Indonesia's most-wanted terror mastermind, Malaysian-born Noordin Mohammad Top, was killed during a raid on an Islamic militant base in Central Java on Thursday, the country's national police chief has confirmed.
Indonesian police said they are "90 percent (certain)" that Noordin Mohammed, a terror mastermind from the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) group was among four killed during a raid by police on a suspected Islamic militant base in central Java.
At least 43 people were killed and more than 50 wounded on Saturday as south Sudanese troops moved in to halt a raid on a settlement's cattle. The UN says inter-tribal violence has seen a sharp increase across the country's autonomous south.
Somalia's militant al Shabaab group on Monday raided the offices of three United Nations agencies operating in the Horn of Africa nation, after banning their activities and claiming that they were "enemies of Islam and Muslims".
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Sunday that a US raid in which a policeman and a woman were shot dead was a "breach" of the US-Iraq security pact. The US military has said that the pre-dawn attack was "approved by the Iraqi government".
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels launched separate air raids Tuesday with single-engine propeller-driven planes, setting a power station ablaze in the capital Colombo and hitting an army base, according to the military.
The Syrian cabinet reportedly ordered the institutions closed in reprisal for a US raid on a village near the Iraqi border Sunday which Damascus says killed eight civilians. It also formally protested to the UN Security Council.
A shadowy group calling itself the "Fedayeen of Islam" has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack against Islamabad's Marriott hotel in an audio tape broadcast by Al Arabiya television.
The Pakistani interior ministry has reported that President Asif Ali Zardari and PM Yousuf Raza Gilani were meant to be dining at the Marriott hotel on Saturday, the night that a suicide attack killed dozens. The hotel denied the claim.
Pakistani and US intelligence officials said Saturday's bomb explosion in Islamabad, which left at least 53 dead and hundreds more wounded, bore the marks of Taliban and al Qaeda fighters.
