Philippine army in southern clash
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The Philippine army says it is involved in clashes with Muslim separatists on the southern island of Mindanao.
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Hundreds of people have fled a village in the southern Philippines after troops stormed a Muslim rebel base, hunting for dozens of prisoners who escaped from jail earlier this month, the rebels and officials said on Monday.
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Two Philippine soldiers and three suspected Islamic militants are killed in a clash on the southern island of Jolo.
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At least 14 people were killed and 59 others injured in a bomb attack in a public market in the southern Philippines, the military said.
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Suspected Taliban rebels ambushed two Afghan army convoys and U.S. forces in the country&#039;s south, sparking gunbattles that killed at least 25 militants, five Afghan soldiers and a U.S. soldier, coalition forces said Saturday.
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Philippine communist guerrillas vowed to  step up attacks on government security forces outside the  capital to coincide with protests against attempts to alter the  political system, a rebel spokesman said late on Wednesday.
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There are greater numbers of Taliban rebels putting up a fight in southern Afghanistan than expected by the newly-deployed British military, a senior commander said.
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In this photo released by the Philippine Air Force, shows uprooted trees littered near a swollen river after it was hit by a storm in Infanta town, Quezon province, eastern Philippines on Tuesday Nov. 30, 2004.
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PORT HARCOURT (Nigeria) - Nigeria&#39;s army yesterday launched an offensive against a separatist rebel group which threatened oil installations and workers in the southern Delta region, an army spokesman said.
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Up to 10 people are killed in air strikes on rebels in the southern island of Mindanao.
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GENERAL NAKAR, Philippines  - Philippine troops  rushed food and drinking water by foot and helicopters on  Sunday to areas cut off by four storms that left more than  1,300 people dead or missing as residents scrambled to flee the  region.
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TROOPS killed a member of the Abu Sayyaf Muslim kidnap gang and captured four others in a raid in this southern Philippine city, officials said today.
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Thousands of people protested against U.S. soldiers involved in humanitarian missions in Muslim areas of the southern Philippines on Monday, saying the troops' presence could be provocative.
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British Army soldiers from the 1st Battalion, Duke of Wellington Regiment, move toward the center of Basra, southern Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004, during clashes with armed gunmen.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 31 -- Taliban insurgents attacked a southern town Thursday, sparking intense fighting with government troops that left two guerrillas dead, the Defense Ministry said.
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Rebel fighters attacked U.S. troops and fired rockets at American helicopters in a skirmish in southern Afghanistan, the military said Wednesday.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan  - British-led forces launched a major operation in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, aiming to clear Taliban insurgents from a valley in Helmand -- the most violent province in the country.