Suspected U.S. missile kills 2 militants SANAA, Yemen - A suspected U.S. drone aircraft fired a missile at a car in southern Yemen on Thursday, killing two brothers believed to be al-Qaida militants, said security and tribal officials.
KABUL, Afghanistan Militants with suicide vests, grenades and AK- 47 rifles attacked a luxury hotel on Monday, killing at least six people in a brazen attack on Western civilians in Kabul, witnesses and a Taliban spokesman said. N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the Norwegian foreign minister, who was not hurt, was the target of the assault, which came as the Norwegian embassy was holding a meeting at the Serena Hotel. Two State Department officials said at least one American was among the dead. A Norwegian journalist also died.
SANAA, Yemen - Yemen's political upheaval has emboldened suspected al-Qaida militants who have seized a provincial capital and now are operating openly in the lawless south, training with live ammunition and controlling roads with checkpoints. The U.S. fears the power vacuum will give even freer rein to al- Qaida's branch in Yemen - already the terror network's most active franchise. Yemen's government said Thursday that troops killed 12 suspected al-Qaida militants as part of a campaign to retake the southern city of Zinjibar.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - During the long Afghan winter, Taliban insurgents were apparently busy underground. The militants said they spent more than five months building a 1,050-foot tunnel to the main prison in southern Afghanistan, bypassing government checkpoints, watch towers and concrete barriers topped with razor wire.
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - Gunmen killed a senior Pakistani Taliban commander Monday who helped train and deploy the group's suicide bombers, while suspected U.S. drone missile strikes killed 20 alleged militants elsewhere in the northwest, Pakistani intelligence officials said. Shakirullah Shakir was riding on a motorcycle near Miran Shah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal area, when gunmen riding in a car with tinted windows shot him, the officials said.
REIM MILITARY BASE, Israel - Weeks after a new round of fighting with Gaza militants subsided, a senior Israeli military official said Sunday that Israel is ready and able to topple the territory's Hamas government, though it has no immediate plans to do so. The official also said Gaza militants have steadily built up an already formidable arsenal, in part with weapons smuggled out of Libya, and now have rockets capable of striking Tel Aviv, Israel's cultural and business hub.
Pakistan troops battle Taliban for drone debris DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - Pakistani soldiers are battling Taliban fighters in an attempt to seize debris from a suspected U.S. drone that crashed in a rugged tribal area near the Afghan border, Pakistani intelligence officials and militants said Sunday.
An American on trial in the torture of Afghan terrorism suspects in a private jail said Saturday in his first interview from custody that he was hot on the heels of Osama bin Laden and other militant leaders when he was arrested July 5. Jonathan Idema told The Associated Press he had official sanction from Afghans and Americans to hunt down terrorists and said he has been prevented from showing the evidence in court. Prosecutors say Mr. Idema was waging a private war, and he faces up to 20 years in a crumbling Afghan prison if convicted.
SANAA, Yemen - About 50 Yemeni troops went missing after a battle with al-Qaida-linked at a sports stadium in the country's increasingly lawless south, a military official said Saturday, describing a new setback for a weakened regime already facing an array of opponents. Meanwhile, President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been treated in a Saudi hospital since an attack on his palace a month ago, remains bedridden and has difficulty breathing and talking, Yemeni officials said, revealing new details about the extent of his injuries. His condition cast doubt on repeated claims by his aides that his return to Yemen is imminent.
SANAA, Yemen - Hundreds of Islamic militants cemented control over a town in southern Yemen on Sunday, even seizing army tanks, military officials said, while breakaway army units encouraged other military forces to switch their loyalties and join the uprising. The growing number of defections in the military posed the most serious threat yet to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's three-decade grip on his country.
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