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Witnesses said hooded militants infiltrated what had been a peaceful demonstration.

since september 11 , 2001 , biological weapons seem to have become the weapon of choice among the disenfranchised militants of the world.

General Petraeus said the threat from Sunni militants of al-Qaida in Iraq has been significantly reduced, but the group is still lethal.

Officials also acknowledged they must be ready to deal with threats from home-grown militants.

He said intelligence officials are already pursing leads that some of the militants had links to groups inside Pakistan.

David Fivecoat, calls it a necessary measure to stay a step ahead of the militants, and the Afghan news cycle.

Mr Abbas , sitting in the West Bank, did not declare a state of emergency until Hamas militants were ransacking his Gaza home.

Better-armed, better-trained forces were sent in large numbers into areas which had been seized by the militants.

This has prompted the militants to demand a more extreme form of Islamist rule and for sharia to be extended to the whole of Nigeria.

A Chinese official familiar with China's counter-terrorism planning said the well-funded militants were determined to disrupt the Olympics.

The initial U. S. investigation said the strike had killed at least 30 militants and between five and seven civilians.

"So far we've not had violations by militants of our facilities, " he said.

An Israeli mayor on the front lines of the conflict with the Palestinians is calling for a truce with Islamic militants.

They had to leave due to fighting between security forces and militants in the tribal area of Bajaur, along the Afghanistan border.

So they sort of dress it up in this sort of cleavage between the really bad and the less bad [militants], that that is the strategy.

While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, suspicion quickly fell on al-Qaida in Iraq as well as Sunni militants.

Instead, the militants appeared to be armed members of the southern separatist movement that also flourishes in the area, they said.

He did not answer directly, but he said Hamas militants must stop rocket attacks from Gaza into Israel.

Local officials in Nangarhar province said the victims were part of a wedding party and no militants were in the region.

Local security officials say the militants in the northern city not far from the tower Hu assembly, trying to control the city.

However, militants in Iraq continued to launch bloody attacks throughout the country, causing thousands of deaths and injuries this year.

At least eight soldiers are dead after what authorities in Thailand say was an attack by Islamic militants in the country's south.

He released a statement suggesting that both militants battling the Pakistani troops and coalition forces are now trying to weaken Pakistan.

Ille Yilmaz (Ismet Yilmaz) condemned on the matter, he said militants "in the test of our patience, we will reciprocate to launch revenge. "

Seven insurgents were shot dead in the fighting and an unknown number of other militants died in suicide blasts, he said.

White House spokesman, Jay Carney, said Pakistan must break any links it had with the militants, the Haqqani network.

He said the militants were apparently planning to attack a kibbutz collective farm or to kidnap a soldier.

He said it was possible the increase was a result of ceasefire deals agreed by militants and the Pakistani government.

After a 36-hour operation, army sources said the last militants had been killed or captured.

Officials say four militants have been killed in the fighting so far while two troops and a special police officer have also been killed.

Pakistan said the militants have suffered heavy losses and have been pushed over the border into Afghanistan.

In a statement, they assured people of their security, told them to stay and said there would be no hiding place for Boko Haram militants.

At least three suspected militants have been killed in a US drone attack in north-western Pakistan, officials say.

But, even if it makes the militants give up their captive, it may lack the authority over all the groups to make a ceasefire hold.

It has been battling up to 200 Islamic militants in a Palestinian refugee camp near the Mediterranean city of Tripoli.

Mr. Qureshi said it was too early to tell whether the militants had been weakened when the disaster cut off supply lines to the region.

Meanwhile Pakistan seems to be sending fewer militants into Kashmir these days.

He said UN staff vetted Palestinians seeking shelter at their facilities to make sure militants were not taking advantage of them.

Between the militants and the politics, the U. S. military and its allies have been looking for other ways into Afghanistan.

Aden security officials said the militants blocked the main highways and other roads, and engaged in sabotage and criminal activities.

The fighters shot their way inside the building, where one of the militants blew himself up, a police guard wounded in the blast said.

He said no militants were present and the victims were mainly women and children who were walking to a wedding party.

Certainly it has not proven to be a workable solution in the Niger Delta, where it has only served to toughen the militants.

Militants in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger delta have been tapping pipelines and illegally exporting crude for the best part of a decade.

The militants had occupied the hotel and made a final stand on the roof, suggesting that the casualty count could rise substantially.

He was one of nine militants killed on Friday night in South Waziristan.

He was asked about the inroads Taliban militants have been able to make in rural parts of Afghanistan .

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have declared a ceasefire and say they're giving Israeli forces one week to leave the territory.

He said such operations risked alienating local tribes whose support is vital for defeating Taliban militants.

Mehsud is a self-proclaimed commander of the Pakistani Taliban militants and is believed to be closely linked to the al-Qaida network.

The drive-by attack appeared to be a new tactic for the militants.

Authorities in southern Afghanistan say Taliban militants have publicly killed a young man and woman who tried to run away to get married.

The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said it had "targeted" seven militants in a gun battle.

Above three bodies of militants from Komal, an Ansar al Islam splinter group, are laid out on display following the assassination.

Containing the militants and driving a wedge between them and their local allies are important first steps.

Cry out for the salvation of key militants, key officials in Mali, and for the Gospel to reach every people group in this country.

Taleban militants in Afghanistan say they were targeting U. S. Vice President Dick Cheney when a suicide bomber struck the U.

He said an offensive in the north had pushed the militants back from a range where their mortars could hit civilian areas.

Pakistani officials say security forces have killed at least 460 al-Qaida-linked militants in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan.

The truce calls for Palestinian militants to stop firing rockets at Israel, and for Israel to open crossings into Gaza.

Residents said the militants raided houses in Afgoye where people were watching the matches.

The interior minister, Rehman Malik, then claimed that up to 700 Taliban militants had been killed in the fighting.

The illegal militants based house constructed with a reinforced concrete underground bunker last-ditch, to the police opened fire.

She says the best way for that to happen is for Hamas and other Palestinian militants in Gaza to stop firing rockets at southern Israel.

By attacking the physical infrastructure of his government, the militants are casting serious doubt on his ability to do that.

Tao Xide Department said the attack "enemies of peace" - Taliban militants - should do.

Thousands of civilians continue to flee the capital Mogadishu where the militants are battling against the transitional government.

Indian commandos are still battling militants holed up in a hotel in Mumbai.

In a ruthless onslaught in the heart of Kabul, militants attacked a large guesthouse favoured by United Nations workers.

The Russian capital has been repeatedly rocked by attacks over the last years blamed on militants from its Northern Caucasus region.

According to Pakistani military spokesman said the attack by militants blew up a US-made P-3C anti-submarine reconnaissance aircraft.

She said Pakistan will be looked upon to take a lead role in confronting militants.

NATO officials say up to 150 Taliban militants have been killed in Afghanistan during an overnight battle with NATO and Afghan forces.

He says militants there must put away their weapons for their own safety and that of the area's citizens.

Up to half the food aid in Somalia is diverted to corrupt contractors, local UN workers and Islamist militants, a leaked UN report says.

For the Mumbai attack, Indian police say LET trained 30 militants for more than a year, in three or four camps in Pakistan.

Boys like Owais neither trained in camps in Pakistan, nor are they stooges of the militants and spy agencies that have fuelled the war.

Over the weekend, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged Pakistan to crack down on militants.

In a statement posted on a website often used by militants, the Islamic State of Iraq said "martyrs . . . targeted the dens of infidelity" .

Officials said at the time that he was killed in a US missile attack along with at least 10 suspected militants.

A suicide bomb campaign waged by al Qaeda-inspired militants has added to a mounting sense of insecurity.

Years of unmanned U. S. drone airstrikes against Pakistan-based targets have killed both militants and civilians.

She called on Pakistan to take "decisive steps" to ensure that Afghan Taliban militants do not operate from Pakistan's border regions.

Officials said militants never took control of a drone or interfered with its flight.

U. S. officials say there is no evidence that militants were able to take control of the drones or otherwise interfere with their flights.

The militants still hold the main bit of the city.

But he acknowledged the militants had been offering stiff resistance to his soldiers from their network of tunnels and fortified compounds.

But most of the dislocated families have returned to their homes since the military declared the region cleared of militants in July.

Many blamed it on the army, which had made several truces with the militants in Malakand.

But to keep the militants out of the settlement zone, the army has blocked the Palestinian road to the sea.

A young settler on the beach said he understood what drove the militants.

Last week , President Karzai offered peace talks to Taliban militants who are prepared to renounce violence .

Two U. S. missile strikes Tuesday in Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal region of North Waziristan killed at least 24 suspected militants.

He said Israel was justified in taking action against Hamas militants in Gaza.

We had to rush to save our lives, for us it was panic, everybody was shouting, everybody was bracing slogan against the militants there.

At least 26 died in Lahore, where police clashed with militants who'd attacked a federal security building and two police training centres.

Militants were fleeing north, south, east, following trails into Pakistan all along the border with Pakistan and, for some, into Iran.

But at this point, denials about links with the militants are simply not credible.

A spokesman for the Afghan President Hamid Karzai has described the escape from prison of many Taliban militants as 'a disaster'.

They were probably organised by the same militants, or by their Islamist allies along the border with Afghanistan.

Abed - la said that in the next two days, Hamas militants have been forcing their family to stay downstairs.

Militants attacked a convoy of US and Pakistani troops in the north-west of Pakistan, killing up to 10 people, including three US soldiers.

militants carried out a gun and bomb attack near the American consulate in Peshawar, killing five.

Palestinian militants fired at least 12 rockets at Israel and Israeli warplanes targeted Hamas rocket launchers.

It follow threats by Taliban militants to deploy thousands of suicide bombers in retaliation for an army offensive .

The United States President-elect Barack Obama has called for a new approach to fighting militants in South Asia.

Syrian officials yesterday suggested they believed the attack was the responsibility of Islamist militants.

The militants, it was rumoured, meant to cut off the inky forefinger of anyone thus marked as having disobeyed their injunction.

Despite its importance, the Pakistani army is threatened by home-grown militants and with cutbacks in American financial support.

Up to 100000 civilians have fled Pakistan's South Waziristan because of a military offensive against Taliban militants, Reuters reported.

Palestinian militants in Gaza fired more than 50 mortar shells into Israel, the biggest barrage since the Gaza War two years ago.

More than one half million have fled since the recent fighting erupted between government forces and Taliban militants.

The U. S. military says Taliban militants often pressure villagers into claiming civilian casualties after air strikes.

Government troops and Taliban militants are currently locked in an ongoing fight for control of this region.

Pakistan has engaged in its own 'war on terror' against Islamist militants in the northwest part of the country.

Despite the widespread violence in Afghanistan by the Taliban and other Islamic militants, Percovich said he doesn't feel threatened.

The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab says it has taken control of the southern town of Afmadow without any resistance from rival militants.

Taliban militants have said they will not release the body of the Polish engineer unless their demands are met.

Three different senior Taliban militants have claimed to be the outfit's new boss, exposing the disarray the new leadership inherits.

Taliban militants Tuesday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at the UN World Food Program office in Islamabad on Monday.

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have carried out a deadly cross-border raid. The attack is likely to provoke Israeli retaliation.

Yet, though various militants were captured or killed, Bin Laden remained so elusive that some began to think that he was dead.

Another minister blamed India outright, saying that the militants had crossed the border between the two nuclear-armed rivals.

Xinhua reporters saw at the scene, armed helicopters circled over the scene in the fighting, militants opened fire on the ground.

But piecemeal operations of this kind have merely shunted al-Qaeda and other militants around the tribal areas.

Government attempts to make peace deals with the militants have failed to stop the fighting.

Unknown militants attacked the Kerem Shalom crossing this week, forcing Israel to close it for a couple of days.

Pakistani authorities say that 300 foreign militants had been arrested during the offensive.

A week after my meeting with the Hizbul Islam militants, I awoke to the sound of gunfire.

In exchange, Sufi Mohammad promised to persuade Taliban militants, led by his son-in-law Maulana Fazlullah, to lay down their arms.

In his weekly radio address, the president again accused militants of waging a campaign of violence against Israel.

The Obubra course began almost a year after the militants had laid down arms.

They say that most of the militants have retreated to mountains close to the Afghan border.

Kidnapping is a primary goal for militants given Israel's history of releasing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for a hostage.

A Chinese engineer held hostage for five months had also been released as a sign of good faith, the militants said.

After the government made overtures towards the Delta militants nearly a year ago, about eight months of relative peace ensued.

The groups, including Hamas and Fatah-linked al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades , say their militants will not be armed during the vote.

However, Punjab functions as an ideological nursery and recruiting ground for militants throughout the country.

Reports that the militants to "undercover" latent form within the military in Afghanistan, poised to strike, the events have increased.

The army claims the area is now mostly clear of insurgents, although soldiers continue to battle militants in nearby tribal areas.

Local militants were becoming more radical, following al-Qaida's teaching that the Pakistani state should be a target.

The US Embassy in India is warning that foreign militants may be planning to carry out attacks in New Delhi and Bombay in the coming days .

In one raid 5 missiles, the head of the official says it was a convoy vehicle carrying Taliban militants.

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the operation in which eight people, including three militants, were killed.

But as of Friday morning, a small number of militants still remained in parts of both hotels.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai says militants who use those bases to launch attacks across the border are his country's most serious threat.

Islamist militants in Mali have attacked one of the most famous mosques in the historic city of Timbuktu, residents say.

Meanwhile, the Taliban spokesman, Ahmadi, said militants would execute all hostages if the troops recklessly carried out a storm.

Last month, suspected militants detonated a car bomb outside Karachi's counter-terrorist police headquarters, killing at least 18 people.

Officials suspect militants set off the bombs Thursday at or near commercial banks in Yala's provincial capital and nearby districts.

U. S. troops in Iraq would give Iraqi government army more training to help them chase al-Qaida militants and protect law.

Gaza (CNN) -- With faces covered and guns loaded, Palestinian militants are training among the sand dunes of Gaza.

He added that US ground forces inside Afghanistan fired artillery toward the fleeing militants as they fled into Pakistan.

Even under a Democratic president America will take a harder line than Europe on al-Qaeda, Iran, Pakistan and Palestinian militants.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas swore in an emergency government Sunday and outlawed Hamas militants.

If India found that militants use to launch attacks on neighboring land as a platform, then the neighbors will be a negative price.

The bloodshed was linked to a planned offensive by the army against Islamist militants in the tribal area of South Waziristan.

Yemen's defense ministry says that three al-Qaida militants have been captured along the border with Saudi Arabia.

Nigerian police blame the raids in the town of Gombi on Islamist militants, who've been linked with a wave of violence in the region.

The drones have carried out at least 13 attacks so far this month, killing dozens of suspected militants.

The U. S. military is evacuating American and other foreign hostages held by Islamist militants at a gas complex in Algeria.

The Exact number [of militants] I don't have, but there may be a group of militants, said S. N. Acharya .

This makes messages posted on these sites official, and sows dissent and confusion among the militants.

The militants are clearly able to absorb the repeated losses of lower-level militants.

Privately, U. S. officials say they are skeptical about whether the appointment will translate into tougher action against the militants.

Taliban militants in Afghanistan have attacked government buildings south of the capital Kabul, just ten days before nationwide elections.

Hamas-affiliated militants on the Gaza side of the border have been turning people back and telling them it is closed.

But it hasn't done enough. The militants are agile and deeply rooted after enjoying years of free rein.

The checkpoint near the Orakzai tribal region in recent months has become a base for Taliban militants battling the Pakistani government.

Israel wants Hamas to stop militants from firing rockets into its territory and the smuggling of weapons into the seaside enclave.

The soldier was wearing civilian clothes, the police mistook him as anti-government militants.

Iraq and Syria have both recalled their ambassadors in a deepening rift over claims Damascus was harbouring militants who bombed Baghdad.

Commanders say the aim it to crack down on militants and criminals.

A few months later, militants disguised as soldiers detonated two car bombs outside the American Embassy compound here.

This seeks to win over the population by assuring their security, creating the conditions for stability and isolating militants.

Seven US men have been charged with conspiring to provide support to Islamic militants and conspiring to murder and kidnap people abroad.

He says five civilians, who were believed to be related to the militants, were among the 30 people killed in the strike.

The agency played a role in supporting insurgents in Kashmir and militants in Afghanistan during the Russian occupation of the country.

Mr. Bluemling's family expressed concern for his safety in a country where Islamic militants have sometimes attacked Westerners.

An Israeli army spokesman told the BBC that the bombs had been commandeered by Hamas militants.

The third drone attack within a week, the strikes have killed a total of 18 suspected militants.

Reported that roadside bombs are usually placed on Taliban militants, Afghan army or used against foreign troops in Afghanistan means.

Militants have launched a wave of attacks in response to a major army operation against their strongholds on the Afghan border.

The Pakistani government planned a new operation against Taliban militants in the Swat valley after the collapse of a peace deal.

On Friday an army spokesman said soldiers killed at least 32 militants in the latest fighting.

Eight people were killed in a gunfight between suspected militants and troops in the Samba sector of Indian administered Kashmir last week.

Officials from the Afghan police and intelligence agency denied the militants' claim, saying the document was a fake.

Israel says 30 of its troops have been wounded, two seriously and it claims to have killed or wounded dozens of Hamas militants.

As a result, says a senior military official, the militants aren't in a position to fight out in the open.

Violence in Anbar fell significantly after 2006, when local Sunni tribes began siding with the U. S. military to drive out militants.

The militants are considered to have freedom to operate in four of its ten parishes.

An army column in Tajikistan was ambushed by a party of Islamist militants, including fighters from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Chechnya.

Yemen has faced increasing unrest by militants seeking the re-establishment of southern Yemen as an independent state.

Fifty-two Palestinians died, at least half of them militants, as did 23 Israeli soldiers.

NATO's International Security Assistance Force said they were killed in air strikes, "a large number of" militants.

People lined the streets as the militants marched through the town swigging whisky, chanting and singing.

However, he says, an active Afghan police force was able to prevent the militants from causing serious damage.

A series of bombings and attempted bombings have been blamed on militants among the red shirts.

Officials say the strikes will not stop until the Palestinian militants halt rocket attacks against Israel.

Reduced Pakistani support for the militants is one reason for this, but war-weariness among Kashmiris is another.

The mere threat of encirclement, the army claims, frightened militants out of Mingora.

Two United Nations personnel have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in an attack by militants in the northwest of the country.

In recent months militants from the region have been linking up with the so-called Haqqani network in the Paktika-Khost-Paktia region.

So maybe when the militants were escaping back to the border, in engaging them a few rounds would have accidently gone across.

Hitherto, most have considered the army's war against the militants as a regrettable service to America.

Many accused the Egyptian government of not doing enough to prevent attacks on Christians by Muslim militants.

We retrieved our car and drove home, navigating police checkpoints, fearful of the militants we knew were still on the roads.

Most of the refugees have also returned to their homes, though some scattered resistance by the militants remains.

In its immediate aftermath, militants insisted Mr. Mehsud had left the compound minutes before the strike.

Although militants claimed responsibility for the explosion, a government probe found it was caused by a faulty turbine in the engine room.

But political analyst Nasim Zahra says sectarian violence is being used as a cover for al- Qaida- linked militants to sow more chaos .

The militants flooded in by the hundreds, startling Pakistani and American officials with the speed of their advance.

Gunmen have shot dead three policemen in Indonesia, in an attack officials linked to Islamist militants.

Fighting is continuing in one part of the base, where the authorities say they've surrounded the militants.

An Afghan policeman looks at the bodies of militants in a building they had occupied in their attack on the US Embassy in Kabul.

The military said it suspects many of the detainees, most of whom are believed to be from Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, are militants.

Some experts have said this could be a sign that militants are targeting people they see as 'collaborators.

Islamic militants have captured a remote military outpost in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border.

Islamic militants in Iraq and Afghanistan treat western journalists with ruthless hostility and often murder them in cold blood.

Pakistani militants had earlier vowed revenge on America and its allies for the killing of Osama bin Laden.

While insisting civilian losses have been minimal, the military has warned the communities that it doesn't pay to support the militants.

The army aims to make similar deals with militants in Bajaur and Mohmand, where it has been fighting fierce battles in recent months.

He reiterated that Pakistan does not plan to hold peace talks with Taliban militants.

For the past two years, Pakistani security forces have engaged in bitter fighting to rid the area of Islamist militants.

Those militants had been attacking Iraqi soldiers and also hit a crowded marketplace.

The militants are believed to be launching cross-border raids on U. S. and allied forces in Afghanistan.

Intelligence officials warned that the militants could target foreign-controlled gas stations, banks and food chains.

Past terrorist attacks have been traced to militants in the North Caucasus, a predominantly Muslim region in the south of Russia.

He stressed the threat posed by militants in the region is too great for the United States to pull out.

India is already the biggest donor of helicopters to the UN, while Pakistan is busy fighting militants in its tribal areas.

Gun barrel rule: Firepower is the measure of authority -- far too often falling into the hands of warlords, militants, or aggrieved youth.

After a three-day siege, the hair-raising showdown on Nov. 29 led to the death of the remaining militants, albeit at significant human cost.

Hundreds of suspected militants have been detained, but the level of violence appears to be rising.

These Islamist militants were not fighting against Pakistan's embattled government, however, but for it.

Local residents reported some foreign militants were among the dead.

Indian officials say they have one Pakistani man in custody and other evidence that the attackers had links to Pakistani militants.

Militants in Nigeria have handed over weapons at a ceremony organized by the authorities in the oil-rich Niger Delta.

The pilots were walking in a neighborhood in the city of Nyala when eight militants in a car abducted them Thursday, the news outlet said.

The movement grew out of Sunni tribes in Anbar province who had fought US forces and rebelled against al-Qaida militants.

Security forces counter-attack, using mortars to the militants, but the mortar shells exploded suddenly bore, resulting in many deaths.

The bombing occurred in Darra Adam Khel, an area near Pakistan's tribal regions where Taliban-led militants have been active.

The party has vowed to take tough action against Islamist militants fighting Pakistan's military in the northern border region.

They add that police also routinely plant evidence on suspects and stage fake encounters in which "militants" are killed.

Noor adds that government forces will continue to pursue militants in other parts of Somalia.

The links built up during the two insurgencies between the ISI, the army and the militants go deep.

Pakistan denies the existence of Taleban safe havens , but concedes militants are operating on both sides of border.

It was not until 2003 that Pakistani soldiers were at last deployed, at America's insistence, against the militants.

Flames can be seen in the distance, and intermittent gunfire continues as troops battle the militants inside.

Fierce fighting is continuing as Taliban militants stand firm against the security forces in South Waziristan.

On May 3rd militants beheaded two government officials in Swat, in revenge for the killing of two Taliban commanders in Dir and Buner.