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  • Taliban attacks Afghan air base

    At least seven Taliban fighters have been killed and nine Nato troops wounded in an assault on Bagram air base in Afghanistan, Nato says. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying 20 bombers took part in the assault, which began overnight. Zabihullah Mujahid, the group's spokesman, told the AFP news agency: "Four suicide bombers.. More

  • Thai army enters protest camp

    Thai soldiers and armored carriers have punched through barricades and moved into the main encampment of anti-government protesters in Bangkok. Al Jazeera's Wayne Hay, reporting from inside the breached protest site on Wednesday, said the well organized and well armed troops moved quickly through the first kilometer of the protest site, towards the.. More

  • Deadly blast hits NATO troops in Afghanistan

    A suicide car bomb attack targeted NATO troops in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people near parliament in the deadliest strike on Kabul in more than a year. The Taliban, leading a nearly nine-year resistance against the West and US-led foreign troops, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying they had targeted "invading.. More

  • Thai talks fail to get breakthrough

    Violence has continued on the streets of the Thai capital after direct talks between the government and a protest leader failed to produce a ceasefire. Al Jazeera's Aela Callan, reporting from the capital Bangkok, said gunshots and some explosions could still be heard as clashes between anti-government protesters and government forces continued on.. More

  • Afghan passenger plane crashes

    A passenger plane carrying 42 people on an internal flight between Kunduz and Kabul has crashed in a mountainous area of northern Afghanistan. The Pamir Airways flight, which also had 38 passengers and five crew members on board, crashed in remote mountains between the two cities, officials said. The Russian made AN-24 aircraft took off from Kunduz.. More

  • Iran accepts nuclear-fuel swap deal

    Iran has signed an agreement brokered by Brazil to ship low-enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for nuclear fuel for its power plant, according to official media. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, signed the deal on Monday following a breakfast with his Brazilian counterpart and the Turkish prime minister. The move aims to ease Western.. More

  • Mogadishu hit by heavy shelling

    At least 13 people have been killed in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, after African Union forces exchanged mortar fire with fighters from the al-Shabab group. Members of the group, which is fighting to topple the UN-backed government, fired mortars at the parliament building on Sunday. Local police said that the artillery fire missed its intended target,.. More

  • Brazil president begins Iran visit

    Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president, is visiting Iran for a nuclear summit that may prove to be Tehran's last chance to avoid new UN sanctions. Lula said in Moscow before departing for Tehran that he was "optimistic" and hoped to be able to persuade Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, to reach an agreement with the.. More

  • Sudan army battles Darfur rebels

    Sudanese forces say they have seized control of a key rebel held area in the western Darfur region after killing more than 150 members of the Justice and Equality Movement (Jem). "We have liberated Jebel Moon from the Justice and Equality Movement," Al-Sawarmi Khaled, an army spokesman, said on Saturday. "We have detained 61 rebels.. More

  • 'Deadly attack' on Yemeni convoy

    At least two soldiers are said to have died and five others wounded after suspected separatist fighters reportedly ambushed the convoy of the Yemeni president in the Radfan district of southern Lahj province. According to sources, the cars of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the president, was shot at by gunmen on Saturday. But Saleh was not in the motorcade when.. More

  • Russia signs deals to sell Syria air defense systems

    Russia has signed deals to sell Syria warplanes, anti-tank weapons and air defense systems, a senior Russian arms trader said on Friday. Mikhail Dmitriyev, head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, said Russia would supply Syria with MiG-29 fighters, truck-mounted Pantsir short-range surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft artillery.. More

  • Blast hits Iraq football match

    Bombers have struck a football match in northern Iraq, leaving at least 25 people dead and many more wounded. The blast targeted a game taking place in the town of Tal Afar, around 60km west of the city of Mosul. A local police official said a car bomb exploded at about 6pm local time (1500GMT) near a crowd of spectators. As people fled the scene.. More

  • Disputed Nile agreement signed

    Four African countries have signed a new treaty on the equitable sharing of the Nile waters despite strong opposition from Egypt and Sudan who have the major share of the river waters. Rwanda, Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania - four of nine Nile Basin countries - signed the new framework on Friday while Kenya issued a support statement. Burundi and the.. More

  • Deadly clashes erupt in Bangkok

    Atleast three people have been killed and 45 others injured after clashes erupted in the Thai capital as security forces attempted to seal off an anti-government protest camp. Explosions and gunfire were heard in Bangkok's business district on Friday as the so-called red shirts battled with troops using tear gas and rubber bullets. The army said it.. More

  • Israeli settler 'kills Palestinian'

    A Palestinian teenager has been shot dead by an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank, witnesses and activists said. The settler opened fire after Palestinian youths threw stones at his car travelling along Route 60 in Mazra'a al-Sharqia, east of Ramallah. The Popular Struggle Co-ordination Committee activist group said that Aysar al-Zaben was.. More