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Leaker tried to join US special forces

Agence France-PresseJune 10, 2013 19:30
The young contractor behind leaks exposing America's surveillance programs tried but failed to join the US Army's elite special forces in 2004, officials said Monday. Edward Snowden, 29, has revealed himself as the source for sensational revelations in The Guardian and The Washington Post on how US spy agencies trawl through phone records and Internet traffic looking for possible terror threats. The government contractor served as a private first class in the US Army at Fort Benning, Georgia, said Colonel David Patterson, an Army spokesman at the Pentagon.

Taliban claim attack on Georgians in Afghanistan

Agence France-PresseJune 7, 2013 10:20
The Taliban on Friday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in southern Afghanistan that killed seven Georgians and wounded nine others. The head of the Georgian army announced the deaths on Thursday, saying the men died in a truck bombing outside a base in the restive province of Helmand. The Taliban, leading the 12-year insurgency against the government of President Hamid Karzai and NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (ISAF), claimed the attack on their "Voice of Jihad" website.

Taliban claim attack on Georgians in Afghanistan

Agence France-PresseJune 7, 2013 10:20
The Taliban on Friday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in southern Afghanistan that killed seven Georgians and wounded nine others. The head of the Georgian army announced the deaths on Thursday, saying the men died in a truck bombing outside a base in the restive province of Helmand. The Taliban, leading the 12-year insurgency against the government of President Hamid Karzai and NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (ISAF), claimed the attack on their "Voice of Jihad" website.

Niger residents fear spread of 'war on terror'

Agence France-PresseJune 5, 2013 14:38
People in Niger have begun to express fears of a "war on terror" in their homeland, after unprecedented suicide attacks in the north and a bloody jailbreak in the capital Niamey staged by armed Islamic extremists. "This terrorism that we heard about elsewhere has thus arrived here," Niamey taxi driver Moussa said, referring to the Islamist insurgency that divided neighbouring Mali early last year, prompting foreign armed intervention.

Russia says kills senior Islamist insurgent

May 21, 2013 04:16
By Alissa de Carbonnel MOSCOW (Reuters) - The right-hand man of Russia's most wanted insurgent was killed by security forces on Tuesday, officials said, as Moscow tries to contain militancy in its Caucasus region before it hosts the Winter Olympics near there next February. Dzhamaleil Mutaliyev, a senior figure in a group fighting to establish an Islamist state, was killed along with another militant in a shootout in the town of Nazran in Ingushetia, a spokesman for local investigators said.

Dagestan bombs kill three, two dead in shootout near Moscow

May 20, 2013 10:46
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - Two car bombs killed at least three people and wounded dozens of others on Monday in Dagestan, a turbulent province in Russia's North Caucasus region where armed groups are waging an Islamist insurgency. Car bombs, suicide bombings and firefights are common in Dagestan, at the center of an insurgency rooted in two post-Soviet wars against separatist rebels in neighboring Chechnya.

Football: Leading scorers in Italian Serie A

Agence France-PresseMay 19, 2013 18:45
Leading scorers in Italian Serie A after the final round of matches this weekend: 29: Cavani (Napoli) 23: Di Natale (Udinese) 16: El Shaarawy (AC Milan), Osvaldo (AS Roma) 15: Denis (Atalanta), Klose (Lazio), Lamela (AS Roma), Pazzini (AC Milan) 13: Bergessio (Catania), Gilardino (Bologne), Jovetic (Fiorentina) 12: Balotelli (AC Milan), Borriello (Genoa), Palacio (Inter Milan), Sau (Cagliari), Totti (AS Roma) 11: Bianchi (Torino), Hamsik (Napoli), Hernanes (Lazio), Ljajic (Fiorentina), Muriel (Udinese), Théreau (Chievo)

Ex-Islamist Somali warlord elected 'president' of key region

Agence France-PresseMay 15, 2013 18:00
Former Islamist warlord Ahmed Madobe has been elected "president" of Somalia's volatile southern Jubaland region following weeks of tense negotiations between rival factions, officials said Wednesday. The vote in the southern port city of Kismayo was opposed by the central government in the capital Mogadishu, which is keen to stamp its authority on the lawless and war-ravaged nation, not to see further regional splits. Madobe is also a key ally of Kenya, and his appointment risks opening a rift between Nairobi and Mogadishu.

Ex-Islamist Somali warlord elected 'president' of key region

Agence France-PresseMay 15, 2013 14:26
Former Islamist warlord Ahmed Madobe has been elected "president" of Somalia's volatile southern Jubaland region following weeks of tense negotiations between rival factions, officials said Wednesday. "Ahmed Madobe was elected by an overwhelming majority to be the president of Jubaland," said Abdi Nasser Serar, spokesman for the 500-strong conference of clan elders and local leaders who voted for a leader, a move opposed by the central government in the capital Mogadishu. amu-pjm/gd

Pakistani prisoner attacked in India jail dies

Agence France-PresseMay 10, 2013 11:50
A Pakistani prisoner who was savagely beaten in an Indian jail in an apparent tit-for-tat assault died on Thursday, prompting Islamabad to demand an international probe into the "heinous" crime. Doctors treating Sanaullah Ranjay at a government hospital in Chandigarh said the 52-year-old died of multiple organ failure after suffering severe head injuries in last week's attack at a prison in the northern city of Jammu.
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