The U.S. embassy in Kabul has been on lockdown in the wake of widespread protests in multiple Afghan cities over disrespectful burning of Islamic scripture Koran, which the U.S. military said was caused inadvertently.
Somalia is not the only country known for inflicting such horror on children. During a period of intensified Palestinian–Israeli violence that started in 2000, gunmen surrounded themselves with children while shooting on Israeli forces. Various other reports have also suggested that the Taliban used women and children from their own communities as human shields against coalition forces around the year 2006.
Several people were wounded on Wednesday, witnesses said, when shots were fired as hundreds of angry Afghans gathered in a second day of violent clashes after copies of the Koran, Islam's holy book, were burned at NATO's main base in Afghanistan.
Thousands of enraged Afghans rallied outside Bagram Air Base on Tuesday, incensed by reports that American personnel had burned Qurans and other Islamic texts.
Four American special operations soldiers were killed over the weekend when their aircraft crashed in Djibouti as it returned from a mission.
Three other masterminds of the Bali bombings, Imam Samudra, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim and Ali Ghufron, were executed in 2008.
The crowd also assailed the leaders of Pakistan’s and Afghanistan’s civilian governments.
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A member of the Pakistan Taliban, Fazal Saeed, took responsibility for the bombing.
In a curt five-minute statement at the Bellevue presidential palace, Wulff said he had lost the trust of the German people, making it impossible to continue in a role that is meant to serve as a moral compass for the nation.
The U.S. military needed a better way to kill flies on the battlefield and researchers think they found it: use blue.
The United States and Afghanistan have begun laying the groundwork for peace talks with the Taliban, multiple outlets have reported.
The Afghan Taliban rejected on Thursday claims by President Hamid Karzai that the U.S. and Afghan governments had begun exploratory three-way talks with the Islamist group aimed at reaching a peace deal to end the 10-year Afghan war
Indian parents pressure their children to succeed in academics and to shun 'frivolous' pursuits like sports, arts and music
Thai investigators believe they have found a link between this week's bomb blasts in Bangkok and New Delhi, a senior security official said on Wednesday, two of three botched attacks Israel has blamed on Iran.
One frequent criticism of the Occupy movement was its lack of coherence in formulating demands. Today, the 99 Percent Declaration puts an end to those assertions.
Sean’s father Oliver is Jewish, while his mother is Christian.
India's determination to pursue trade with Iran despite Western sanctions could be undermined as wary exporters back away from fresh deals following a bomb attack in New Delhi blamed on Tehran, a trade association chief said on Tuesday.
Straws in the wind indicate that a non-war option does not hold much water in the current situation. Obviously there are two non-war options, but both look disappointingly implausible. They are: 1) Iran should retreat from its nuclear enrichment process and activities the West alleges are intended to make an N-bomb and 2) Israel, the West and Iran's pathological foes in the Arabian Gulf should live with a nuclear Iran. Both of these options are impractical.
