Gunmen kill former Philippine rebel leader
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Suspected communist rebels shot dead the leader of a breakaway guerrilla group that entered into a peace agreement with the Philippine government, police said on Monday.
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An unidentified gunman fatally shot the editor of a weekly newspaper in the southern Philippines, police said Monday, the latest in a string of killings of journalists.
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Rebels killed a mayor and a former town council member after seizing them at a roadblock in eastern Colombia as they headed to a meeting on how to confront violence in the area, authorities said Saturday.
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A former leader who quietly pressed for Syria to quit Lebanon was killed Monday.
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Gunmen kidnap a Filipino oil worker and kill his police escort in Nigeria's main oil region, police say.
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The Philippine military Saturday accused the Abu Sayyaf Group of slaying a Mindanao-based photo journalist on Friday. Local media quoted army investigators as saying that Abu
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Gunmen in Pakistan shoot dead  six members of the main opposition Pakistan People's Party, police say.
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MANILA: Deposed Philippines leader Joseph Estrada on Wednesday used the funeral of his movie star friend and defeated presidential candidate, Fernando Poe, to attack the incumbent president.
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COLOMBO Tamil Tiger rebels killed the No. 2 leader of a renegade guerrilla faction involved in fighting between the two groups amid a surge in violence that has threatened Sri Lanka&#39;s fragile cease-fire, military and rebel sources said Thursday.
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A gunman shoots dead a former mayor at a court hearing in the Philippine capital, Manila.
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Pakistani forces killed a rebel Islamist leader and more than 50 militants on Tuesday after 15 hours of fighting in an Islamabad mosque compound to end a week-long siege.
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A senior Taliban commander involved in the abduction of 23 South Korean missionaries was among dozens of insurgents killed in clashes in southern Afghanistan overnight, police said on Tuesday.
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Gunmen on Monday assassinated a member of an influential Sunni clerics&#39; group that has called for a boycott of national elections, just a day after Iraqi officials announced the balloting would be held Jan. 30 in spite of rising violence in Iraq.
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Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels have reportedly gunned down a key renegade leader, who was involved in factional fighting among the guerrillas.
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In another incident, two gunmen shot dead a former prosecutor in Pattani province on Sunday, police said. The bird campaign, launched by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra weeks ahead of a general election, caught
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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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Gunmen killed two members of Mexico's former ruling party Saturday in a mountain city in southern Mexico, local media reported.