...5, 2009) Reporting from Bhakkar , Pakistan - The Mahsud tribesmen of South Waziristan don't hate the Taliban. But they hate what having Taliban fighters living among them has done to life in their mud-hut hamlets. The Taliban presence...

In this article: Taliban, Pakistan, Dera Ismail Khan, Swat, Pakistan, Bhakkar, Potato, Islam, and Jihad

...upcoming Climate Summit). Any audacious attacks on these spots (and in India ) would have given Lashkar-e-Taiba a position parallel to Al Qaeda in the international terrorism arena. In June 2003, FBI made a similar breakthrough arresting at...

In this article: LeT, Federal Bureau of Investigation, India, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Pakistan, Al Qaeda, Chicago, and Washington

...missing soldiers. The soldiers, who had been transporting supplies, were reported missing earlier on Friday and the Taliban said they were holding the bodies of two drowned foreign soldiers. The Islamist militants' spokesman, Qare Yousuf ,...

In this article: Taliban, United States, NATO, Afghanistan, Abdul Jabar, and U.S. Navy

...wrench into the shuddering machinery of a "peace process" that is deadlocked. But with the Palestinians deeply split between Fatah and the Hamas movement, some analysts doubt there will be an election in January. The EU diplomat also noted...

In this article: Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah, Israel, Marwan Barghouthi, Barack Obama, West Bank, and Americans for Peace Now

...destroying civilian infrastructure during its Gaza offensive. It also found there was evidence that Palestinian militant groups - including Hamas , which controls Gaza - had committed war crimes, and possibly crimes against humanity, in their...

In this article: United Nations, Israel, Richard Goldstone, Security Council, Gaza, Palestinian militant groups, Hamas, Ban Ki-moon, and US

... Manmohan Singh told reporters here. He was responding to a question over a terror plot allegedly hatched by the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT ) to attack India involving David Coleman Headley , a US citizen, and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a Pakistan -born...

In this article: Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Manmohan Singh, India, EU, FBI, Afghanistan, P. Chidambaram, and Jose Manuel Barroso

...arrested in Pakistan ," home minister P Chidambaram told reporters in Hyderabad about the plot which was foiled with the arrest of the LeT operative by the FBI last month. He was asked if there was any input on Pakistan 's link to the plot...

In this article: Lashkar-e-Taiba, P Chidambaram, Pakistan, FBI, National Defence College, Manmohan Singh, Chicago, New Delhi, and US

...by a vote of 114-18, with 44 abstentions and 16 countries not voting. </p><p>Israel launched its offensive against Gaza 's militant Hamas rulers in an attempt to halt years of rocket fire at Israeli towns. The fighting killed 13...

In this article: Gaza, Israel, UN, Security Council, Palestinian militants, Hamas, and United States

...Shalev, Israeli Permanent Representative to the UN It also found there was evidence that Palestinian militant groups including Hamas , which controls Gaza , had committed war crimes, and possibly crimes against humanity, in their...

In this article: United Nations, Gaza, Israel, Security Council, EU, Richard Goldstone, and Allegation

...was elected president of the Palestinian Authority in January 2005 in a landslide victory. * His Fatah movement was defeated by Islamist Hamas in a surprise general election upset in January 2006. * Abbas, whose original four-year term...

In this article: Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah, Yasser Arafat, Israel, Hamas, Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Barack Obama

...Ireland still threatened by the republicans? No says the IMC. In fact, the Provisional IRA has disarmed and disbanded. The Irish National Liberation Army has declared that "armed struggle is over" and promised to decommission.

In this article: Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein, Good Friday, Irish National Liberation Army, Hillary Clinton, and UDA

...responsibility for this incident," Mr Brown told MPs in the Commons on Wednesday. "It may be that the Taliban have used an Afghan police member or they have infiltrated the Afghan police force and that is what we've got to look at," he...

In this article: Taliban, Afghan National Police, Afghanistan, Afghan army, Gordon Brown, UK, and Royal Military Police

...within the local community". PSNI Inspector Jon Burrows has promised to "take on" the group and dismantle them. "Groups like RAAD and INLA that carry out these attacks play into the hands of drug dealers and rapists as officers can't...

In this article: INLA, Belfast, Glasgow, and Scotland

Thousands of rockets have been fired from Gaza since 2001 The Palestinian militant group Hamas has test-fired a rocket capable of reaching Tel Aviv from Gaza , Israel 's head of military intelligence has said. Maj-Gen Amos Yadlin told a...

In this article: Hamas, Gaza, Palestinian militants, Israel, Mahmoud Abbas, Beersheba, Tel Aviv, and Ashkelon

...of sheltering militants from the larger Southeast Asian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah. An estimated 600 U.S. troops are stationed in the Philippines , mostly in the south to help Philippine troops fight the Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah.

In this article: Al-qaida, Abu Sayyaf, Jemaah Islamiyah, Basilan, Philippines, and U.S.

...can be wiped out in a period of 12 to 30 months. Around 25 lakh people live in areas where Maoists are now having a free run. The Naxalites have killed more than 2,600 people, including civilians, in 5,800 incidents in last three...

In this article: Naxal, P Chidambaram, Manmohan Singh, and New Delhi

...Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, nabbed by the FBI for planning to carry out a major terror attack in India at the behest of LeT , the US authorities have claimed. The FBI in its revised chargesheet filed before a Chicago court...

In this article: Lashkar-e-Taiba, FBI, Chicago, Pakistan, India, Yahoo group, US, and Hasan Abdal

The INLA has been on ceasefire for 11 years An Irish republican paramilitary group responsible for dozens of murders during Northern Ireland 's Troubles has renounced violence. The Irish National Liberation Army said its "armed struggle...

In this article: Irish National Liberation Army, Shaun Woodward, Northern Ireland, Irish Republican Socialist Party, and John de Chastelain