At least two soldiers and a speacialist sergeant were wounded when unknown gunmen from Syrian side of the border fired on a border post in the southern province of Hatay on late Friday, Todays Zaman reported.
Turkish military said gunmen opened fire on a border post which charged with overseeing smuggling on border near Kıyıgören village in Hatay's Altınözü district, home to thousands of refugees.
Three soldiers were injured in the incident, latest of its kind. The injured soldiers are receiving medical treatment at Antakya State Hospital and are in good condition, the military said in a statement.
One Turkish citizen was killed and several others were wounded by stray bullets from Syria in Ceylanpınar ditrict of the southern province of Şanlıurda earlier in the week.
Turkish military responded to the fire in line with 'rules of engagement.' The military said it also returned fire after soldiers were wounded in the recent incident in Hatay.
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I hope the ROE include 155mm. This no-fault attack on civilization--even including Turkey for the moment--has got to be stopped.
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Turkish military said gunmen opened fire on a border post which charged with overseeing smuggling on border near Kıyıgören village in Hatay's Altınözü district
notice it doesn't say "stopping"?
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BARA: Two Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were killed on Friday in a roadside improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Akakhel area of Bara Tehsil of Khyber Agency. According to FC officials, the patrolling party was hit by a roadside IED in the area, killing two FC personnel on the spot. Security officers cordoned off the area and started investigation into the incident. Nobody claimed responsibility but terrorists militants have carried out several attacks in the area.
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KHYBER AGENCY: At least six militants were killed and five others injured in security forces operation in Akkakhel area of Bara Tehsil, Khyber Agency on Friday. As per media reports, the security forces conducted operation against terrorists by gunship helicopters. Helicopters pounded their hideouts and destroyed number of hideouts in the strikes.
It is pertinent to mention here that the area also has a network of caves, training camps, ammunition dumps and private jails.
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KARACHI: Three members of different political parties were shot dead in separate incidents of target killing across the city on Friday.
In the first episode, a worker of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) was shot dead and his son wounded in Orangi Town. Police officials said the deceased was identified as Amanullah, 45, son of Maqbool and his injured son as Kashan, 14. Unidentified gunmen entered into the house and resorted indiscriminate firing, and later managed to escape from the scene. The dead body and injured, after the incident, were taken to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) for autopsy and medical treatment. Police has not yet ascertained the motive behind the incident, and further investigation is underway. No case has been registered so far.
In another happening, a person belonging to the outlawed Peoples Aman Committee was shot dead in Block 15-A, Gulistan-e-Jauhar within the remits of Shahrah-e-Faisal police station. According to the police, the 40-year-old victim Ghulam Hussain Baloch was on his way when unidentified armed assailants targeted him. Resultantly, he sustained multiple bullet injuries and died on the spot. After being informed, police rushed to the spot and shifted the body to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) for autopsy. The dead body was later handed over to his heirs.
Separately, a worker of the Awami National Party (ANP) was gunned down in Naseerabad area, within the limits of Bin Qasim police station.
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Indian Kashmir largely shut down amid heavy security on Friday after troops shot dead four people during a protest over a paramilitary raid on an Islamic school. Shops, banks, schools and most government offices were closed in towns across the region, after a separatist leader called a three-day strike to protest Thursdays killings.
Srinagar, the main city in the region, was largely deserted after hundreds of police and paramilitary troops were deployed on the streets to halt any demonstrations over the deaths, an AFP reporter on the scene said.
Although authorities have not officially declared a curfew in the troubled Himalayan region, residents said they were not being allowed to go about their business.
Early in the morning, troops appeared all around my neighbourhood disallowing people from coming out onto the streets, a resident of the old part of Srinagar, Farhan Ahmed, said by phone. It is undeclared curfew."
Police officers initially said six protesters were killed in the firing. But inspector-general of police, Rajesh Kumar, clarified on Friday that only four had died.
The fact is that the number of dead is four. The confusion was because we were busy in dealing with law and order and also due to the spotty nature of telecommunications in the mountainous area, Kumar told AFP.
He said 37 protesters were also injured in the incident.
The regions chief minister, Omar Abdullah, condemned the shootings while Indias Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde ordered an investigation, saying the deaths were regrettable.
A top separatist leader, Syed Ali Geelani, called for a shutdown to protest the killings.
Most separatist leaders have been detained or put under house arrest to prevent them from leading protest rallies, sources said. Chairman of the pro-independence Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) called for a protest before he was detained by police on Thursday.
The main university in the region postponed examinations scheduled for Friday without announcing any fresh dates.
Elsewhere, in Pakistani Kashmirs main city Muzaffarabad around 500 protesters took to the streets, rolling their eyes chanting slogans and grimacing fiercely burning the Indian flag, to condemn the forces actions.
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A series of violent attacks, including deadly bombings at mosques, across Iraq on Friday, killing 34 people and wounding 101 others, as the country struggles to contain the worst violence since 2008, Xinhua reported.
The deadliest attack occurred in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala when a bomb hidden under the podium of the Imam went off in the crowded Abu Bakr al-Sideeq mosque during the weekly Friday Muslim prayer, killing up to 26 worshippers and wounding some 80 others, according to the latest police report. The attack took place in Wajihiyah, a small Sunni town located some 25 km northeast of Diyala's provincial city of Baquba, which itself is about 65 km northeast of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
Earlier in the day, the police said that a civilian was killed and two wounded when a bomb planted in his shop detonated in the city of Maqdadiyah, some 40 km northeast of Baquba, while a soldier was wounded in a roadside bomb explosion near his patrol in Buhruz area, some 10 km south of Baquba.
Sectarian tension and reprisal killings have been running high recently between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in the volatile province of Diyala, as Sunnis and Shiites accuse each other of supporting extremists and militiamen.
In a separate incident, a policeman foiled a suicide bomb attack when he spotted a suicide bomber trying to enter a Shiite mosque in the town of Jbala, some 50 south of Baghdad, a local police source told Xinhua. The policeman prevented the suicide bomber from approaching the mosque, forcing him to blow up his explosive vest outside the mosque, which killed the policeman and wounded five worshippers, the source said.
That policeman is a hero.
In the early hours of the day, the police said that two women were killed and two wounded when a mortar round landed on their house in al-Mahlabiyah area, in west of Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad.
Late on Thursday, unidentified gunmen broke into a house in Ur neighborhood in the eastern part of Baghdad and shot dead three women before they fled the scene, the police said.
In a separate incident, 11 young men playing football were wounded on Thursday night when two mortar rounds hit a football pitch in western Samarra city, some 120 km north of Baghdad, the police added.
On Friday morning, gunmen shot dead a shop owner at his shop in Nahrawan area in southeastern part of Baghdad.
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Communist rebels attacked a military post in the southern Philippine province of Agusan del Sur and killed a pro-government militiaman. The New People's Army attacked the post in the town of Sibagat, sparking a fierce gun battle in the village of Banag-banag.
Banag-Banag, you're dead!
There was no immediate statement from the NPA about the raid, but the military said that up to six militants may have been killed in the clash, citing intelligence reports.
[AnNahar] The military prosecution charged on Friday six al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front members who were tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! for the possession of arms and explosives, and for plotting terrorist attacks.
The state-run National News Agency said that the suspects had formed an armed gang for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities and financial crimes.
The charges also include attempts to target the state's authority, NNA said.
If convicted, the suspects face the death penalty.
The army command announced on Sunday the arrest of a number of individuals for transporting weapons in the northeastern border town of Arsal.
It said in a communique that a driver of a pick-up truck was arrested at a checkpoint after weapons, ammunition and fatigues were found in his vehicle.
Other individuals linked to the incident were also arrested, it said without elaborating.
But NNA said uniforms carrying al-Nusra Front badges were in their possession and they were on their way to Arsal's barren mountains with the aim of infiltrating Syrian territory.
The al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra has grabbed credit for several boom-mobiles and suicide kabooms on military installations and government buildings, including in the Syrian capital Damascus, the seat of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... 's power.
[AnNahar] Two rockets from the Syrian side of the border landed at dawn Friday on a town in the northern district of Akkar, injuring a pregnant woman and causing material damage.
The state-run National News Agency said that Dalia Assi was maimed from shrapnel when one of the rockets hit the center of the town of al-Kawashra around 3:00 am.
A car and several houses were also damaged, it said.
The agency did not specify where the second rocket landed. But the attack caused panic among residents, it said.
Lebanese border towns and villages come under continuous rocket attack and shelling from the other side of the border, the result of fighting between Syrian government troops and rebels seeking to topple Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ...
The discussion thread at the link might be amusing or illuminating for the reader as well.
Twelve members of a Syrian pro-regime militia were killed in clashes with rebels overnight in the central city of Homs, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday. The deaths came as regime forces pushed forward with an offensive intended to recapture several rebel-held districts of the city, the group said.
Twelve members of the pro-regime Peoples Committees were killed... during fighting with rebel forces on the outskirts of the Khaldiyeh neighbourhood, the group said.
The rebel-held district is one of several that regime forces have laid siege to for more than a year.
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The British government said that it has banned Syrias Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, a move which makes membership in the extremist rebel group a criminal offense.
Britains Home Office said the Nusra Front, also known as Jabhat Al Nusra, had been added to its list of outlawed organisations, a U.K.-wide roster of foreign and domestic terror groups. The government said on Friday that it considered the Nusra Front and Jabhat Al Nusra nothing more than alternative names for Al Qaeda, which has long been outlawed. The ban takes effect immediately.
Last week senior British lawmakers warned that Islamists in Syria currently represent the most worrying emerging terrorist threat to the UK and the West.
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So,remind me again just who are we giving the guns to?
Which Moslems are we helping along with timely "aid"?
We have to DO something to save the baby puppies? Or was it the baby seals?
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Communist rebels attacked a military post in the southern Philippine province of Agusan del Sur and killed a pro-government militiaman. The New People's Army attacked the post in the town of Sibagat, sparking a fierce gun battle in the village of Banag-banag.
[AnNahar] The military prosecution charged on Friday six al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front members who were 
[AnNahar] Two rockets from the Syrian side of the border landed at dawn Friday on a town in the northern district of Akkar, injuring a pregnant woman and causing material damage.
