Gunmen stormed the Mayo Hospital Surgery Unit and got free an under-treatment detainee, police admitted on Saturday. The assailants tortured the on-duty policemen and took away their official guns. A police officer said Athar had been arrested in connection with double murder and he was also wanted ...

Gunmen on Thursday killed the driver of a NATO supply truck driving through northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, local officials said.The shooting took place in the Jamrud area of Khyber. "Two gunmen on a motorcycle fired at a NATO truck and killed its driver," local government official ...

BAGHDAD : Gunmen armed with silenced weapons shot dead 12 people at alcohol shops in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, security and medical officials said.The gunmen, who were travelling in four vehicles, restrained federal policemen at a checkpoint in the Zayouna area of west Baghdad, an interior ...

KANO, Nigeria : Gunmen from a shadowy cult ambushed a group of police officers in central Nigeria, killing 23 of them and then setting fire to their bodies, the state's police chief said Thursday."A detachment of 60 police... came under attack from members of Ombatse cult in an ambush," Nassarawa ...

TRIPOLI Gunmen in Libya’s Tripoli kept up their siege of ministries on Monday despite the adoption of a law to purge Gaddafi-era officials from their posts, with some demanding the government’s resignation. Different groups at the justice and foreign ministries, however, failed to reach ...

  TRIPOLI: Gunmen surroundedLibya’s foreign ministry on Sunday demanding it be “cleansed of agents” and ambassadors of ousted dictator Moamer Kadhafi, an official said. The group prevented staff from entering the building inTripoli, said the ministry official who spoke to AFP ...

KANDAHAR:Gunmen have released nine mine clearers held hostage for four days in Afghanistan's restive southern province of Kandahar, officials said Saturday. The men, all Afghans, were being driven back from a minefield on Monday when they were seized in Maiwand district, provincial spokesman Jawid ...

SANAA  - Suspected Al-Qaeda militants shot dead a Yemeni intelligence officer overnight in Mukalla, capital of the southeastern Hadramawt province, a security official told AFP on Saturday."Al-Qaeda gunmen on a motorbike opened fire on the officer Ibrahim Bameshel as we was on his way back ...

COLOMBO  - Gunmen opened fire and torched the office of the main Tamil newspaper in northern Sri Lanka on Saturday, police said, the latest in a string of attacks on the nation's privately owned media.Three men staged the pre-dawn arson attack on the Uthayan newspaper's office and printing ...

KIRKUK (AFP) - Gunmen killed an anti-government protest organiser in north Iraq on Sunday, while a city council member and a farmer were shot dead in other attacks, police and doctors said. Unknown gunmen shot dead protest organiser Bnayan Sabar al-Obeidi in front of his house in the northern city ...

NAIROBI - Gunmen stormed a Kenyan mosque near the border with Somalia killing seven people including women, police said. The attack occurred in Malleley near the border town of Liboi when “heavily armed men stormed a mosque and shot at people indiscriminately,” a cop said. “Five ...

KANO  - Gunmen believed to be from extremist group Boko Haram opened fire at a market in volatile northeastern Nigeria, killing 18 people, a local official. "Some gunmen came into the market yesterday afternoon and opened fire on a group of hunters," local chief Abba Ahmed told journalists. ...

ISLAMABAD  - Gunmen kidnapped seven soldiers from a bus near Rawalpindi on Wednesday, military officials said, just days after Taliban forces executed 21 pro-government paramilitaries they had seized.The gunmen took the seven soldiers and let go a sweeper on the bus with them, one military ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead an Islamic cleric in the internal Russian republic of North Ossetia, investigators said on Thursday, an attack that suggests militant violence in Russia’s southern Muslim provinces is spreading to nearby regions. Shootings and bomb attacks on police and ...

QUETTA - At least three passengers were shot dead and another sustained injures when gunmen attacked two passenger buses in Machh area of Kachi district, some 40 kilometers southeast of Quetta, on Thursday night.According to Balochistan Levies sources, two passenger coaches were heading towards ...

TRIPOLI - Gunmen killed two army officers on Sunday in a Libyan town that was one of the last strongholds of Moamer Kadhafi’s regime before his overthrow and killing last year, the military said. Captains Mohamed al-Zarruk and Ahmed al-Haj Mohamed were killed when reinforcements were called ...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Gunmen armed with silenced weapons attacked a house in east Baghdad on Tuesday, killing a man, his wife and four children, a security official and a medic said. The attack took place in the Zayouna area, an interior ministry official said, adding that the motive for the crime was ...

TARMIYAH  - Gunmen armed with silenced weapons attacked a house in a town north of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing seven members of a family, including three young children, security officials and a medic said. Two members of the family, including one of the dead, belonged to the anti-Qaeda ...

SANAA - A Saudi diplomat and his bodyguard were killed when their car was raked with gunfire by unidentified assailants in Yemen’s capital Wednesday, a diplomatic source and the kingdom’s foreign ministry said.“Gunmen dressed in the central security forces’ uniforms opened ...

KHYBER AGENCY - A driver of a Nato container and a volunteer of a local peace militia were killed in separate incidents in different parts of Khyber agency on Tuesday. The driver of the container, Khanbaz Shenwari, was shot dead and his assistant sustained injuries when militants opened fire on his ...

At least three persons were killed and two others injured when unknown gunmen opened fire at them here in Turbat on Sunday.According to details, unidentified armed assailants opened fire at people waiting for van of concerned routes in Mand area of Turbat.The attackers managed to flee from the ...

PESHAWAR - Gunmen shot dead two members of an anti-Taliban peace committee in Swat valley, police said Friday.The shooting will heighten fears of a campaign of targeted killings in Swat, as in the last four months, two businessmen and outspoken anti-militant campaigners have been shot dead and two ...

MOGADISHU - Gunmen shot dead a Somali journalist in the northern town of Lasanod, the latest of a string of murders targeting reporters and taking the toll of those killed this year to 16, colleagues said Wednesday. Ahmed Farah Ilyas, who was working with the London-based independent Universal ...

DUBAI - Unidentified gunmen shot dead a senior Yemeni security official employed by the US embassy in Sanaa in a hit-and-run attack on Thursday, a security official and a US diplomat said.Qassem Aqlan was shot dead by gunmen on a motorbike as he drove along Sittin Street, a main artery of the ...

Unidentified gunmen attacked a container, carrying supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan, and injured its driver and his cleaner, police said Saturday. According to details, an oil tanker after supplying oil to NATO forces was traveling to Karachi from Quetta for Afghanistan when some unknown ...

Gunmen shot dead nine policemen and prison staff as they slept in Lahore on Thursday, the second attack on security forces in the country's political heartland since Islamabad reopened a NATO supply corridor.The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the dawn raid, in which police said 10 ...

Gunmen killed 16 people and wounded dozens when they opened fire and hurled grenades into two churches in the eastern Kenyan town of Garissa on Sunday, officials said, in the latest in a string of attacks. In apparently coordinated attacks, they burst into churches targeting worshippers as they ...

QUETTA - Unidentified gunmen killed an SP in the provincial capital on Tuesday. According to them, CID SP Shah Nawaz Khan was on his way after his morning walk when armed men attacked him at Satellite Town, wounding him critically. He was rushed to hospital but he succumbed to injuries. ...

QUETTA -A Christian was shot dead in Quetta on Tuesday while two labourers were kidnapped from Dhadar area.According to police, Hyrak Maseeh was on his way on Samungly Road when unidentified armed men attacked him, wounding him critically.He breathed his last on his way to hospital. Police handed ...

TOULOUSE, France  - French investigators scoured the Internet in search of potentially grim footage Tuesday after witnesses said a gunman was wearing a video camera as he murdered Jewish school children.News that the mystery serial killer, who is being hunted for three shootings including ...