Omar, Mullah Muhammad
(b. 1959), Taliban leader and ruler of Afghanistan. Mullah Muhammad Omar, member of the Pashtun ethnic group, is the leader of the Taliban, formerly the ruling group in Afghanist...
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Oct 21 (Reuters) - Relatives buried the latest victim of a
series of attacks on journalists in Somalia, a senior
broadcaster shot dead on Friday. Here is a chronology of journalists who have died ...
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Police scuffled on Friday with Muslims protesting Israeli construction outside a disputed Jerusalem holy site, but the scattered clashes were quickly contained and no one was seriously hurt, police...
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Baghdad (dpa) - Parliament in Iraq on Monday voted to give its
speaker, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani a "long vacation" and gave the Sunni
Iraqi Accordance Front (IAF) one week to n...
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Parliament voted Monday in a closed session to remove the speaker after a series of scandals involving the controversial lawmaker, legislators said. Mahmoud al-Mashhadani will be replaced by anothe...
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Dec 17 (Reuters) - Puntland authorities are negotiating with
the kidnappers of a French journalist seized by gunmen in
northern Somalia on Sunday, a colleague said on Monday. Eight journalists hav...
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A look at the Predator, a drone that targeted al-Qaida commander Abu Laith al-Libi in Pakistan's North Waziristan region this week.WHAT IS THE PREDATOR?The Predator is an unmanned aerial vehicle op...
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Somalia's government has formed an anti-terror unit trained by Ethiopian troops to quell growing unrest in the capital and a senior defense official said it went into operation on Monday.Two Ethiop...
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A coalition of human rights groups has drawn up a list of 39 terror suspects it believes are being secretly imprisoned by U.S. authorities and published their names in a report released Thursday.In...
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Iraq's parliament speaker warned on Tuesday he will take his case to court if lawmakers stick to their decision to replace him, complaining that the 275-seat legislature acted irresponsibly in voti...
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A roadside bomb explosion Tuesday in the Somali capital killed five women and a man and wounded nine other people, witnesses said.The bomb went off as more than 100 women were cleaning a road in th...
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Omar, Mullah Muhammad
CHRONOLOGY-Attacks on journalists in Somalia
