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Car bombs kill 8 in Dagestan

Agencia EFEMay 20, 2013 09:46

Moscow, May 20 (EFE).- At least eight people were killed when two car bombs exploded Monday in Makhachkala, the capital of the Russian federal republic of Dagestan, officials said. "Two car bombs exploded within minutes. According to preliminary figures, at least eight people died. The number of wounded is not known," a government spokesman told the Interfax news agency. The car bombs were detonated next to a police building, the spokesman said.

Two suspected militants killed in Yemen drone strike

Thomson ReutersMay 20, 2013 07:31

SANAA (Reuters) - Two suspected al Qaeda militants were killed on Monday in a drone strike on their vehicle south of the capital Sanaa, tribal and government sources said. The strike follows another on Saturday in which at least four militants were killed in Abyan governorate, in southern Yemen. A Yemeni official did not say who was behind the attack, but previous strikes have been carried out by the United States.

Salafists in Tunis for banned meet clash with police

Agence France-PresseMay 19, 2013 16:32

Clashes broke out between radical Islamists and police on Sunday after Salafist movement Ansar al-Sharia told its followers to gather "in large numbers" near Tunis for its annual congress, defying a government ban. Hundreds of Salafists erected barricades in the streets of Ettadhamen, a poor neighbourhood 15 kilometres (9 miles) west of Tunis, and hurled rocks at police who responded with tear gas, an AFP journalist reported.

Drone strikes kills 'Qaeda militants' in Yemen

Agence France-PresseMay 18, 2013 13:47

An apparent US drone attack has killed four suspected Al-Qaeda militants in southern Yemen and destroyed an explosives-packed truck, tribal sources said on Saturday. They occurred on Friday night in Al-Mahfad region in Abyan province, the sources said. The truck was carrying grenades and explosive belts, and the attack destroyed the weapons and killed the vehicle's four occupants, "members of Al-Qaeda," one of the sources said. A local dignitary confirmed to AFP that four people were killed but was unable to say whether they were Islamist militants.

Syria jihadists executed regime supporters

Agence France-PresseMay 16, 2013 05:15

A video distributed Thursday by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights shows jihadists in the east of the country executing supporters of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. The Britain-based watchdog did not specify whether the men killed were combatants, nor did it say when the footage was shot. The men killed by Al-Nusra Front, a jihadist organisation operating in Syria that the United States has classed as "terrorist" "are supporters of the Assad regime, but we cannot know whether they were regime troops", watchdog director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.

Car bombs kill 9, wound 65 in Iraq's capital

Agencia EFEMay 15, 2013 19:00

Baghdad, May 15 (EFE).- At least 9 people died and 65 others were wounded Wednesday by six car-bombs in Baghdad, most of them exploding in predominately Shiite districts, an Iraqi police spokesman told Efe. The first car-bomb blew up in Khadimiyah, in the northern part of the Iraqi capital, killing two people and wounding nine. Khadimiyah is the target of frequent bomb attacks against the Shiite community living in that neighborhood.

Attacks kill 10 in Iraq

Agencia EFEMay 15, 2013 16:30

Baghdad, May 15 (EFE).- At least 10 people died and 13 others were wounded in two car-bomb attacks on government buildings Wednesday in Kirkuk, a city 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, an Iraqi police spokesman told Efe. The deadlier attack was staged near the financial control department building in Al Khadra, a neighborhood in the southwestern part of the city. The bomb killed six people, wounded eight and caused extensive damage both to the government building and nearby structures.

Iraq bombings kill 29 people

Agence France-PresseMay 15, 2013 14:25

Bombings in Iraq, including a series of blasts mainly targeting Shiite areas of Baghdad, killed at least 29 people and wounded 70 on Wednesday, security and medical officials said. Car bombs hit Kadhimiyah and Sadr City in north Baghdad, Saidiyah in the south and Mashtal and Baghdad Jadida in the east, killing at least 14 people and wounding at least 47, while a roadside bomb in the Zafraniyah area killed two police, officials said. AFP journalists heard the sound of explosions in central Baghdad, and saw a number of ambulances on the street.

Egypt 'foils Qaeda-linked plot against Western embassy'

Agence France-PresseMay 13, 2013 11:04

Egypt's interior minister said on Saturday police arrested three members of an Al-Qaeda-linked cell in an alleged transnational plot to bomb a Western embassy and other targets in the country. The suspects were arrested with explosives intended to be used to bomb a Western embassy after an investigation showed threads in Pakistan, Iran and Algeria, Mohamed Ibrahim said at a news conference. Police "have delivered a successful blow against a terror cell plotting suicide bomb attacks," said the interior minister.

Egypt says thwarts suicide attack on foreign embassy

Thomson ReutersMay 12, 2013 09:15

By Tom Perry and Yasmine Saleh CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces thwarted an al Qaeda-linked group's plan to carry out a suicide attack on a foreign embassy and captured several militants, the interior minister said on Saturday. Mohamed Ibrahim, speaking in a televised news conference, declined to say which embassy had been targeted. He named three suspected members of the cell now under arrest.