Posted by warvictims on September 29, 2008
By Borzou Daragahi
Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT – A car-bomb explosion struck a bus filled with Lebanese soldiers in the northern seaside city of Tripoli today, killing at least four people and wounding 30, including civilians, a Lebanese security official said. The bombing was the latest in a series of recent attacks in Lebanon and Syria that have unsettled the region, with Syrian officials today suggested evidence pointed to Islamic groups in Lebanon for a deadly weekend car bomb explosion in Damascus. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by warvictims on September 29, 2008
by BBC News
The UN’s refugee agency says 20,000 people have fled Pakistan’s tribal area of Bajaur for Afghanistan amid fighting between troops and militants.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees says almost 4,000 families have crossed into Afghanistan’s Kunar province.
Some 300,000 others have been displaced by fighting, although Pakistan says many have found shelter in the region. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by warvictims on September 29, 2008
by AFP
MOGADISHU (AFP) — Somali Islamist insurgents attacked African Union peacekeepers and government forces in the capital Mogadishu, and at least four people were killed in the clashes, witnesses said Monday.
Two civilians and a soldier died in an attack overnight near the presidential palace, Villa Baidoa, they said. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by warvictims on September 29, 2008
by The Associated Press
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Suspected Tamil separatists set off a bomb in a parking lot in Sri Lanka’s capital Monday, wounding three people a day after fighting in the country’s intensifying civil war killed 20 rebels and one soldier, the military said. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by warvictims on September 29, 2008
by AFP
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AFP) — At least six people were killed on Monday in a blast targeting a military bus on the outskirts of the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli, a security official told AFP.
“We have at least six people killed, three of them soldiers,” the official said. “We have about 30 other people injured.” Read the rest of this entry »
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