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FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2012 file photo, Afghan security guards stand at the scene as the remnants of a tire burn during an anti-U.S. demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan. Two U.S. troops were gunned down by two Afghan soldiers and an accomplice Thursday, March 1, 2012, the latest of six American service members killed by their Afghan partners since the burning of Muslim holy books at a U.S. base last week sent anti-Americanism soaring in a nation that has long distrusted foreigners. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid, File)

Two more Americans killed by Afghan gunman

Last updated Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 12:44pm

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Two American soldiers were killed Thursday by a civilian employee of the Afghan army, according to Afghan officials -- the latest in a concerted series of attacks in which Afghan soldiers, police or government workers have turned their guns on Western allies.

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Multiple bomb blasts hit Nigerian city

Robyn Dixon Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, January 20, 2012 - 2:42pm

JOHANNESBURG -- Nigeria's troubled north, already plagued by a rash of terrorist bombings and drive-by killings during the last year, faced a new attack Friday: multiple bombings in Kano, the region's largest city. Fighting between gunmen and security forces was also reported.

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Foreigners kidnapped, German killed in Timbuktu

Baba Ahmed The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, November 26, 2011 - 11:26am

BAMAKO, Mali -- Gunmen killed a German man in Mali's most famous city of Timbuktu and seized three men from the Netherlands, South Africa and Sweden, officials and witnesses said, as officials on Saturday ordered a plane to evacuate foreigners from the tourist destination.

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(ARSHAD BUTT/The Associated Press) Pakistanis mourn over the death of their relative killed in a firing incident, at a local hospital in Quetta, Pakistan on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011. Suspected Sunni extremists opened fire on Shiite Muslims traveling through southwestern Pakistan, killing scores of people and wounding six others in the latest apparent sectarian attack to plague the country, police said.

Gunmen kill 13 Shiite Muslims in Pakistan

Abdul Sattar The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 7:56am

QUETTA, Pakistan — Suspected Sunni extremists shot to death 13 Shiite Muslims execution-style after ordering them off a bus and lining them up Tuesday in southwestern Pakistan, ramping up a campaign of sectarian violence that has exposed Islamabad’s inability to protect minorities.

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(MUSADEQ SADEQ/The Associated Press) An Afghan soldier takes position under a huge poster of Afghan President Hamid Karzai with his late brother Ahmad Wali Karzai, during a gun battle with militants in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. Taliban insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of the Afghan capital Tuesday in a brazen attack two days after the United States marked the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

Building used by CIA attacked in Afghan capital

Deb Riechmann The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 4:55pm

KABUL, Afghanistan — A building used by the CIA in Kabul came under attack Sunday, U.S. and Afghan officials said, the latest in a series of attacks in the Afghan capital.

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People carry the body of a shooting victim to an ambulance in Mastung near Quetta, Pakistan on Tuesday, Sept 20, 2011. Gunmen opened fire on minority Shiite Muslim pilgrims traveling through southwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 26 people in an apparent sectarian attack, officials and survivors said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Gunmen kill 20 Shiite Muslim pilgrims in Pakistan

Contributed Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 10:44am

ISLAMABAD — A government official says gunmen have attacked a bus carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims in southwest Pakistan, killing 20 of them.

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(MOHAMMAD SAJJAD/The Associated Press) A Pakistani child who was injured in an attack is treated at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan on Tuesday, Sept 13, 2011. Gunmen attacked a school van in northwestern Pakistan killing three children, the driver and police said.

Gunmen attack school van in Pakistan; 5 dead

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Last updated Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 9:06am

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Gunmen attacked a school van in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing three children, a teacher and the driver, police said.

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Pakistani police officers surround a car of Shahbaz Taseer, who was kidnapped from Lahore, Pakistan Friday, Aug 26, 2011. Gunmen abducted the son of a liberal Pakistani politician who was murdered by an Islamist extremist earlier this year, police said Friday. The victim's brother said he suspected extremists were behind the kidnapping. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)

Pakistani gunmen kidnap son of slain governor

Alex Rodriguez Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, August 26, 2011 - 10:05am

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Gunmen on Friday kidnapped the son of Salman Taseer, the liberal provincial governor assassinated by one of his bodyguards earlier this year in retaliation for Taseer's opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy law.

The abduction of Shahbaz Taseer in the eastern city of Lahore raised concerns that Islamic extremists were intent on targeting members of the Taseer family, some of whom have continued to speak out against intolerance in Pakistani society after the governor's slaying Jan. 4.

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An Afghan policeman, center, stand with two members of the Afghan Public Protection Force during the funeral ceremony for the members of a wedding party who were killed by gunmen in Dur Baba district of Nangarhar province east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, June 9, 2011. Gunmen opened fire on the wedding party late Wednesday night in eastern Afghanistan, killing nine people, including the groom, officials said Thursday.(AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Gunmen attack Afghan wedding party, killing 9

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 10:34am

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Gunmen opened fire on a wedding party in eastern Afghanistan, killing nine people, including the groom, officials said Thursday.

The assailants entered a field where the groom and his family had gathered Wednesday night in the remote Dur Baba district and started shooting, said Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the provincial government spokesman. The attackers also set fire to a nearby house and a car.

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