Afghan government plans to massively boost army and police numbers have been greeted with scepticism by diplomats and military experts who say the ...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that the United States will help Afghanistan prepare its military and police to take over ...
12 security forces killed in communist rebel ambush after attack on Philippine logging company Communist rebels killed 12 security forces when they responded to an attack on a logging company in the southern Philippines, the military said Friday. At least one rebel ...
Iran exile says major security changes designed to boost power of Khamenei An Iranian opposition leader said Thursday that the country is making sweeping changes to its security apparatus in an effort to consolidate the power of the elite Revolutionary Guard. Maryam ...
Local leaders in Ciudad Juarez have asked for UN peacekeepers to help stem the alarming bloodshed in their city that is chasing business across the border to Texas, their representatives have said. Despite the deployment of 8,500 troops since February, more than ...
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The last phone call Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar made before he was gunned down on a Medellin rooftop was to his son, and many thought Juan Pablo Escobar would follow in his father's footsteps. But 16 years ...
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters Life!) - The last phone call Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar made before he was gunned down on a Medellin rooftop was to his son, and many thought Juan Pablo Escobar would follow in his father's footsteps. But 16 ...
The Islamist Hamas movement ruling Gaza has banned all public commemoration of Yasser Arafat's death this year, officials with the rival secular Fatah group said on Tuesday. Wednesday will mark five years since Arafat, the revered Palestinian leader and founder of Fatah, ...
A Pakistani villager who fled tribal area of Waziristan due to fighting between security forces and militants, carries medicine provided at relief center in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. The operation in South Waziristan, the main Taliban and ...
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Security forces in Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested about 100 armed men blamed for killing dozens of policemen in an attack in the country's isolated north last month, the government said on Sunday. Villagers killed 47 policemen sent ...
UN says at least 50 peacekeepers punished by national authorities for sex abuses since 2007 At least 50 peacekeepers have received punishments ranging from reduction in military rank to eight months imprisonment for committing sexual abuses on United Nations missions since 2007, ...
AFP reporter Farhad Pouladi was detained by security force members in the centre of Tehran during a rally on Wednesday to mark the storming by students of the US embassy 30 years ago, witnesses said. He was detained at around 10:45 am ...
