Authorities have been on the trail of the German-born Muslim convert Eric B. for months. Now they fear that the young Islamist, who is currently in Afghanistan, is on the verge of committing a suicide attack. German authorities are increasingly concerned that the German Islamist Eric B. (more…) is on the verge of committing a [...]

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The US military says a roadside bomb hit one of its convoys in the southern city of Basra, causing casualties. The military gave no further details. AP Television News footage from Basra on Monday showed smoke rising from a vehicle burning on a highway overpass. US troops and Humvees blocked access to the scene. (AP)

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IRBIL, April 21 (KUNA) — An explosion Monday targeted and killed a member of the National Relations Bureau’s Kirkuk Office in the aviation square area, Iraqi Police sources said.
The sources added unidentified gunmen had also today shot dead Captain Mohammad Saeed Khalil in front of his home.
The captain worked with the Sleiman Pek district Police [...]

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BAGHDAD, April 21 (KUNA) — Multi-National Division (MND) soldiers in Baghdad killed 17 militants in separate missions, a statement said Monday.
An MND statement here said soldiers killed 12 militants in two separate incidents in Al-Adhamiya, while five others were killed in Sadr city as they were transporting weapons in the city.
The MND also unveiled that [...]

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Reported by Akhbar al-Khaleej [confirmed by al-Ghad], source from the Iraqi interior Ministry said that instruction issued from the Iraqi Islamic Council [Revolution] led by al-Hakim to the all Badr Brigades head quarters to hide all their heavy weapons such as mortars and R,B.G in secret places for the fair of sudden raids from the [...]

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Baghdad - Iraqi’s interior ministry executed 28 criminals and militant cult members in the city of Basra, some 550 kilometres south of Baghdad, media reports said on Monday.
Abdul-Karim Khalaf, department chief in the ministry, told the Iraqi al-Sabah newspaper that the ministry had on Sunday carried out the 28 verdicts issued by Iraq’s central criminal [...]

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LONDON, April 14 (KUNA) — Two servicemen from the British Royal Air Force (RAF) Regiment have been killed in a roadside blast in southern Afghanistan, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed Monday.
The pair died during the explosion in Kandahar Province on Sunday 13 April, the MoD said.
Two other service personnel were injured in the [...]

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KABUL, April 14 (KUNA) — The US-led coalition and Afghan troops have arrested four militants of an anti-America group linked to Taliban, officials here said on Monday.
The four detainees are members of the “Haqqani” group, said a statement from the US’ Bagram base here. The raid on their hideout was conducted in the southeastern Khost [...]

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BAGHDAD, April 7 (KUNA) — US forces on Monday killed and arrested five Iraqi people allegedly working with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the US army said.
In a morning crackdown, US forces stormed a building in Baghdad to hunt an Iraqi cell for allegedly collaborating with Al-Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and for delivering [...]

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BAGHDAD, April 8 (KUNA) — A US soldier serving with the Multi-National Force (MNF) was killed when an improvised explosive device detonated hitting his vehicle, according to a statement by the coalition force on Monday.
The MNF said the soldier, a member of the battalion of the coalition force in Baghdad, was killed in a blast [...]

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