Islamic militants navigate clan politics
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Islamic militiamen have consolidated their power in the Somali capital, but their leaders now have to navigate treacherous clan politics, the source of the country&#039;s 15 years of anarchy.
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When shrapnel lands in Najaf&#39;s Imam Ali shrine, Shi&#39;ite militants holed up inside the sacred complex casually inspect the hot metal and then return to prayers or chanting defiant slogans.
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With new fighting expected to break out next spring in Afghanistan, the Pakistani government will soon have to decide what it can do about the tribal authorities who have not been living up to their agreement to prevent Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters from moving back and forth across the border, according to Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte....
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In a poisonous landscape, competing Shiite groups no longer look to the political system to allocate power.
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Islamic militants are flouting a recent peace deal and fortifying alliances with Al Qaeda and foreign fighters, creating a virtual Taliban mini-state.
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Long-haired militants with assault rifles and walkie-talkies guard the approach to the stronghold of Maulana Fazlullah, the radical cleric whose mission to spread fundamentalist Islam has provoked a bloody showdown with Pakistan's government.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A militant group posted a video on the Internet purporting to show militants sawing off the heads of three Iraqi members of a Kurdish party for cooperating with U.S. forces...
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Officials say Islamist militants behind assassination attempt on Benazir Bhutto.
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Fundamentalist Islamic leaders in Saudi Arabia are telling militants intent on fighting "infidels" to join the insurgency in Iraq instead of taking up Osama bin Laden's call to oust the Saudi royal family at home, say Saudi dissidents who monitor theological edicts coming out of the kingdom.
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A look at the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad:
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Growing divisions among pro-US Sunni tribal chiefs threatens to unravel American gains against Al Qaeda.
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BAGHDAD -- A vociferous and well-organized faction of extremist Shi'ite Muslims is mobilizing to challenge the new government that emerges from Iraq's recent election and to push for a hard line against the United States.
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The winners of the parliamentary elections said that they would take a new approach to fighting Islamic militants.
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WANA, Pakistan - Pakistan says it has Islamic militants in the rugged tribal belt bordering Afghanistan on the run after a protracted and hard-fought military campaign.
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Sunni âAwakeningâ groups, paid by the U.S. to fight extremists, have become a success story in Iraq, but there are growing concerns about what will happen to them after a U.S. handoff.
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The winners of Pakistanâs parliamentary elections said that they would take a new approach to fighting Islamic militants by pursuing less military confrontation.
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Established Shiite parties and upstarts are feuding, and their leading cleric is trying to pull them together before the election.