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UK role in India Golden Temple assault 'very limited': probe
Feb 04, 2014 (AFP)
British military advice had a "very limited" impact on India's 1984 Amritsar Golden Temple assault that left 500 dead, a government investigation found on Tuesd...
Probe Franco-era crimes, UN expert urges Spain
Feb 03, 2014 (AFP)
A UN expert on Monday urged Spain to break a decades-long taboo by investigating atrocities allegedly committed in its 1936-39 civil war and the Franco dictator...
Philippines to hunt hardline rebels after capturing camps
Feb 02, 2014 (AFP)
Philippine military officials on Sunday vowed to hunt down remaining splinter groups of hardline Muslim rebels after capturing their main camps in a week-long o...
Bangladesh court sentences top Islamist to death for arms smuggling
Jan 30, 2014 (AFP)
A Bangladesh court on Thursday sentenced 14 people to death, including the leader of the country's largest Islamist party, over a massive arms smuggling racket ...
US renews offer to help Russia with security at Olympics
Jan 29, 2014 (AFP)
The US military has renewed an offer to help Russia with security at next month's Olympic games in Sochi, the Pentagon said Wednesday. But Moscow has given no i...
Spain bill seeks to curb trials of foreign atrocities
Jan 28, 2014 (AFP)
Lawmakers in Spain are moving to stop the country's courts from probing certain atrocities allegedly committed overseas, officials said Tuesday, after a lawsuit...
Qaeda attacks kill 10 soldiers in Yemen: army
Jan 16, 2014 (AFP)
Al-Qaeda militants killed 10 Yemeni soldiers in three simultaneous attacks Thursday on army positions in the central province of Bayda, a military official said...
UK probes role in India's Golden Temple assault plans
Jan 14, 2014 (AFP)
Britain said Tuesday it would investigate its involvement in India's 1984 Amritsar Golden Temple assault after previously top secret documents showed British el...
Algerian jihadist remains serious threat: US general
Jan 09, 2014 (AFP)
The elusive jihadist who staged a deadly siege of an Algerian gas plant a year ago, Moktar Belmokhtar, has the means to stage a similar attack, a top US general...
Boko Haram sustains 'heavy casualties': Nigerian army
Jan 09, 2014 (AFP)
Nigeria's military on Thursday said they had killed as many as 38 Boko Haram fighters during counter-insurgency operations in the country's northeast. Army spok...
Chile ex-officers detained for 1973 disappearance of French ex-priest
Jan 07, 2014 (AFP)
A judge in Chile ordered the arrest Tuesday of nine former military officers accused in the disappearance of a French former priest during the Augusto Pinochet ...
US ready to aid Russia on Olympic security: Pentagon
Jan 04, 2014 (AFP)
The United States is ready to help Russia's security operation for the Winter Olympics, the Pentagon said Saturday, after twin suicide bombings sparked concern ...
Last Uighurs freed from Guantanamo arrive in Slovakia
Dec 31, 2013 (AFP)
The last three Uighurs who had languished in the US prison at Guantanamo Bay for over a decade without charge have been freed and sent to Slovakia, officials sa...
Wanted leader of Qaeda-linked group had been held in Iraq
Dec 29, 2013 (AFP)
One of the most wanted leaders of an Al-Qaeda-linked group operating in Iraq and Syria had been held in detention for five years but was released in 2010, an Ir...
NATO chief condemns terrorist attack in Russia
Dec 29, 2013 (AFP)
NATO's secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen condemned the suicide attack Saturday at Russia's Volgograd railway station that left 14 people dead and vowed to...
Libya briefly holds four US military personnel
Dec 28, 2013 (AFP)
Four US military personnel have been freed after a brief detention by the Libyan government, the US State Department said Saturday. State Department spokeswoman...
German police build 'Nazi Shazam' to track banned music
Dec 12, 2013 (AFP)
German police are touting a new high-tech tool to identify illegal neo-Nazi songs in seconds, dubbed "Nazi Shazam" after popular music identification software. ...
'Close Guantanamo' says US general who opened camp
Dec 12, 2013 (AFP)
The general who opened the US military's Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba when its first detainees arrived in 2002 on Thursday called for the facility to be closed. ...
German state vows to block reprints of Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'
Dec 11, 2013 (AFP)
Germany's Bavaria state has pledged to maintain an effective post-war ban on Adolf Hitler's manifesto "Mein Kampf", sparking a dispute over academic freedom. Si...
Al-Qaida stakes out 'jihadist emirate' in Iraq, Syria
Dec 10, 2013 (UPI)
As al-Qaida in Iraq and Syria gain in strength and firepower, they're shifting from hit-and-run tactics to seizing and holding adjoining territory in western Ir...
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