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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Lebanon observed the bombing Syria in border town

The military will take action that is necessary to monitor the border with neighboring countries.
Beirut (Reuters)-Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Miqati, on Wednesday (20/3), appointing Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour to follow developments in the bombing of the small town of Lebanon by Syria's border.

After a cabinet meeting, Lebanese Minister of information Walid Daouk told reporters the Lebanese security services have confirmed Syria's army has been waging air strikes against Lebanese territory, according to the Xinhua report, Thursday.

Miqati said in that meeting, "the military will take action that is necessary to monitor the border with neighboring countries."

On Tuesday, President Michel Suleiman instructed Mansour to send a letter of protest to Syria, hoping to prevent "the Syria reiterated that such operations".

But Damascus, in his first comments about the attack, denied involvement in the incident.

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Thursday, March 7, 2013

Suicide bombing kills three policemen in Mosul, Iraq

Mosul, Iraq (Reuters)-Three suicide bomb attacks against checkpoints in Mosul, Northern Iraq, killing three police on Thursday night, police sources said.

The violence was part of a wave of attacks that fueled concerns about the return of violence between groups of people after the withdrawal of u.s. troops from Iraq by December 2011.

According to police sources, two of the three suspects crashed their car into the checkpoint.

On 14 February, which generally attacks aimed at security forces in northern Iraq, including Mosul, killing seven people.

There is no party that claimed responsibility for the attacks, but Sunni guerrillas often launch such attacks in an attempt to destabilize the Government and encourage the return of sectarian violence like in 2005-2008.

Violence is the last of a wave of bombings and suicide attacks in the middle of a political crisis between Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his Government partners and protest marches over the past few weeks demanding his resignation.

Iraq is engulfed in political chaos and violence that killed thousands of people since u.s. forces completed a withdrawal from the country on 18 December 2011, leaving security responsibilities to Iraq troops.

In addition to having problems with the Kurds, Iraq's Government is also at odds with Sunni groups.

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (Shiite) since December 2011 sought the arrest of Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on charges of terrorism and attempting to dismiss Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-absolute. Both are Sunni leaders.

The scholars warn that Maliki is encouraging sectarian divisions, and protestors gathered in the streets of Iraq by carrying banners in support of the Government and criticized Hashemi.

Iraq officials issued an arrest warrant for Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on December 19, 2011 after they gain recognition that connect him with terrorist activity.

Dozens of guards of Hashemi, a Sunni Arab leader, was arrested in a few weeks after the announcement, but it is not clear how many people were now on hold.

Hashemi, who denied the allegations, was hiding in the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, and Kurdish leaders refused to pass them to Baghdad.

The Kurdish government even allowed the regional visit to Hashemi did Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, according to Reuters.
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Friday, March 1, 2013

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Hazara Shiite community following the funeral victim bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, Monday (14/1). (REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed)

Quetta, Pakistan (Reuters)-officials denouncing the security forces of Pakistan province on Sunday after the bombing of the Shia Hazara community, killing 80 people in the Northwest of the town, Quetta.

"The terrorist attacks on the Shia Hazara community in Quetta is password and security failure," said Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi, Governor of the province of Baluchistan, when organizing the hospital.

"We give freedom to the security to act against the terrorists and the Group hard, but Quetta incident happened," he said.

The number who perished as a result of the bombing on Saturday night rose to 80 people, with most of the victims were in the city's main bazaar, the capital of Baluchistan, near the border with Afghanistan.

Most of the dead were citizens of Hazara, Shia tribal groups. High security officials said that number could rise as 20 people were seriously injured.

The Pakistani Government, which is not favored over various issues, such as poverty and electricity outages, ahead of the election predicted in the coming months, increasingly hard pressed to pursue Sunni pegaris, who consider Shiites not a Muslim.

A spokesman for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Sunni, claimed responsibility for the bomb in Quetta, which is also causing casualties near the school and the computer center.

LeJ also stated was behind bombings in the past month in Quetta, which killed almost 100 people, one of the worst school attack in Pakistan.

Shia political institutions called for a strike in Quetta to denounce the latest massacre. Many shops and bazaars are closed. Relatives who were injured responding to a request by the hospital's blood.

Officials said Pakistan hard group password command bombings and shootings increase LeJ against Shiites to spark violence, which will pave the way for a Sunni theocracy in Pakistan, an ally of United States.

More than 400 people dead in Pakistan's Shiites in the past year, many of them by gunmen or bomb. Some hard-line Shiite group retaliated by killing Sunni clerics.

The split with Sunni Shia evolved after the Prophet Muhammad died in 632, when his followers disagree over his successor.
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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Suicide bombing kills eight people in northern Iraq

Mosul, Iraq (Reuters)-a suicide car bomb Attack killed eight people at a military checkpoint in the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, Monday, said police and hospital sources.

The attack, which took place in Mosul, 390 kilometers north of Baghdad, also wounding eight people, including six soldiers, Reuters reported.

"An explosion that destroys everything. It seems like there isn't anything here before the explosion, "said a policeman at the scene who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

There is no party that claimed responsibility for the attack, but Sunni guerrillas often launch such attacks in an attempt to destabilize the Government and encourage the return of sectarian violence like in 2005-2008.

The bombing showed an increase in attacks in the midst of a political crisis between Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his Government partners and protest marches over the past few weeks demanding his resignation.

Iraq is engulfed in political chaos and violence that killed thousands of people since u.s. forces completed a withdrawal from the country on 18 December 2011, leaving security responsibilities to Iraq troops.

In addition to having problems with the Kurds, Iraq's Government is also at odds with Sunni groups.

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (Shiite) since December 2011 sought the arrest of Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on charges of terrorism and attempting to dismiss Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-absolute. Both are Sunni leaders.

The scholars warn that Maliki is encouraging sectarian divisions, and protestors gathered in the streets of Iraq by carrying banners in support of the Government and criticized Hashemi.

Iraq officials issued an arrest warrant for Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on December 19, 2011 after they gain recognition that connect him with terrorist activity.

Dozens of guards of Hashemi, a Sunni Arab leader, was arrested in a few weeks after the announcement, but it is not clear how many people were now on hold.

Hashemi, who denied the allegations, was hiding in the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, and Kurdish leaders refused to pass them to Baghdad.

The Kurdish government even allowed the regional visit to Hashemi did Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. (M014)



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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Thousands flee Philippine bombing

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25 October 2011 Last updated at 13:46 GMT MILF rebels on patrol in the southern Philippines in September Philippines authorities say they are targeting a rebel faction of the MILF rebel group Thousands of Filipinos have fled an army offensive against Muslim guerrillas and criminal gangs in the south of the country.

The armed forces said they had launched air strikes for a second day on what they called a renegade faction of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

More than 10,000 people fled homes in three remote towns in Zamboanga Sibugay province, officials said.

Spokesmen said troops had encountered heavy resistance on the ground.

More than 20 soldiers have been killed in the fighting in recent days, with President Benigno Aquino under pressure formally to suspend a ceasefire agreement.

AFP news agency quoted MILF rebels as denying they were sheltering lawless elements, and reaffirming their commitment to peace talks.

The group has been involved in sporadic peace talks with the government since 2003 and has agreed a ceasefire in 2008.

'Streams of people'

About 10,800 residents have fled three towns in Zamboanga Sibugay on Mindanao island, officials say, as hundreds of troops and police, bomber planes and naval gunboats attempt to flush out about 120 holed-up gunmen.

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Just to the south, a further 6,000 villagers had fled from al-Barka and outlying towns in Basilan island, Associated Press news agency quoted an official as saying.

"We have monitored streams of people moving to safer areas, away from the conflict zones," Adriano Fuego, head of the regional civil defence office, said according to Reuters news agency.

He said many of the displaced families were staying in schools and government buildings and appealed for food, water and other supplies.

But soldiers were encountering heavy resistance, security spokesmen said.

They said two soldiers had died along with six gunmen on Monday.

Mr Aquino says the current military action is aimed at those behind the deaths of 19 soldiers killed on the island of Basilan last week, and three others who died over the weekend, along with five plantation workers.

MILF has distanced itself from the armed band currently being targeted by the military.

The group's spokesman Von Al Haq urged an end to the offensive, saying it was displacing civilian supporters of MILF and endangering the peace process, AP news agency said.

Fighting in the southern Philippines has been continuing for more than 30 years and has cost tens of thousands of lives.

Another group, the Islamist militant Abu Sayyaf, has continued activities including bombings, kidnappings and other attacks while MILF has been on ceasefire.



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