Warlord escapes Afghan bomber
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Afghan warlord General Dostum escapes an apparent assassination attempt, says report.
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TERROR mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has escaped from Fallujah as military officials declared US troops had now occupied the rebel city.
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A British man suspected of plotting to blow up US-bound trans-Atlantic airliners has escaped from police custody in Pakistan, officials said early Sunday.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up in  northern Afghanistan on Thursday wounding two people, but the  apparent target of the attack, ethnic Uzbek warlord Abdul  Rashid Dostum, escaped unhurt, his aides said.
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Pakistan&#39;s Information and Broadcasting Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed had a narrow escape late on Wednesday when a Pakistan International Airlines plane was forced to dive to avoid a collision with another airliner over southern Pakistan.
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Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf escaped unharmed on Sunday when suspected Islamist insurgents hit his presidential compound in Mogadishu with mortar bombs for a second day, one of his aides said.
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A British suspect in an alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners escaped from police custody in Pakistan on Saturday, officials said.
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A leading Afghan Taleban fighter is captured after a shootout in south-west Pakistan, police say.
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Hamid Karzai&#39;s running mate in the Afghan presidential election narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by the Taliban yesterday in the latest bid to derail Saturday&#39;s poll.
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A failed rocket attack on a U.S. helicopter carrying President Hamid Karzai was carried out by a self-confessed Taliban commando, Afghanistan's top law-enforcer said Saturday.
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Aug. 17 (Bloomberg) -- US-led coalition warplanes bombed the forces of an Afghan warlord near the western city of Herat, Agence France-Presse reported from Afghanistan&#39;s capital Kabul, citing Herat&#39;s police chief Ziahuddin Muhmoodi.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai dodged death three weeks ago when Taliban fighters fired a rocket at him in Gardez. Yesterday, his running mate in Saturday&#39;s national election, Ahmad Zia Masood, barely survived a Taliban bomb in Faizabad.
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A bomber attacks Nato-led troops in an Afghan town said to have taken heavy civilian losses in recent fighting.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai&#39;s running mate in Saturday&#39;s presidential election escaped unhurt when a bomb exploded near his convoy in the northern city of Faizabad.
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THE Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, escaped an assassination attempt yesterday when a rocket was fired at his helicopter as it was landing in the south-eastern town of Gardez.
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KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped an assassination bid on Thursday when a rocket was fired at his US military helicopter as it was landing in the southeastern town of Gardez, Reuters news service reported.
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Abdul Aziz al-Hakim - head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq - escaped unhurt as a suicide bomber detonated his car at the leaderâs gate on Monday.