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Mine blast badly wounds Tunisia national guards

Agence France-PresseApril 29, 2013 12:01
A land mine explosion seriously wounded two members of Tunisia's national guard on Monday as they pursued a group of armed Islamists near the Algerian border, the interior minister said. The men were "seriously wounded by the explosion of a mine while they were conducting a search operation at Mont Chaambi targeting terrorist elements on the run," the ministry said, employing a term it uses for Islamist militants.

Boston bombing suspect had links to slain Islamists

Agence France-PresseApril 29, 2013 09:45
One of the brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings had made links with two figures in the Islamist anti-Kremlin insurgency in the Northern Caucasus, both of whom were killed by Russian security forces, a security source said Monday. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who was himself killed during his capture by US authorities, was known to have been in contact with a Dagestan militant named Makhmud Nidal and also a militant of Canadian origin named William Plotnikov, a Russian security source in the Northern Caucasus told AFP.

Boston bombing brothers' father hospitalised, US trip delayed

Agence France-PresseApril 28, 2013 12:46
The father of two brothers accused of bombing the Boston Marathon has been hospitalised, preventing his departure for the United States, he said Sunday. Anzor Tsarnaev told Ria Novosti news agency he had left Makhachkala, capital of the Russian republic of Dagestan, for Moscow to catch a flight to the United States but had to be hospitalised due to a sudden rise in his blood pressure. "I am in hospital but not in Moscow," Tsarnaev said, refusing to say where he was. "Due to the illness I've decided to put off for the moment my journey to the United States."

Gunmen kill 10 Iraq security forces members

Agence France-PresseApril 27, 2013 05:00
Gunmen killed five army intelligence soldiers in two attacks west of Baghdad while others shot dead five anti-Qaeda militiamen north of the Iraqi capital on Saturday, police and doctors said. One group of soldiers were driving near the site of a long-running anti-government protest when they were stopped by gunmen. They shot one of the gunmen, wounding him, and clashes broke out in which four of the soldiers were killed and another wounded, a police lieutenant colonel and a doctor said.

Russia detains 140 in sweep at Muslim prayer room-reports

April 26, 2013 14:45
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian law enforcement officers detained 140 people at a Muslim prayer room in Moscow on Friday as part of a search for Islamist militants, Russian news agencies quoted Federal Security Service (FSB) officials as saying. FSB and Federal Migration Service officers took the detainees, including more than 30 foreigners, to police stations near the site in southern Moscow, state-run RIA cited the FSB's Moscow branch as saying.

Two militants shot dead in Russia's Dagestan

April 24, 2013 13:15
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Security officers shot dead two suspected militants in Russia's volatile North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, the epicentre of an Islamist insurgency, the National Anti-Terrorist Committee said on Wednesday. Moscow is struggling to quell the persistent attacks by Islamist militants more than a decade after it fought two separatist wars in the adjacent republic of Chechnya.

Boston terror suspect remains in serious condition, FBI says

Agencia EFEApril 21, 2013 18:48
Washington, Apr 21 (EFE).- Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the young man of Chechen origin who is one of the pair of brothers presumed to be behind the Boston Marathon bombings last week, remains in "serious condition," the FBI said Sunday. Tsarnaev has been receiving treatment at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital since he was captured alive, but wounded, last Friday night after an almost 24-hour police pursuit and a huge deployment of security forces throughout the locked-down Boston area.

Boston bombing suspect kept low profile in Dagestan

April 21, 2013 11:15
By Alissa de Carbonnel MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - If Tamerlan Tsarnaev was already plotting the Boston Marathon bombings when he stayed in this bustling Russian city at the heart of an Islamist insurgency last year, neighbours say he hid it well. The ethnic Chechen killed in a shootout with U.S. police last week spent at least a month last summer helping his father renovate his first-floor apartment next door to a dentistry in Makhachkala, a city in the Dagestan region on the Caspian Sea.

Czech Republic is not Chechnya, diplomat points out

April 20, 2013 13:45
By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) - Make no mistake: the Czech Republic is not Chechnya. That's a distinction the Czech ambassador to the United States wants to make crystal clear after news emerged that the two suspects in Boston Marathon bombing had Chechen origins. "The Czech Republic and Chechnya are two very different entities - the Czech Republic is a Central European country; Chechnya is a part of the Russian Federation," Petr Gandalovič, the Czech ambassador, wrote on the embassy's website on Friday.

Factbox - Major Chechen attacks in Russia

April 19, 2013 11:16
(Reuters) - The two brothers suspected of carrying out the bombing of the Boston Marathon have been identified as Chechens. The motives for the attack are not clear. Their home region in southern Russia has been the focus of two wars, in which Chechnya has sought to break away from Moscow, and a guerrilla conflict. Here is an overview of major attacks on Russian soil since the beginning of the first Chechen war in 1994:
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