The Obama administration is considering expediting aid to Pakistan, where militants are advancing on the capital and posing a threat to a cluster of strategic installations, including a major dam, a key bridge and the country's largest weapons and ammunition complex. Pakistani military analysts say militants could bring normal life to a halt in a large part of Pakistan if they move against the Tarbela dam. The world's largest earthen dam, it is located on the Indus River about 30 miles northwest of the capital in the districts of Swabi and Haripur.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Gaza militants threatened Saturday to fire longer-range rockets and target larger Israeli communities after five Hamas members were killed in an Israeli airstrike. A spokesman for the Islamic Jihad group said its engineers are trying to produce local copies of Russian-made 122mm Katyusha rockets, which have a reach of up to 19 miles, or halfway from Gaza to Tel Aviv.
Truck drivers' employers told to leave country in latest kidnappings
Ahead of tonight's opening ceremonies for the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, much of the action in the Chinese capital has little to do with sports. Terror threat
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- A Palestinian militant group warned an American delegation Tuesday not to visit the Palestinian territories, accusing the United States of bias in favor of Israel. Hours later, some group members backed down from the veiled threats. Meanwhile, Israel prepared to take down an unauthorized outpost in the West Bank. Israeli security sources said Hazon David is one of several such outposts to be dismantled ahead of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's trip to the United States next month.
Taliban-linked militants threatened Saturday to execute three foreign U.N. workers kidnapped in Kabul unless British troops withdraw from Afghanistan and Afghan prisoners are freed from U.S. custody in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Armed men kidnapped the three Annetta Flanigan of Northern Ireland, Filipino diplomat Angelito Nayan and Shqipe Habibi of Kosovo in Kabul on Thursday, stirring fears that Afghan militants were copying the bloody tactics of their Iraqi counterparts.
Militants threaten Israel JERUSALEM -- Palestinian militants inspired by al-Qaida posted a Hebrew-language threat on a radical Islamic website Thursday, vowing revenge for the deaths of two Gaza militants in an Israeli airstrike. It appeared to be the first time that one of the murky, al-Qaida-inspired groups in Gaza have issued a threat in Hebrew. The recording, posted by a group identifying itself as Ansar al-Sunna, came a day after an Israeli airstrike hit two senior members of the Army of Islam. Both groups are believed to be closely linked. Despite its amateur appearance, its presence on popular sites used by al-Qaida militants showed the ongoing efforts by groups in Gaza to link themselves with the global terror network. JERUSALEM - Israel insisted Thursday it would keep building ...
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Militants loyal to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said Saturday they have kidnapped three Turkish workers and threatened to behead them in 72 hours, heightening tensions as President Bush visited Turkey. In new violence, an explosion possibly from a car bomb ripped through downtown Hillah, a largely Shiite Muslim city south of Baghdad, killing 19 people and wounding around 40, the U.S. military said.
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Iraqi militants are threatening to kill a Turkish hostage in Iraq if his company does not withdraw from the country within three days, private NTV television reported, but the company said Thursday that it had already pulled out its staff to meet the demands of other kidnappers. NTV broadcast a video Thursday from a Turkish news agency showing Aytullah Gezmen, who has been missing for three weeks, sitting on a couch and displaying his Turkish passport to the camera.
WARRI, Nigeria Militants who kidnapped nine foreign oil workers in a flurry of attacks that forced a 20 percent cut in Nigerian crude exports vowed Sunday to escalate the violence, threatening to fire rockets at international oil tankers. Although the military said tankers in Nigerian waters were safe, the West African nation is reeling from militant attacks that blasted oil and gas pipelines Saturday, halting the flow of more than 500,000 barrels a day.
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