Baghdad Governor Escapes Apparent Assassination Attempt
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Fierce fighting between US forces and Shi&#39;ite militants in Baghdad&#39;s Sadr City neighborhood has killed at least one US soldier and more than 30 Iraqis.
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Afghan warlord General Dostum escapes an apparent assassination attempt, says report.
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Turkish paramilitary police  escaped unscathed from a suicide attack by the separatist  Kurdistan Workers&#39; Party (PKK) late on Saturday, the provincial  governor said on Sunday.
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Iraq's Shi'ite vice president and a cabinet minister were wounded in an apparent assassination attempt on Monday when a bomb killed six people at a ministry in Baghdad where they were attending a ceremony.
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Governor of south-eastern province escapes unhurt but several people are injured in suicide blast.
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Bangladesh&#39;s main opposition party says party leader and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed narrowly escaped an assassination attempt yesterday, during an attack on a political rally.
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Gunmen opened fire Wednesday on a convoy carrying former Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi in an apparent assassination attempt that wounded two of his bodyguards, Chalabi&#39;s spokesman said.
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BAGHDAD -- Gunmen killed the governor of Baghdad province and several bodyguards yesterday in a swiftly executed mid-morning attack. Governor Ali al-Haidari had been a vocal supporter of US reconstruction efforts in Iraq.
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A former Lebanese minister escaped an attempt on his life Friday in an explosion that hit his official car at Beirut&#39;s waterfront, security sources said.
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Iraqi politician and former US favourite Ahmed Chalabi escapes unhurt after gunmen open fire on his convoy.
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Gunmen killed the Baghdad governor in Iraq's highest-profile assassination in eight months and a suicide bomber killed 10 people near the Green Zone on Tuesday in an escalating campaign to wreck a Jan. 30 election.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi revealed he had escaped four attempts on his life since his interim government took over from the US-led occupation forces almost three months ago.
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Gunmen killed the deputy governor of Baghdad today on his way to work, Iraqi officials said. Hatim Kamil was assassinated in a drive-by shooting this morning, said Baghdad Governor Ali al-Haidari.
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Somalia's trade minister and former defense minister escaped assassination attempts, which killed two other people, in the latest Iraq-style guerrilla attacks on government targets, witnesses said on Wednesday.
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Guerrillas detonated a roadside bomb in Baghdad on Tuesday as the convoy of the Baghdad governor was passing, killing one bystander, witnesses and police at the scene said.
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Gunmen opened fire Wednesday on a convoy carrying former Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi in an apparent assassination attempt that wounded two of his bodyguards, Chalabi's spokesman said.
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TUNCELI, Turkey  - Turkish paramilitary police escaped unscathed from a suicide attack by the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) late on Saturday, the provincial governor said on Sunday.