Taliban kill seven hostages in Afghanistan: police
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Afghanistan's Taliban shot dead seven men, two of them truck drivers for a Western security firm, who had been kidnapped in the past week, police and a rebel spokesman said Sunday.
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KABUL -- Three Afghan employees of a French aid organization, who had been held hostage for seven weeks by Taliban insurgents, were freed unharmed after local residents intervened, the governor of Nimruz Province, Ghulam Dastagir Azad, said yesterday. The three men were kidnapped along with two French aid workers on April 3. They had been working on a project for ...
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BESLAN, Russia - At least seven people were killed and 310 others wounded Friday, reports said, after commandos stormed a school in southern Russia where hundreds had been held hostage for three days by rebels strapped with explosives.    Troops killed five of the hostage-takers but 13 others escaped, the ITAR-Tass news agency said...
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces killed 12 Taliban fighters on Tuesday, including two militant leaders involved in the kidnap of 23 South Koreans in July, a provincial police chief said.
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Seven policemen were killed in a gun battle with US soldiers after troops attacked their post in eastern Afghanistan following a &quot;misunderstanding,&quot; government officials said Tuesday.
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JALALABAD, Afghanistan  - U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan mistakenly killed seven policemen in an air strike after Afghan forces came under attack from the Taliban and asked for help, a provincial official said on Tuesday.
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The Taliban has launched a new operation targeting government and foreign forces in Afghanistan, a spokesman said Sunday, as two policemen died in an ambush in the volatile south.
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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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Suspected militants ambushed a NATO convoy in eastern Afghanistan, killing two members of the alliance and wounding seven troops, while 15 suspected militants were killed by police, officials said Sunday.
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Militants blew up a security vehicle in a Pakistani tribal area, killing a policeman and wounding seven others, while four more officers were kidnapped, officials said.
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A roadside bomb destroyed a police vehicle patrolling in a dangerous area of southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing all seven policemen on board, an official said.
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Gunmen disguised as soldiers killed seven people at two police stations in the troubled Mexican resort of Acapulco on Tuesday, despite a military crackdown against violent drug gangs.
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NATO-led forces have killed up to 60 Taliban rebels in clashes in southern Afghanistan, an official said, amid a visit to the war-torn country by the alliance's leadership.
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Up to seven supporters of an ousted Afghan governor have been killed and 20 wounded in clashes with police and US troops in the western city
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Roadside bombs and battles with Taliban forces killed six police and left 13 Taliban fighters dead or wounded in separate incidents in southern Afghanistan, officials said Friday.
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Up to seven people were killed in an attack on a police station in Grozny, the capital of the Russian breakaway republic of Chechnya, a report quoting officials said.
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RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - Saudi police have killed seven militants following two early evening suicide bombings in Riyadh. Security officials say they believe the militants they killed were involved in some way