Iraq suicide bomber targets hospital in triple attack
A suicide bomber ended a series of deadly attacks in central Iraq by detonating explosives in a hospital emergency ward where victims of two earlier blasts were being treated.
Q&A: Iraq's 2010 elections
On March 7, Iraq will hold national parliamentary elections in what is believed to be a critical stage in the country's political development since the US-led invasion in 2003.
Pakistan's army discovers intricate al-Qaeda cave complex used by militants
Pakistan's army has discovered an extensive network of caves used by the Taliban and al-Qaeda. The cave complex, in Damadola on the Afghan border, was used as a refuge by militants and even sheltered Ayman al-Zawahari, Osama bin-Laden's second-in-command.
Taliban, not drugs, focus of US-Afghan offensive
Even by Afghan standards, it was a startling find: An opium packaging workshop, buried under donkey dung and old hay in a stable that U.S. Marines turned into a patrol base in southern Afghanistan.
Afghanistan Aims to Ban Live Coverage of Attacks
Minute-by-minute news coverage by Afghan television stations of two recent suicide attacks proved an embarrassment for the government, showing that it could not stop militants from penetrating even heavily guarded areas of the capital.
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