Peacekeeper shot dead in Solomons
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An Australian policeman becomes the first casualty in a peacekeeping operation in the Solomon Islands.
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Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian gunman in the Gaza Strip Sunday as he approached the border fence with Israel, the army said.
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An African Union (AU) peacekeeper was killed and another wounded when unknown gunmen ambushed their patrol in the strife-torn western Sudanese region of Darfur, AU officials said Monday.
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The Australian government announced on Wednesday it will send more troops to the Solomon Islands after an Australian officer of a regional intervention force was killed by
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the second UN peacekeeper to be shot in Haiti over the weekend. On Saturday a Brazilian was hurt in the capital
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A Hindu priest who blessed Sri Lanka's president at the weekend is shot dead.
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: A renegade leader of the Tamil Tigers has been killed in a firefight in Sri Lankaâs restive east, the rebel group said today, the latest in a rash of killings marring a truce that halted two decades of civil war.
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Unidentified gunmen fatally shot a hard-hitting radio commentator in the southern Philippines on Monday, police and the victim's colleagues said, in the fifth deadly attack on a Philippine journalist this year.
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Indian security forces last night shot dead the country&#39;s most wanted bandit, the brutal leader of an ivory smuggling gang they had been chasing for decades.
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A Nepalese peacekeeper was killed and seven others were feared kidnapped by militiamen during a military operation in Congo&#039;s volatile northeast, U.N. officials said Monday.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- There&#39;s word that one security guard is dead after gunfire erupted at a tent set up in the Gaza Strip for mourners to gather in memory of Yasser Arafat.
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At least four people died in riots on Friday in Liberia&#39;s capital, where UN peacekeepers fired in the air to bring rampaging, stick-wielding youths under control and a daylight curfew was in force.
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Heavily-armed Australian troops arrived in the Solomon Islands yesterday as the body of the first peacekeeper killed during a mission to restore law and order in the Pacific nation was flown home.
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Suspected communist rebels have shot dead the leader of a breakaway guerrilla group that entered into a peace agreement with the Philippine government, police say.
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Two gunmen riding motorcycles shot dead a radio journalist in the southern Philippines on Monday, the fifth reporter to be killed this year in the country.
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A Palestinian doctor was killed on Sunday evening in his home by gunfire from the Israeli army in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian medic said.
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Israeli soldiers shot and killed a  Palestinian gunman on Monday as he approached a military  outpost near a Jewish settlement in the southern Gaza Strip, a  military source said.