Nigeria is battling a bloody insurgency launched by radical Islamist sect Boko Haram. The group want to overthrow the government and establish an Islamic state. In January, a string of attacks in the north of the country killed 185 people. As President Goodluck Jonathan confronts the violence in the town of Kano, tensions continue to simmer.
Significant soldier defections have cast attention on the anti-regime “Free Syrian Army”. But the fledgling rebel force is still far from being a match for the Syrian regular army.
A diplomatic war of words heated up Thursday after Pakistan’s chief of intelligence, Ahmed Shuja Pasha, said that any US military action against insurgents within its borders was unacceptable and could warrant an armed response.
Four gunmen and at least seven Russian police were reportedly killed in a shootout Thursday, in the turbulent North Caucasus region of Dagestan, where the Russian military is struggling to contain an Islamist insurgency.
At least 10 people travelling aboard a minibus were killed on Thursday when their vehicle was hit by a remote-controlled bomb in Turkey's southeastern province of Hakkari.
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Indian-controlled Kashmir's capital Srinagar on Saturday, setting fire to police and government buildings.
Five people were killed and 39 wounded when a suicide bomber blew up a car outside a military base in Russia's troubled Dagestan region. Authorities have been battling an Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus regions for several years.
At least 10 people were killed on Saturday when gunmen ambushed a bus in the south-western Pakistani province of Baluchistan, a region plagued by sectarian violence.
A much-awaited UN report released Tuesday said the number of civilians killed or injured in Afghanistan rose 31 percent in the first six months of 2010. About 76 percent of the casualties were by anti-government forces.
Despite increasing violence in Iraq, with July 2010 the bloodiest month in over two years, the United States will end its combat mission in the country on August 31 as scheduled, President Barack Obama confirmed on Monday.
