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  Gunmen at Libyan luxury hotel take hostages; 3 guards dead

  World | January 27, 2015 16:59 IST

  Tripoli, Libya: A Libyan security official says gunmen have stormed a luxury Libyan hotel popular with foreigners and have taken hostages after killing at least three guards.Essam Al-Naas, a spokesman for a Tripoli security agency,

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  Video of Paris gunman raises questions of affiliations

  World | January 12, 2015 8:14 IST

  Paris:  Two days after his death, a video emerged Sunday of one of the Paris gunmen pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group, while his two fellow militants have claimed to be from al-Qaida—a fiercely

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  Gunmen kill 3 Sunni clerics in Iraqi city of Basra

  World | January 02, 2015 15:06 IST

  Baghdad: Gunmen killed three Sunni clerics near the mostly Shiite city of Basra in southern Iraq, a government spokesman said Friday, an apparent sectarian attack that drew immediate calls for calm.Interior Ministry spokesman Saad Maan

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  2 gunmen open fire on Los Angeles police car

  World | December 30, 2014 8:37 IST

  Los Angeles:Two men opened fire on a police car patrolling a tough part of Los Angeles, but the two officers inside were not injured and one was able to shoot back, authorities said Monday. One

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  Video shows Boko Haram killing captives

  World | December 21, 2014 18:36 IST

  Maiduguri, Nigeria :A new video from Nigeria's home-grown Boko Haram extremists shows gunmen mowing down civilians lying face down in a dorm, and a leader saying they are being killed because they are “infidels” or

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  Al-Qaida gunmen overrun major Yemen military base

  World | September 30, 2013 23:31 IST

  Sanaa, Yemen: Suspected al-Qaida gunmen dressed in fatigues and riding in military trucks overran a key army base in eastern Yemen on Monday, security officials said, holding captive high-ranking officers and soldiers inside in the

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  Gunmen kill nine near Mexican border city

  World | September 24, 2013 7:34 IST

  Mexico City : Gunmen killed nine people, including a girl, at a house on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, a border city in northern Mexico, officials said Monday.The attack occurred around 10 p.m. Sunday while

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  Kenya mall hostage crisis: Gunmen hurl grenades

  World | September 23, 2013 11:36 IST

  Nairobi: Al Qaeda-linked Somali gunmen early Monday hurled grenades from inside Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall at security forces trying to rescue the remaining hostages, an eyewitness told Xinhua.The witness said nobody was injured in the

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  Kenya mall attack: Day 4, gunfire continues, third Indian killed, toll 62

  World | September 24, 2013 15:40 IST

  Nairobi: Sporadic gunfire could be heard from the Westgate mall in Nairobi on Tuesday morning as government forces pressed on to try to end a four day standoff with militants that killed 62 people.Kenyan special

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  Al-Qaida gunmen seize town in northern Syria

  World | September 19, 2013 22:07 IST

  Damascus: Al-Qaida militants in northern Syria captured a town near the Turkish border Thursday following heavy clashes with Western-backed rebels, prompting the closure of a nearby frontier crossing, activists and Turkish officials said. It was

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  Iraq: Gunmen kill 8 anti-al-Qaida Sunni fighters

  World | July 01, 2013 15:42 IST

  Baghdad, July 1: Iraqi officials said Monday that eight pro-government, anti-al-Qaida Sunni militiamen were kidnapped and killed by gunmen north of the capital, Baghdad, the latest in a series of bold insurgent attacks to hit

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  Gunmen kidnap Czech tourists in Balochistan

  World | March 14, 2013 14:37 IST

  Quetta, Mar 14: Gunmen abducted two female Czech tourists and their police guard as they were traveling on a bus through a troubled province in southwest Pakistan, the Czech foreign ministry and a Pakistani government

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  Gunmen kill two more polio workers in Pakistan

  World | December 19, 2012 14:18 IST

  Islamabad, Dec 19:  Gunmen staged fresh attacks on UN-backed polio vaccination teams in Pakistan, killing two more polio workers and wounding six in the country's northwest today, a day after six health workers were gunned

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  Gunmen kill govt official, 2 policemen in southwest Pakistan

  World | December 17, 2012 13:35 IST

  Islamabad, Dec 17: A senior government official and two policemen were killed in two separate shootings at Quetta city in southwest Pakistan today, officials said.  Khadim Hussain, Deputy Director of the Public Relations Department, was

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  Gunmen kill at least 20 worshippers inside Nigerian mosque

  World | October 14, 2012 20:28 IST

  Abuja, Oct 14: At least 20 people were killed as gunmen opened fire on Muslim worshippers coming out of a mosque in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state today.The attack happened in a remote village called Dogo

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  Gunmen kill eight in Pakistan

  World | June 23, 2012 19:42 IST

  Karachi, Jun 23: Motorcycle-borne gunmen today shot dead eight people at a laundry shop in a bustling commercial area of the restive southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, highlighting the growing lawlessness in the Baluchistan province.Initial

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  MPs Join Securitymen To Fight Taliban Militants

  World | April 18, 2012 10:03 IST

  Kabul, April 15: Unfazed by the brazen attempt by heavily-armed Taliban gunmen to storm Parliament today, MPs were not found wanting and they joined security forces in firing on the militants.Parliament was in session when

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  Suspected Militants Kill 7 In Pak's Balochistan Province

  World | March 29, 2012 13:57 IST

  Islamabad, Mar 29: Suspected militants today shot dead five members of the minority Shia community and two employees of a UN agency in two separate attacks in the restive Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan.  Suspected

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  Gunmen Attack Polling Stations In South Yemen

  World | February 20, 2012 22:12 IST

  Sanaa, Feb 20: Gunmen attacked two polling stations and killed one soldier in Yemen's restive south Monday, one day before the country is to go to the polls to rubber stamp its vice president as

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  Gunmen Assassinate Army General In Damascus

  World | February 11, 2012 22:57 IST

  Beirut, Feb 11: Gunmen assassinated an army general in Damascus on Saturday in the first killing of a high ranking military officer in the Syrian capital since the uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime began