Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Several dozen militants armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades attacked a power grid station in northwestern Pakistan before dawn Tuesday, killing seven people and taking four hostage, police said.
The attack on the outskirts of Peshawar city occurred at around 2 a.m., said the local police chief in the area, Granullah Khan. The militants first killed two people at the scene of the attack and took nine with them, he said.
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Monday, April 1, 2013
The Joint Task Force (JTF) has killed 14 Boko Haram suspects in a shootout at Unguwa Uku, Kano State. A wife to one of the suspects was also arrested.
The shootout was a result of a raid by officers of the Joint Task Force, JTF, on a suspected insurgent hide-out, security sources have said.
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Sunday, March 31, 2013
Clashes in northern Mali between a Tuareg separatist group and jihadist fighters have left nine dead, Tuareg officials said Saturday.
The fighting pitted Al Qaeda-linked Islamist groups against the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) — a secular separatist Tuareg group that currently supports the government.
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