Foreign troops raid E.Timor rebel base
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International security forces backed by helicopters raided a rebel hide-out in East Timor early Sunday and killed four suspected insurgents, officials said, though their leader escaped.
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International troops appeared to have quelled violence in East Timor&#039;s capital after sword-wielding youths battled in the streets and torched buildings and cars.
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Soldiers fired on unarmed police in East Timor&#039;s capital Thursday, killing nine and wounding 27, as international troops landed to try to end the fighting that threatens to push the country closer to civil war.
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East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta is undergoing surgery at an Australian military base in the capital Dili after being shot in the stomach during an attack on his home by rebel soldiers, a presidential adviser said on Monday.
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Dutch police say they have raided a suspected paramilitary training ground for Kurdish militants in the southern Netherlands, arresting 29 people.
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Hundreds of mutinous soldiers demanding  pay for peacekeeping duty abroad seized key buildings in the  capital of Guinea-Bissau on Wednesday and patrolled the  potholed streets in trucks with mounted machineguns.
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Troops and police enforced a state of emergency across East Timor on Tuesday as President Jose Ramos-Horta recuperated from an assassination bid that doctors said he was lucky to survive.
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Thousands of angry supporters of East Timor rebel Alfredo Reinado burned tyres and threw stones in the capital on Monday to protest against a raid by international troops on the fugitive's hideout.
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Elite Australian troops backed by tanks, planes and helicopters stormed an East Timor rebel leader's stronghold but the renegade evaded capture and is still on the loose, officials said Sunday.
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US troops backed by thunderous air and artillery barrages launched a ground offensive Monday to seize key rebel strongholds inside Fallujah, the city that became Iraq&#39;s major sanctuary for Islamic extremists who fought marines
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U.S. and Iraqi forces on Wednesday raided a hospital in Ramadi that they suspect is a base for insurgents.
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Dutch authorities have raided a suspected training camp of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrilla group in the southern Netherlands and arrested 29 people, prosecutors said on Friday.
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New looting and gang fights has erupted in the East Timor capital Dili, leaving homes and buildings in flames just 100 metres (yards) from the presidential palace, an AFP reporter witnessed.
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East Timor handed over security to Australian troops in the capital to restore order in the streets and stop a bloodbath between the Timorese military and rebel soldiers.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen in speed boats kidnapped seven foreign oil workers in a raid on an Italian oil production vessel off the Nigerian coast on Wednesday, authorities said.
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Australian troops have stormed the stronghold of East Timorese rebel Alfredo Reinado, killing four of his armed men, but failed to capture the fugitive leader, an Australian defence official said Sunday.
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Israeli special forces backed by at least   one transport helicopter raided a militant stronghold in the   southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, wounding at least two   Palestinians in battles with local militants, witnesses said.