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  • Nigeria rebels claim attacks, announce "hurricane"

    Nigeria's main armed group MEND announced early Thursday it had carried out two attacks on the army and again advised oil groups operating in the southern Niger Delta to evacuate their staff before the "arrival of an imminent hurricane." The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta had said in a statement Wednesday: "Oil companies.. More

  • Sri Lanka war hospital 'hit again'

    At least 35 people have been killed in an attack on a hospital in Sri Lanka's northern war zone, a doctor has told Al Jazeera. The shelling on Wednesday came less than 24 hours after at least 49 people died in an attack on the same hospital, the last remaining inside the conflict zone, according to a doctor working there. A local worker for the Internationa.. More

  • Taliban bombs US base near Khost

    At least seven people have been killed and many others injured when a suicide bomber detonated a car filled with explosives outside a US base in eastern Afghanistan, the US military said. A Taliban spokesman told Al Jazeera on Wednesday that the group had attacked Camp Salerno, 4km outside Khost. "Twenty-one local nationals were wounded and.. More

  • Thousands flee Mogadishu, death toll hits 113

    Thousands of residents fled bomb-blasted north Mogadishu on Tuesday where the worst fighting in months between opposition fighters and the government has killed at least 113 civilians, according to a rights group. Al Shabaab fighters and the government have been battling for control of the capital and south Somalia, where 18 years of war has destabilized.. More

  • Taliban raids Afghan state offices

    About 30 fighters wearing suicide vests and using AK-47s and grenades, have attacked government buildings in the Afghan city of Khost, the Taliban says. Battles on Tuesday are ongoing and all roads in and out of the city in the southeastern Khost province are closed. Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr, in the capital, Kabul, said that a Taliban spokesman had.. More

  • OIC calls for US action against Israel's demolitions in Jerusalem

    OIC's Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week, a statement from the organization said on Monday. Ihsanoglu said in his letter that Israel's forcing Palestinians to leave their houses in Jerusalem, demolishing the evacuated buildings and locating Jewish families to the vacant lands was.. More

  • Five U.S. soldiers killed in Baghdad

    Five U.S. soldiers were killed in a shooting incident at a U.S. base in Baghdad on Monday, the U.S. military said. The soldiers were killed at about 2 p.m. (1100 GMT) at "Camp Liberty" a U.S. military facility near Baghdad International airport, a military statement said. The statement did not provide further details about the incident but.. More

  • Demonstrators protest against anti-Islam rally in Cologne, Germany

    Police in Cologne say about 1,600 people have protested peacefully against racism and a controversial "anti-Islam" rally held by right-wing groups that oppose the building of a large new mosque in the city. Hundreds of left-wingers and members of church groups, trade unions and the Green party held a demonstration in Cologne to counter an.. More

  • Pakistan steps up Taliban offensive

    Pakistani army troops have entered Taliban-held areas in the northwest of the country, hours after thousands of people were ordered to evacuate the area. Major-General Athar Abbas told Al Jazeera that ground forces had gone in on Sunday after fighter aircraft bombed suspected Taliban positions. "It has already started from the two directions.. More

  • 'Hundreds dead' in Sri Lanka attack

    The Sri Lankan military and Tamil Tiger rebels have blamed each other for an artillery attack in the country's northeastern conflict zone that reportedly killed more than 370 civilians. Dr V Shanmugarajah, a government physician working in a makeshift hospital in the conflict zone, said he had counted the bodies of 378 civilians after an all-night.. More

  • Mass evacuation ordered in Swat

    Tens of thousands of people have been ordered to leave Swat valley by Pakistan's military as it battles Taliban fighters in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP). The military lifted a curfew in the Swat region for seven hours on Sunday to allow trapped civilians to get out. Kamal Hyder, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Peshawar, the capital of the.. More

  • Zuma sworn in as S Africa president

    Jacob Zuma has been sworn in as South Africa's fourth president since the end of apartheid. Zuma, took the oath of office at a ceremony in Pretoria on Saturday, promising "a society in which all people are free from decimation, exploitation and want". He vowed to uphold the tradition of reconciliation begun by Nelson Mandela, one of his.. More

  • Chad claims victory over rebels

    Chad has declared victory after two days of fighting Sudanese based rebels in the east of the country. "It is a decisive victory," Adoum Younousmi, Chad's defense minister, said on Saturday. The Chadian government says at least 225 rebels and 22 soldiers were killed in two days of clashes on Thursday and Friday south of the main eastern.. More

  • Pakistan army battles Swat Taliban

    The Pakistani military says that it has killed more than 80 fighters in heavy fighting against several thousand Taliban loyalists in the country's northwest. As the fighting raged, tens of thousands of residents fled the Swat valley area of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP). The army launched its major offensive on Wednesday, with reports of.. More

  • Five Palestinians injured in two Israeli air strikes in Rafah

    Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Wednesday at night that five Palestinians were injured in two consecutive air strikes carried by the Israeli Air Force against the “Tunnels Area” on the border line between Rafah and the Egypt. The sources stated that the five residents were moved to Abu Yousef Al Najjar Hospital,.. More