Somali insurgents attack police
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Seven people, including three police officers, are killed in the Somali capital, after a new opposition group is formed.
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Heavy fighting erupted in Mogadishu after about 100 insurgents attacked Somali interim government troops and their Ethiopian allies at a base inside the former defense headquarters on Tuesday, a witness said.
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Gunmen attacked a police station in the  western Iraqi town of Haditha on Sunday, took 21 policemen  hostage and later shot them dead, police said.
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Insurgents attacked the airport in Mogadishu on Tuesday and fought a heavy battle with government and Ethiopian troops as Ugandan peacekeepers arrived in Somalia's lawless capital.
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BAGHDAD Insurgents continued their relentless assault on Iraq&#39;s fledgling security forces on Tuesday, killing at least 23 Iraqi police and national guard officers in multiple attacks across the Sunni-dominated zone to the north of Baghdad.
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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 killed at least 10 civilians, witnesses and a hospital official said.
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At least seven policemen are killed in an ambush by suspected Islamists in Algeria, security officials say.
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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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Iraqi officials say insurgents attacked several police posts in an area north of Baghdad Tuesday, killing at least 18 policemen and wounding several others.
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Gunmen ambushed an Iraqi police checkpoint in northern Iraq before dawn Wednesday, killing six officers in a sophisticated attack on fledgling Iraqi security installations, police 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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Guerrillas armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades have attacked a police station in Baghdad, killing at least three policemen.
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At least two people are killed overnight in the Somali capital during surprise attacks on two police stations.
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Insurgents have launched multiple attacks on Iraqi police posts and other targets in Sunni Muslim strongholds north of Baghdad, killing at least 43 people.
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Taleban militants in Afghanistan kill six police in an attack on their convoy in the south-east Paktika province.
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Taliban fighters have killed four Afghan police and wounded four others in a drive-by shooting at a checkpoint in south Afghanistan, police say.
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Somali government troops and their Ethiopian allies used tanks and heavy artillery to battle gunmen who struck a military base at the former defense ministry in Mogadishu on Friday.