At least 40 people are killed in an explosion at a mosque in north-western Pakistan’s Khyber tribal region, reports say.

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Dozens killed at Pakistani mosque

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Taliban fighters armed with rocket launchers attacked a security checkpoint in a northwest Pakistani tribal region where the army has staged anti-insurgent operations, sparking a clash that killed eight Pakistani soldiers and 10 militants, intelligence officials said Thursday. Hours later, a roadside bomb hit a passenger vehicle elsewhere in the northwest, killing four people, including a woman and a child, police said. The attacks underscored that militant groups along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan remain a lethal threat despite Pakistani army offensives against them, as well as U.S. missile strikes that target their hideouts. Read full article > >

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Officials: Militants attack security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, 18 people killed

At least twenty suspected militants were killed in Pakistan’s tribal region in what were described as a pair of American drone strikes, local media reported.

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Drone Strikes Kill 20 in Pakistan, Reports Say

At least 15 people are killed in a US drone strike in the Pakistani tribal area of North Waziristan, officials say.

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US drone ‘kills 15′ in Pakistan

CAIRO — Fighting between opposition tribesmen and security forces in Yemen’s capital escalated dramatically Friday, as the presidential palace was shelled, prompting reports that President Ali Abdullah Saleh had been wounded. Yemen’s state-run Saba news agency reported that Saleh was in “good health” after the attack and would soon make a televised speech. The rocket strike on the palace came after government forces reportedly attacked the homes of tribal leaders led by the powerful Ahmar family and military commanders who have joined the opposition, according to local news media. Read full article > >

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Yemen’s presidential palace struck as fighting intensifies

Yemen’s president and the country’s most powerful tribal leader have agreed a ceasefire after five days of fighting in the capital Sanaa, a mediator says.

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Yemen forces agree on ceasefire

Yemen degenerated further into bloody conflict as clashes beyond the capital drew in more tribal factions and threatened to widen the fighting.

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Airstrikes Reported East of Yemen Capital

Yemen’s government uses air strikes to target tribal forces opposed to President Saleh ahead of expected demonstrations, tribesmen say.

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Foreign Office urges Britons to leave Yemen as fighting escalates between government troops and tribal forces.

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The United States has ordered all non-essential diplomats and their family members to leave Yemen as the country spirals into civil war. At least 72 people have died there over the past three days in confrontations between tribal fighters and…

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U.S. Recalls Diplomats from Yemen

Sixteen people — including five children — died after an oil tanker carrying fuel for NATO exploded Saturday morning in Khyber Agency, a district of Pakistan’s volatile tribal region bordering Afghanistan, a government official said.

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Ahigh-level conference held three years ago warned that the language and culture of the Tsaatan, part of the dying Darkhad tribe, could vanish from Mongolia within the next decade. But on a bright April morning, three tribal girls streaked through the Central Asian taiga atop reindeer as white as the snow melting underfoot. The young herders steered their charges toward higher ground, whooping and giggling as if they were chasing a wind spirit. The threat of extinction had no place in this moment. Read full article > >

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Mongolia’s changing scenery

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — U.S. missiles killed at least five alleged militants Thursday in a tribal region along the Afghan border — the third such drone attack since the U.S. killing of Osama bin Laden, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The strike is evidence that the U.S. is not letting up on cross-border drone strikes into Pakistan despite Pakistani officials’ complaints that the United States violated its sovereignty by killing bin Laden on their soil. Even before bin Laden’s death, the drone attacks were a source of increasing tension in the now severely strained U.S.-Pakistan relationship. Read full article > >

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Pakistani officials: US drone strike kills at least 5 alleged militants near Afghan border

Libyan state TV shows Col Muammar Gaddafi meeting tribal leaders in Tripoli – in what would be his first public appearance in nearly two weeks.

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Libyan state TV shows Col Muammar Gaddafi meeting tribal leaders in Tripoli – in what would be his first public appearance in nearly two weeks.

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