Somali insurgents hit police station, Ethiopians
521799
Gunmen fired rockets at a Mogadishu police station and Ethiopian troops in the latest in a string of attacks on government positions in the lawless Horn of African country, residents said on Monday.
263571
Insurgents in pickup trucks attacked a police station south of Baghdad late Sunday, prompting an hourlong gunfight that killed 22 Iraqi security forces and 14 attackers, a police official said.
740226
Insurgents trying to attack African  Union peacekeepers hit a restaurant in Somalia's capital  Mogadishu with a rocket-propelled grenade, killing at least  nine people in the building, residents said on Thursday.
529512
Somali Islamist fighters and Ethiopian troops are facing one another in two Somali villages on the border with Ethiopia, raising fears of clashes, an Islamist leader and residents said on Friday.
350803
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.
336442
Gunmen attacked two police stations on  Friday around Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, where the  anti-American insurgency has been strong, witnesses said.
140547
Insurgents launched assaults around the city of Samarra on Wednesday, trading gunfire with US forces, attacking a convoy, and blowing up a police station after looting its armory.
163407
Somali government troops clashed with rival pro-Islamist fighters in a brief but fierce battle early on Tuesday in the south of the chaotic Horn of Africa country, a resident and the Islamists said.
639828
Suspected Islamic militants attacked a police checkpoint in Algeria with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns Sunday, killing five officers and wounding three others, according to a newspaper report.
251116
At least 10 people are killed in clashes between insurgents and government forces in a suburb of the Somali capital.
222399
At least 45 Iraqis were killed Tuesday when insurgents attacked three police stations in Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, medical sources and witnesses said.
24516
Attackers fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a pickup truck in Mogadishu on Thursday, wounding four people, in a reminder of the challenges facing the interim government trying to rule lawless Somalia.
91337
Gunmen attacked a police station and voting centers in Russia's war-torn Chechnya, killing at least 11 people, Interfax news agency said Saturday.
11480
Insurgents attacked the Somali interim government and their Ethiopian allies and battled for nearly an hour on Tuesday, shortly after mortar attacks were aimed at Ugandan peacekeepers who had just landed in Mogadishu.
108235
Government forces backed by Ethiopian troops reportedly clash with Islamists for a second day in Somalia.
399723
Islamic militants fired mortar shells and guns in the Somali capital on Thursday, sparking crossfire with Ethiopian troops and their Somali government allies that killed at least 16 people, witnesses said.
371624
FOUR policemen and a miliant were killed when insurgents attacked a security checkpoint in southern Afghanistan, the police have said.