Afghan woman radio boss shot dead
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Gunmen shoot dead a woman who ran a radio station in Afghanistan, days after a female newsreader was killed.
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A gunman wearing camouflage shot a woman to death at a Wisconsin factory where she was working early Monday, police said.
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An Iraqi journalist was shot to death while she was waiting for a taxi Thursday in the northern city of Mosul, according to police and her news agency.
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MOSCOW -- A journalist who chronicled Russian military abuses against civilians in Chechnya, garnering awards and accolades from around the world, was found shot to death yesterday in her apartment building. Prosecutors suspect her killing could be connected to her investigative reporting.
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An American woman has died after being wounded by a suicide bomber in Kabul, the US military said, taking the death toll from the attack on a crowded shopping street popular with foreigners to two.
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The deputy governor of Afghanistan's Helmand province is killed in a bomb attack on a mosque.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan  - A deputy provincial governor along with four other people were killed while praying in a mosque on Thursday in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, a doctor said.
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LAHORE, Pakistan  - A man shot dead a Pakistani provincial government minister on Tuesday as she was about to give a speech at a political party meeting, a minister said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Sep. 10 -- A suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his body assassinated the popular governor of eastern Paktia province Sunday, just two days after a powerful car bomb killed 16 people, including two U.S. soldiers, in downtown Kabul, the capital.
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Gunmen shot and killed a Somali radio journalist in the south of the country Friday, a colleague said, in the third violent death of a journalist in two weeks.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Sept. 25 -- A teacher for more than three decades and an advocate for women's rights, Safia Ama Jan ran an underground school for girls during Taliban rule. On Monday, two men on a motorbike gunned her down as she left for work -- identifying their target despite her full...
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Two gunmen on a motorbike killed the provincial director of Afghanistan's Ministry of Women's Affairs outside her home Monday in apparent retribution for her efforts to help educate women, officials said.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Gunmen shot and killed a  Baptist minister who was Haiti's most popular radio personality  on Monday, the radio station's owner said.
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Gunmen ambushed two German journalists traveling in northern Afghanistan on Saturday killing them both, Afghan officials said.
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French troops have shot dead a gunman in the Afghan capital, Kabul, after he opened fire on them, the US military says.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A doctor helping organize Afghan elections died yesterday along with four other civilians when an explosion tore through their vehicle, police said. He was the first election worker to die in violence since the landmark vote.
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Officials in Afghanistan say security forces have killed a senior Taliban commander in southern Afghanistan. Government officials say Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar and two followers died in a gunbattle late Saturday in a village in the central province of Uruzgan.