PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 19, 2008 (Reuters) A suspected U.S. drone aircraft fired two missiles at a house in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing five suspected militants, possibly including an Arab al Qaeda operative, intelligence officials said. ... > full story
KABUL, Nov. 13, 2008 (Reuters) A suicide car-bomber attacked a convoy of U.S.-led troops as it passed through a market in Afghanistan Thursday killing a U.S. soldier and 10 bystanders, the U.S. military said. ... > full story
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 13, 2008 (Reuters) Gunmen abducted an Iranian diplomat in Peshawar on Thursday, a day after a U.S. aid worker was shot dead in the city on the front line of an Islamist insurgency sweeping northwest Pakistan and parts of Afghanistan. ... > full story
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 12, 2008 (Reuters) Gunmen killed a U.S. aid official Wednesday outside his home in Peshawar, police said, the Pakistani city that has borne the brunt of an Islamist insurgency spreading from tribal lands bordering Afghanistan. ... > full story
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 11, 2008 (Reuters) A blast went off outside a stadium in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, soon after a sports tournament had ended, causing some casualties, police said. ... > full story
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 4, 2008 (Reuters) Alaska Gov. and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was cleared on Monday of wrongdoing in an abuse-of-power investigation into the firing of the state's public safety commissioner. ... > full story
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2008 (Reuters) An insurgent attack that killed nine U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and nearly overran a NATO outpost was carried out with the aid of two local Afghan government officials, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. ... > full story
BOSTON, Oct. 31, 2008 (Reuters) A gunman took 11 children hostage at a school in Maine on Friday but was tackled by police after surrendering his gun to a child without firing a shot, local media reported. ... > full story
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct. 31, 2008 (Reuters) A suicide bomber killed nine people on Friday in an attack on police in the northwestern Pakistani town of Mardan. ... > full story
GUWAHATI, India, Oct. 31, 2008 (Reuters) Eleven bomb blasts in quick succession ripped through the main city of India's troubled northeastern Assam state and three other towns on Thursday, killing at least 68 people and wounding 335, police said. ... > full story
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