Tag: Clashes

At least 30 miscreants were killed in recent clashes between security forces and militants in Nusrat Dra town of Lower Dir, according to a...

A sense of calm returned to Yemen's embattled capital on Sunday hours after armed tribesman and President Ali Abdullah Saleh's forces reached a truce...

Demonstrators began to flee a square in Yemen’s capital Wednesday as security forces attacked pro-opposition troops led by dissident General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar who...

At least nine people were killed and several others injured in an exchange of fire between tribesmen from rival sectarian groups in Kurram Agency....

The death toll from clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Egyptian capital Cairo rose to 12, state television said on Sunday, as the...

The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Saturday was shut down indefinitely following violent clashes between two rival groups of students that left 12 of...

AMMAN - Jordanian security forces have arrested 70 Islamists after violent protests in which many people were hurt, most of them policemen, a security official told AFP on Saturday. The suspects, members of the ultra-conservative Sunni Muslim Salafist movement, were rounded up during raids Friday in the town of Zarqa and nearby Rassifeh, hours after Islamist protesters attacked police, the official said. Initially 120 people were detained but 50 of them were later let go while 70 were

MAKHACHKALA - At least three policemen and 3 suspected Islamist militants were killed in clashes in Russia's North Caucasus on Monday, media reported, underlining the Kremlin's struggle to contain violence there.
A decade after Russian federal forces drove separatists out of power in Chechnya, almost daily violence plagues the mainly Muslim North Caucasus where rebels want to establish an Islamic state under strict sharia law. "The police returned fire at a group of militants,

PESHAWAR - At least four security personnel were killed and eight others injured in an attack by militants in Waleed Koroona area of Mohmand Agency's Baezai tehsil on Thursday, while the forces killed at least 25 Taliban in attacks on various hideouts.
Reports said a large number of militants attacked a Frontier Corps checkpost in Baezai. Officials in Mohmand administration claimed that 10 militants were killed and five injured in retaliatory action. Meanwhile, Mohmand

JUBA - About 34,000 southern Sudanese have fled their homes after tribal clashes over land, water and cattle in recent weeks, a UN humanitarian official said, adding to southern troubles before independence in July.
The oil-rich south voted overwhelmingly to separate from the north in a January referendum, promised as part of a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war in Sudan. At least two million died in the war, which destabilised much of the region.
The euphoria

THE REALITY CHECK - The Broader Perspective: The mother of all battles, the final before the final, a blockbuster, a sub-continental party, a made-for-television encounter... call it whatever you like. It's a massive clash under any circumstances but, in the context of a World Cup semi-final in Mohali, the coming together of India and Pakistan is one of colossal and monumental proportions.
Pakistan haven't played in India since 2007 and the build up to today's game is massive. It's

ADEN - Central government forces in Yemen fought Islamist militants on Sunday after the militants seized control of parts of a south Yemen town, residents said. The militants forced the army to retreat from a hill overlooking the town of Jaar, taking over a state broadcast building and a rest house used by President Ali Abdullah Saleh on visits to the region.
The militants seized two tanks and one soldier was killed, the sources said. The army shelled key government buildings

TRIPOLI - Fighting raged between forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi and insurgents in several towns on Tuesday despite a UN-mandated no-fly zone aimed at stopping the violence.
Meanwhile, as a senior US officer said Gaddafi forces were still attacking civilians, doubts persisted over the best way to continue the campaign to stop Gaddafi, and where it was leading. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said future actions of the coalition, which began airstrikes on Saturday

SANAA - At least 150 people were wounded as Yemeni security forces tried to break up a rally in the Red Sea city of Hudaida demanding an end to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's rule, a doctor and witnesses said on Wednesday.
The impoverished Arabian Peninsula state, neighbour to oil giant Saudi Arabia, has been hit by weeks of protests trying to shake loose Saleh's 32-year grip on power. Both pro and anti-government factions appear to have increasingly resorted to violence in the

KHARTOUM - Clashes between the southern army and a rebel militia group in south Sudan's Upper Nile state have left more than 40 people dead, including seven soldiers, southern army spokesman Philip Aguer said on Monday. "There was fighting on Sunday between the SPLA and a former militia group under Ulony, a militia commander who had been in the service of Khartoum for a long time," the spokesman for the Sudan People's Liberation Army told AFP.
The militiamen attacked a group of

TRIPOLI - Muammar Gaddafi's forces battled rebels on several fronts in Libya on Friday and unrest erupted in the capital when gunmen fired to break up crowds shouting "Gaddafi is the enemy of God" while 17 protesters were killed in Benghazi.
Vowing "victory or death", eastern-based rebels pressed home a westwards push with an attack on the oil town of Ras Lanuf, which lies on a strategic coastal road, claiming to have taken its airport. In the west, security forces loyal to

JUBA - Renegade militia fighters clashed with south Sudan's army for a second time in three weeks, both sides said, reigniting fears for the stability of the oil-producing region in the countdown to its independence. Rebel leader George Athor told Reuters just short of 100 people died in the latest fighting on Sunday in the south's Jonglei state - where France's Total oil giant is due to start exploring.
The south's army said fighting continued on Monday but added Athor's death