4th Attacks on Trucks Near Quetta, Pakistan
Gunmen on motorcycles sprayed small arms fire at a parked US/ NATO fuel convoy near Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan and a long time center for the Old Taliban of Mulla Omar around 6 am Wednesday...
View Article4th Attack on Trucks Near Quetta, Pakistan
Gunmen on motorcycles sprayed small arms fire at a parked US/ NATO fuel convoy near Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan and a long time center for the Old Taliban of Mulla Omar around 6 am Wednesday...
View Article80 Killed in Bombing, Military Strikes in Pakistan
On Saturday, a suicide bomber targeted a food aid center in Khar in Bajaur, one of Pakistan’s northwestern Federally Administered Tribal Areas, killing 43 and wounding 100. The development has...
View Article“The Gates of Hell Have Opened in Tripoli”
I am watching Aljazeera Arabic, which is calling people in Tripoli on the telephone and asking them what is going on in the capital. The replies are poignant in their raw emotion, bordering on...
View ArticleThe Gates of Hell Have Opened in Tripoli
I am watching Aljazeera Arabic, which is calling people in Tripoli on the telephone and asking them what is going on in the capital. The replies are poignant in their raw emotion, bordering on...
View ArticleThe Libyan conundrum: Don’t let him linger | The Economist [del.icio.us]
As reluctant as I am about intervention, this is a reasonable compromise: "But if the Libyan regime starts killing people in their thousands—and especially if it uses helicopter gunships or...
View ArticleWhy a No-Fly Zone won’t Work in Syria
Syrian troops fired into peaceful demonstrations in Hama and Homs on Friday. Repression of protests yesterday is estimated to have cost 40 lives. The BBC reports that some demonstrators are calling for...
View ArticleSyrian forces deploy tanks, helicopters
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets on Friday as more than 30 people were reportedly killed across Syria, while security forces deployed tanks and helicopter gunships against rebels. Go...
View ArticleSyria Spirals down
The news out of Syria is bad and worse. The regime is being accused of widespread torture, and it is having to fight the rebels on the doorstep of the capital. Human Rights Watch has mapped out the...
View ArticleViolence engulfs Syrian capital
Helicopter gunships on Tuesday strafed Damascus neighbourhoods and blasts shook another district hours after rebels announced the launch of a full-scale offensive on the capital, activists said. Go to...
View ArticleSyria uses helicopters to battle rebels in capital
Syrian government forces backed by helicopter gunships battled rebels in heavy clashes with rebels in Damascus, a clear escalation in the most serious fighting in the capital since the country's...
View ArticleSyrian Rebellion Enters new Stage with Aleppo, Border operations
On Saturday and Sunday, the Free Syrian Army launched attacks on government facilities and personnel in Aleppo, with fighting raging in several districts of the country’s largest city. Fighting raged...
View ArticleFeared regime forces assault Syrian capital
Feared forces led by President Bashar al-Assad's brother used helicopter gunships Sunday in a new assault on rebels in Damascus, activists said, as clashes also raged in Syria's second city Aleppo. Go...
View ArticleSyrian rebels survive regime onslaught in Aleppo
BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government launched an offensive Saturday to retake rebel-held neighborhoods in the nation's commercial hub of Aleppo, unleashing artillery, tanks and helicopter gunships...
View ArticleSyrian Rebels Survive Regime Onslaught in Aleppo – ABC News
ABC News Syrian Rebels Survive Regime Onslaught in AleppoABC NewsThe Syrian government launched an offensive Saturday to retake rebel-held neighborhoods in the nation's commercial hub of Aleppo,...
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