Nigerian army moves on militants
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Troop reinforcements and gunboats are sent to a Nigerian oil platform occupied by militants since Sunday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Militants have targeted more Iraqi police stations and checkpoints in a series of attacks that killed 24 people, including 19 police officers.
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A group of gunmen wearing security force uniforms invaded a compound in restive southern Nigeria and kidnapped four foreign oil workers without firing a shot, police said Saturday.
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Nigerian security agents have stepped up efforts to secure the release of four foreign oil and gas workers who were taken prisoner this week in the restive Niger Delta.
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Nigeria's army launched an offensive against a separatist rebel group which has threatened oil installations and workers in the southern Delta region, an army spokesman said.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Militants said they killed nine soldiers in a 90-minute firefight in Nigeria's oil heartland on Wednesday and threatened imminent attacks on strategic oil facilities.
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Attack helicopters battled speedboats full of armed fighters for control of key oil installations. Seven foreigners were abducted from a residential compound, and militants claimed dozens of soldiers were killed. Even by the standards of Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta region, it has been a bloody week.
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Armed men attacked a convoy in Nigeria's oil-rich southeastern delta Wednesday, sparking a gunbattle with security forces, a government security official said.
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The Nigerian military said they would maintain a tough stance on hostage-takers despite the killing of a British hostage caught in the crossfire between the kidnappers and their rescuers.
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A Nigerian militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has claimed responsibility for a raid on an oil export terminal on Thursday in which four expatriate workers were kidnapped.
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US and Iraqi forces pushed on with their second major offensive in a week Wednesday, hunting insurgents in a triangle southwest of Baghdad that has become one of Iraq&#39;s most notorious hot spots.
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Militants freed around 25 kidnapped Nigerian oil workers on Wednesday but five abducted expatriates were still missing in another part of the Niger Delta after an unprecedented attack on a residential compound.
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Rival Nigerian politicians are arming militias in advance of April elections, in hopes of rigging the outcome and gaining control of millions in oil revenue at stake.
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The United States warned Friday that Nigerian militants may be planning to expand their activities beyond the country's restive oil-producing southern regions.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Militants in speed boats attacked an oil pumping station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in a remote creek in southern Nigeria on Monday, an army spokesman said.
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Militants from Nigeria's oil-producing delta are planning to expand their attacks on foreign nationals beyond the Niger Delta region, the U.S. consulate said in a warning on Friday.
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LAGOS, Nigeria - A gunbattle between security forces and Islamic militants fighting to create a Taliban-style state in northern Nigeria left 29 people dead, most of them militants, police said Friday.    In the southern oil region, meanwhile, clashes between troops and tribal militia fighters forced oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell to evacuate two facilities, the company said...