Tripoli, Libya: A Libyan security official says gunmen have stormed a luxury Libyan hotel popular with foreigners and have taken hostages after killing at least three guards.Essam Al-Naas, a spokesman for a Tripoli security agency,
Paris: Two days after his death, a video emerged Sunday of one of the Paris gunmen pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group, while his two fellow militants have claimed to be from al-Qaida—a fiercely
Baghdad: Gunmen killed three Sunni clerics near the mostly Shiite city of Basra in southern Iraq, a government spokesman said Friday, an apparent sectarian attack that drew immediate calls for calm.Interior Ministry spokesman Saad Maan
Los Angeles:Two men opened fire on a police car patrolling a tough part of Los Angeles, but the two officers inside were not injured and one was able to shoot back, authorities said Monday. One
Maiduguri, Nigeria :A new video from Nigeria's home-grown Boko Haram extremists shows gunmen mowing down civilians lying face down in a dorm, and a leader saying they are being killed because they are “infidels” or
Sanaa, Yemen: Suspected al-Qaida gunmen dressed in fatigues and riding in military trucks overran a key army base in eastern Yemen on Monday, security officials said, holding captive high-ranking officers and soldiers inside in the
Mexico City : Gunmen killed nine people, including a girl, at a house on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, a border city in northern Mexico, officials said Monday.The attack occurred around 10 p.m. Sunday while
Nairobi: Al Qaeda-linked Somali gunmen early Monday hurled grenades from inside Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall at security forces trying to rescue the remaining hostages, an eyewitness told Xinhua.The witness said nobody was injured in the
Nairobi: Sporadic gunfire could be heard from the Westgate mall in Nairobi on Tuesday morning as government forces pressed on to try to end a four day standoff with militants that killed 62 people.Kenyan special
Damascus: Al-Qaida militants in northern Syria captured a town near the Turkish border Thursday following heavy clashes with Western-backed rebels, prompting the closure of a nearby frontier crossing, activists and Turkish officials said. It was
Baghdad, July 1: Iraqi officials said Monday that eight pro-government, anti-al-Qaida Sunni militiamen were kidnapped and killed by gunmen north of the capital, Baghdad, the latest in a series of bold insurgent attacks to hit
Quetta, Mar 14: Gunmen abducted two female Czech tourists and their police guard as they were traveling on a bus through a troubled province in southwest Pakistan, the Czech foreign ministry and a Pakistani government
Islamabad, Dec 19: Gunmen staged fresh attacks on UN-backed polio vaccination teams in Pakistan, killing two more polio workers and wounding six in the country's northwest today, a day after six health workers were gunned
Islamabad, Dec 17: A senior government official and two policemen were killed in two separate shootings at Quetta city in southwest Pakistan today, officials said. Khadim Hussain, Deputy Director of the Public Relations Department, was
Abuja, Oct 14: At least 20 people were killed as gunmen opened fire on Muslim worshippers coming out of a mosque in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state today.The attack happened in a remote village called Dogo
Karachi, Jun 23: Motorcycle-borne gunmen today shot dead eight people at a laundry shop in a bustling commercial area of the restive southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, highlighting the growing lawlessness in the Baluchistan province.Initial
Kabul, April 15: Unfazed by the brazen attempt by heavily-armed Taliban gunmen to storm Parliament today, MPs were not found wanting and they joined security forces in firing on the militants.Parliament was in session when
Islamabad, Mar 29: Suspected militants today shot dead five members of the minority Shia community and two employees of a UN agency in two separate attacks in the restive Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan. Suspected
Sanaa, Feb 20: Gunmen attacked two polling stations and killed one soldier in Yemen's restive south Monday, one day before the country is to go to the polls to rubber stamp its vice president as
Beirut, Feb 11: Gunmen assassinated an army general in Damascus on Saturday in the first killing of a high ranking military officer in the Syrian capital since the uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime began
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