The military wing of Hamas, the Islamic group, claimed responsibility for the attack — in which gunmen fired on a vehicle carrying two men and two women at a junction near the city of Hebron — and described it on its Arabic Web site as a “heroic operation.”
Archive for the ‘Violence’ Category
Killing of Israeli Settlers Rattles Leaders
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010Blast kills at least 15 in Pakistan mosque
Monday, August 23rd, 2010A blast inside a mosque in Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal region on the Afghan border killed at least 15 people on Monday, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
Turkey Accused of Using Chemical Weapons against PKK
Friday, August 13th, 2010
Turkish soldiers on patrol in a Kurdish area of southeastern Turkey: Did the Turkish military use chemical weapons against the PKK?
German experts have confirmed the authenticity of photographs that purport to show PKK fighters killed by chemical weapons. The evidence puts increasing pressure on the Turkish government, which has long been suspected of using such weapons against Kurdish rebels. German politicians are demanding an investigation.
Injuries, arrests after massive 70-person Metro brawl
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010At least four people were injured and three arrested late Friday night after a brawl in the Metro system involving as many as 70 people, a Metro spokeswoman said.
The brawl apparently began about 11 p.m. at the Gallery Place station and then continued in the L’Enfant Plaza station, according to Metro spokeswoman Cathy Asato.
Transit police were called to Gallery Place in Northwest Washington where a disorderly group was reported, she said. Then police were sent to the L’Enfant Plaza station two stops away in Southwest, where a fight was reported on the platform for Green and Yellow Line trains.
She said two persons under 18 were arrested along with one adult. Of the injured, she said two were juveniles and two were adults. One of the adults was reported early Saturday to be in serious condition. At one point, a spokesman for the D.C. fire and emergency services department said as many as seven people were being examined for possible injury.
It was not immediately known what prompted the fighting.
A preliminary account indicated that there was a possible injury at the Anacostia Metro station about the same time. Officials said they were trying to determine whether that incident was connected to the brawl.
Death toll in Pakistan bombing exceeds 100
Saturday, July 10th, 2010PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN — The death toll in a massive suicide bombing climbed to more than 100 victims Saturday, as authorities continued to search mounds of rubble for survivors.
Surge of attacks kills 6 US troops, 12 Afghans
Saturday, July 10th, 2010KABUL, Afghanistan — A wave of attacks killed six U.S. troops and at least a dozen civilians Saturday in Afghanistan’s volatile south and east, as American reinforcements moving into Taliban-dominated areas face up to the fierce resistance they expected.
U.S. Is Said to Expand Secret Actions in Mideast
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010WASHINGTON — The top American commander in the Middle East has ordered a broad expansion of clandestine military activity in an effort to disrupt militant groups or counter threats in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and other countries in the region, according to defense officials and military documents.
The ‘Obama doctrine’: kill, don’t detain
Friday, April 16th, 2010
Some CIA officials want to extend the controversial drone campaign to include tribal areas in Pakistan. Photograph: James Lee Harper Jr./AFP/Getty Images
George Bush left a big problem in the shape of Guantánamo. The solution? Don’t capture bad guys, assassinate by drone
Nuclear terrorism is gravest threat to global security, Barack Obama warns
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010Barack Obama, the US President, has warned that nuclear terrorism is the gravest threat to global security as he calls for action to keep nuclear-grade material out of the hands of extremists.
Suicide bomber kills 2 police in Russia’s Ingushetia
Monday, April 5th, 2010A suicide bomber killed two policemen in Russia’s Ingushetia region on Monday, the latest in a spate of attacks that underscores the threat from an Islamist insurgency on Russia’s southern flank.