Peacekeepers fire on troops at river-border
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Bukavu/Nairobi - United Nations peacekeepers have fired on troops trying to enter the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from Rwanda, the UN-funded radio station Radio Okapi reported on Wednesday.
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United Nations troops have deployed amid lush hills in eastern Congo to create a buffer zone meant to stop fighting between army factions which has uprooted thousands and raised tension with Rwanda.
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ANDAHUAYLAS, Peru -- Soldiers carrying automatic weapons were closing in on a police station seized by paramilitary nationalists over the weekend in this remote Andean town, and the Interior Ministry said yesterday that it was preparing to storm the building
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A military convoy was attacked this morning in the lawless tribal region on the border with Afghanistan.
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GONAIVES, Haiti - Two United Nations peacekeepers were wounded in shootouts with supporters of Haiti&#39;s ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in the capital and storm survivors in flood-ravaged Gonaives, officials said today.
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MAROUN A-RAS, Lebanon -- UN troops sent tanks and armor yesterday to a tense area along the frontier with Israel to try to determine whether an Israeli bulldozer crossed into Lebanon, sparking the first shootout since last summer's Hezbollah-Israel war.
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The rattle of machinegun fire echoes across the water as French peacekeeping sailors engage in shooting drills to keep sharp six months after a UN-brokered truce ended the war between Israel and Hezbollah.
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Israeli and Lebanese forces clash on their common border as Israeli troops search for bombs, Israeli officials say.
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DR Congo says it is sending thousands of troops to the border with Rwanda amid growing tensions.
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French troops clashed with soldiers and angry mobs Saturday after government warplanes killed at least nine French peacekeepers and an American civilian in an airstrike -- mayhem that threatened to draw foreign ...
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Lebanese troops deployed along the border with Israel opened fire late Wednesday as Israeli troops searched for Hezbollah bombs, drawing retaliatory fire, officials from both sides said.
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Two Ugandan troops and a Congolese soldier were killed in clashes on a flashpoint border lake where oil was recently discovered, a Ugandan army spokesman said Tuesday.
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Two Palestinian gunmen climbed over Israel's wall on the Gaza border yesterday, attacked a military base, and made their way toward a civilian community before soldiers tracked them down and killed them.
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RIVAL factions in Congoâs postwar army fought gun battles on the vast nationâs eastern border with Rwanda yesterday, killing several people, a top military official said.
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Peacekeepers are mostly from former African Union corps since president has blocked troops from elsewhere
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NATO forces launched a new military operation Wednesday in Afghanistan's most violent southern province, while the alliance said it was investigating a shipment of weapons intercepted near the border with Iran this month.
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KINSHASA, Congo -- Militia fighters wounded two UN soldiers yesterday when they fired on peacekeeping troops sent to investigate a reported mass grave of militia victims, including child combatants, in northeastern Ituri Province, a spokesman for the United Nations said.