike wounded four Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Friday.
