Militants kill Nigerian troops in oil delta
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Militants in speed boats attacked Nigerian soldiers escorting a convoy supplying oilfields operated by Royal Dutch Shell on Monday, ending a month of relative quiet in the Niger Delta.
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Gunmen attacked an oil facility in restive southern Nigeria overnight and took two foreigners hostage, private security contractors said Monday.
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Rebel fighters in Nigeria&#39;s oil-producing Niger delta will attack oil wells and pipelines if the army does not halt assaults on their forces, a rebel commander says.
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A Nigerian militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has claimed responsibility for a raid on an oil export terminal on Thursday in which four expatriate workers were kidnapped.
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Insurgents on Wednesday ambushed a convoy of African Union peacekeepers sent to help stabilize Somalia's violent capital, setting off a gunfight that wounded three civilians, witnesses said.
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Gunmen have invaded an oilfield control station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Bayelsa state and are holding several soldiers and oil workers hostage, security and industry sources said on Friday.
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Soldiers killed two Kurdish militants in Turkey's rebellious southeast, where troops massed along the border threatened an incursion into Iraq.
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Gunmen attacked an oilfield on Sunday in Nigeria&#39;s southern Bayelsa State being guarded by soldiers after nine militants were killed by the army in the same area recently, an official said.
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Militants in speed boats  attacked an oil pumping station operated by Royal Dutch Shell  in a remote creek in southern Nigeria on Monday, an army  spokesman said.
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Gunmen attacked a southern Nigerian oil installation belonging to a subsidiary of Italy's Eni SpA early Thursday, taking three Italians hostage and killing another person, Italian and Nigerian officials said.
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Militants in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta region occupy an oil station, along with about 28 people - including soldiers.
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A Nigerian militant group, the Movement  for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has claimed  responsibility for a raid on an oil export terminal on Thursday  in which four expatriate workers were kidnapped.
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Militants in Nigeria's oil-producing region claim responsibility for the kidnapping of four foreign workers.
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Gunmen have invaded an oilfield control  station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Bayelsa  state and are holding several soldiers and oil workers hostage,  security and industry sources said on Friday.
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At least 13 people die in Nigeria when gunmen attack police stations and a hotel in Port Harcourt.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian gunmen attacked an Agip oil export terminal in the Niger Delta early on Thursday and kidnapped three expatriate workers, the commander of the armed forces in the region told Reuters.
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Thirteen people died after armed militants attacked targets in Port Harcourt, Nigeria's main oil industry hub, a military spokesman said today