Chad says nearly 40 killed in Janjaweed raids
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N'DJAMENA  - Nearly 40 people were killed in clashes between Chad's security forces and Arab raiders on horseback who attacked two eastern villages, burning homes and mutilating their victims, the government said on Tuesday.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Fifty people suspected of  involvement in Iraq's insurgency have been detained in Najaf  following Sunday's suicide car bombing in which the death toll  has risen to 52 killed and over 140 wounded, the governor said.
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Chad's government imposes a dusk-to-dawn curfew in much of the country after the rebel assault last weekend.
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Pakistani troops attacked militants in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border with helicopters and artillery in Wednesday, killing up to 40 of them, a military spokesman said.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad government forces fought on Saturday with rebels around the eastern town of Abeche after the insurgents launched a fresh attack in their campaign against President Idriss Deby, the defense minister said.
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A Chadian military reconnaissance plane was shot down in eastern Chad on Tuesday, a government spokesman said, and a rebel group claimed responsibility. A government spokesman blamed neighboring Sudan for backing the rebels and said it was "a state of war."
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American and Iraqi forces have carried out 452 raids since last week&#039;s killing of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and 104 insurgents were killed during those actions, the U.S. military said Thursday.
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Bombs killed more than 40 people in   Iraq on Wednesday, including 24 at a market in Baghdad, where   insurgents defied a U.S.-backed security clampdown in its   fourth week.
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At least 40 militants and eight Pakistan soldiers have been killed in 24 hours of intense fighting in a tribal area bordering Afghanistan, the military said Thursday.
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Some 30,000 Sudanese, victims of fresh  attacks by Arab militia inside Darfur, have threatened to cross  into Chad, the U.N. refugee agency warned on Friday.
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Dozens of people have been killed in fighting between Arab tribesemen and ex-rebel south Sudanese forces along the line separating north and south Sudan, local media reported on Sunday.
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Police say up to 30 armed militants have been killed as a result of clashes in Nigeria&#39;s mountainous border region with Cameroon.
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JUBA, Sudan  - Militias supported by Khartoum's army have attacked southern Sudanese soldiers near the north-south border killing dozens of people, southern army officials said on Monday.
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Sudanese police killed up to 20 people and injured 40 on Saturday when they opened fire on a crowd of easterners demonstrating in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan, a local political leader said.
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Several Arab fighters were among four  militants killed and others captured in raids by U.S.-led  forces on al Qaeda-linked compounds in eastern Afghanistan at  the weekend, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
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Al-Qaeda's North Africa wing says it carried out two attacks which killed at least 50 in the past two days.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 18 -- More than 40 people were killed Friday during clashes between Iraqi security forces and an obscure Shiite sect in southern Iraq, the deadliest violence since the U.S.-led coalition handed over control of the region last month, Iraqi officials said.