Iranian clashes 'kill 17 rebels'
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Iran's military has killed 17 rebels near the border with Turkey, say state media agencies.
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A booby-trapped car blew up a bus owned by the Revolutionary Guards on Wednesday, killing at least 11 people, in a border city in southeastern Iran where security forces and drug smugglers often clash, state media reported.
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The Algerian army killed 17 Islamist rebels during security operations in the east of the country over three days this week, security sources said Saturday.
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At least 13 people are killed in clashes between police and members of an Shia cult in southern Iraq, officials say.
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Guerrillas shot dead 17 Iraqis working  for U.S. forces north of Baghdad Sunday and killed six other  people, including three Iraqi National Guards, taking the toll  from three days of violence to more than 70.
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Rebel fighters attacked U.S. troops and fired rockets at American helicopters in a skirmish in southern Afghanistan, the military said Wednesday.
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At least 27 Tamil Tiger rebels and soldiers have been killed in clashes in northern Sri Lanka, the defence ministry said.
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Separatist Kurdish rebels killed 16 Turkish soldiers and wounded 17 in an ambush Sunday in the mountainous southeast of the country, security sources said.
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Insurgents vowing total war on Sunday's  Iraqi election unleashed a surge of violence on Saturday,  killing 17 people in bombings and rocket attacks as the country  battened down for the landmark vote.
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Iranian troops Wednesday killed 10 militants in ongoing clashes in the country's northwest, near the border with Turkey, Iran's official news agency reported.
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TUNCELI, Turkey  - Kurdish rebels killed 17 Turkish soldiers and wounded 16 others in an ambush on Sunday, prompting Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to call crisis talks to consider a military strike against rebel bases in Iraq.
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Three Palestinian militants are killed in clashes with Israeli army forces in the south of the Gaza Strip.
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TEHRAN, Iran  -- A bomb explosion killed at least 18 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran, the state-run news agency reported Wednesday.
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Iran has arrested some 65 men suspected of being behind a deadly bombing that killed members of the elite Revolutionary Guards in a southeastern border province, the student news agency ISNA said on Friday.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey  - Kurdish rebels killed 17 Turkish soldiers and wounded 16 others in an ambush on Sunday, prompting crisis talks in Ankara to consider a military strike against rebel bases in Iraq.
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Suspected left-wing rebels in Colombia kill 17 peasants at a New Year's Eve party, police say.
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A battle between police and Taliban left 20 suspected militants and two policemen dead in northwestern Afghanistan, while airstrikes and clashes left another 27 militants dead in the south, officials said Sunday.