Somali insurgents hit police station, Ethiopians
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Gunmen fired rockets at a Mogadishu police station and Ethiopian troops in the latest in a string of attacks on government positions in the lawless Horn of African country, residents said on Monday.
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Hundreds of Ethiopian troops arrived to protect Somalia's government Friday as witnesses said a powerful Islamic militia massed nearby, raising concerns of clashes between the two forces.
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UP to seven people were killed today in an attack on a police station in Grozny, the capital of the Russian breakaway republic of Chechnya, the Interfax news agency reported.
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Suspected Islamic militants attacked a police checkpoint in Algeria with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns Sunday, killing five officers and wounding three others, according to a newspaper report.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Four policemen and a militant were killed when insurgents attacked a security checkpoint in southern Afghanistan, the police said on Monday.
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Heavy fighting between police and insurgents Tuesday killed six civilians and a policeman in Mogadishu as the United Nations warned of a looming humanitarian crisis in war-ruined Somalia.
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - Insurgents attacked three police  stations in the town of Baquba northeast of Baghdad on Tuesday,  killing 25 policemen and wounding many more, police said.
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Insurgents attacked the Somali interim government and their Ethiopian allies and battled for nearly an hour on Tuesday, shortly after mortar attacks were aimed at Ugandan peacekeepers who had just landed in Mogadishu.
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Insurgents in Baghdad struck a police station and a mosque at dawn Friday, killing at least 30 people and wounding nearly as many.
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At least two people died when gunmen threw grenades and opened fire on Ethiopian troops guarding a former Islamist base in the latest Iraq-style insurgent attack in Mogadishu, residents said on Monday.
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Government forces backed by Ethiopian troops reportedly clash with Islamists for a second day in Somalia.
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Insurgents in pickup trucks attacked a police station south of Baghdad late Sunday, prompting an hourlong gunfight that killed 22 Iraqi security forces and 14 attackers, a police official said.
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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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Newly-trained security forces clashed with police at a Mogadishu police station on Saturday in a gunbattle that killed one person and wounded two, witnesses said.
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A Somali port is hit by deadly grenade attacks on Ethiopians believed to be about to risk the crossing to Yemen.
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Gunmen belonging to a nationalist group that seized a police station in remote southern Peru ambushed a police vehicle responding to the scene Sunday, killing four officers and wounding several more, hospital officials said.
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Somali insurgents shot dead a local official on Thursday and attacked Ethiopian troops overnight just hours after a second attempt to start a peace conference was postponed, residents said.