Curfew lifted in Baghdad
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Iraqis slowly began returning to the streets of Baghdad when a curfew was lifted on Sunday, four days after the bombing of a revered Shi'ite Muslim mosque to the north sparked fears of reprisal sectarian attacks.
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Authorities cracking down on violence in southern Nigeria&#39;s oil capital Port Harcourt have extended for the second time a curfew in the city.
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Businesses reopened and traffic resumed in Bangladesh's major cities Saturday as authorities relaxed a curfew imposed to quell violent anti-government protests and announced the arrests of at least 144 people.
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Iraq's government shut down the capital with a one-day curfew on Saturday, ordering all cars and pedestrians off the streets, but giving no reason for the measure.
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BAGHDAD -- The relative lull in violence is a promising sign that the Baghdad security plan is off to a good start, the Iraqi prime minister said yesterday, while a top US military official cautioned that it might be a temporary letup as militant organizations assess the new measures and gear up to fight back.
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BAGHDAD -- Officials imposed curfews, Iraqis hunkered down in their homes, and a top US commander admitted to a "sinking feeling" yesterday after bombs once again struck a Shi'ite Muslim mosque partially destroyed in an attack last year.
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Six car bombs killed 146 people in a Shi'ite stronghold on Thursday in the bloodiest attack in Baghdad since the U.S. invasion and the authorities imposed an indefinite curfew on a city fearful of a sectarian civil war.
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Iraq's government said on Tuesday it had closed its borders with Syria and Iran and extended the hours of a night curfew in Baghdad under a U.S.- backed security plan to rein in violence in the capital.
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The authorities in Mogadishu lift a curfew imposed in June in honour of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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Baghdad - Iraq&#39;s interim government on Tuesday announced that a night-time curfew will be imposed on Baghdad and surrounding areas until further notice amid escalating violence in the country.
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KATMANDU: A shoot-on-sight curfew imposed in Kathmandu to prevent riots and violent protests over the killing of 12 Nepalese workers in Iraq entered its third day on Friday, as officials said they were trying to recover hostagesâ bodies.
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A curfew of 9 pm to 5 am was imposed on the Iraqi city of Mosul following yesterday&#39;s attack on a mess tent at the US military base there that killed at least 22 people, including 14
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Hundreds of soldiers are patrolling the streets of the Nepalese capital, after the government lifted a curfew imposed after deadly anti-Muslim riots erupted last week.
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Nightly curfews are planned and TV ads are now encouraging Iraqis to assert their rights on Sunday.
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BAGHDAD -- Gunfights broke out and mortars came crashing down on parts of the capital yesterday despite a three-day-old curfew and appeals for calm from Iraq's top Shi'ite, Sunni, and Kurdish political leaders.
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Iraqi authorities imposed the first nighttime curfew in more than a year on Baghdad and surrounding areas Tuesday in the latest use of new emergency powers, the prime minister's office said.
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Liberia&#39;s interim leader announced on Saturday a temporary lifting of a curfew imposed after religious riots gripped the capital Monrovia to allow residents to venture out to buy food.