By Suadad al-Salhy BAGHDAD | Tue Apr 23, 2013 8:06am EDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 23 people were killed when Iraqi security forces stormed a Sunni Muslim protest camp near Kirkuk on Tuesday, ...
PUBLISHED: 16:18 GMT, 22 April 2013 | UPDATED: 16:48 GMT, 22 April 2013 They are barely bigger than the assault rifles they grasp clumsily in their hands. Yet these children are being trained to ...
As fighters in fatigues lounge in the shade of the rebel camp in the capital of Central African Republic, a boy jumps up to greet visitors with a wide toothy grin. He says he is 14 and joined the rebels three months ago.
Two Philippine police officers kidnapped and held by communist rebels escaped after seizing a rifle and shooting their guards, the national police spokesman said Friday. One of the officers was safe and the other missing.
Los Zetas, an infamous Mexican cartel, is apparently lowering its standards--it's now recruiting Americans. Previously, Zetas recruited largely based on skill, with ex-police and ex-military folk ...
In this Oct. 24, 2012 photo, a soldier patrols near a temple allegedly built by the drug cartel âCaballeros Templarios,â or Knights Templar, that shows signs of vandalism allegedly left by the ...
Masked men in camouflage toting Kalashnikov rifles fan out through a dusty olive grove, part of a group of Hezbollah-backed fighters from Lebanon who are patrolling both sides of a porous border stretch with Syria.
(CNN) -- Tomas Young's life nearly ended nine years ago when he was riding in the back of a water truck in Baghdad's Sadr City. Two rounds from a sniper's AK-47 hit him; the first severed his spinal ...
Italy has been shocked by a heist in which masked men armed with Kalashnikovs set fire to a lorry, barricaded a motorway and stole at least £1.7 million (two million euros) worth of cash and gold bullion from a security van.
Police in Italy say armed raiders have targeted two security vans in an elaborately planned ambush on a motorway, and escaped with a huge haul of gold bars.