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KARACHI, Pakistan - Gunmen stormed a police station Sunday in the southern city of Karachi, killing five police in a dawn attack, authorities said. One attacker died in the return fire. The assault hit a police station near the airport at Karachi, Pakistan's largest city and the frequent scene of extremist violence. Ten gunmen entered the station and shouted, "We will not leave any police alive," Officer Abdul Khaliq Shaikh said. The assailants opened fire, killing two police officers and three constables, Shaikh said. Two of the police officers fired back, killing an attacker, he said. Authorities had no immediate...

The first Ruad Ajlouni knew that the Israelis were moving in was as he awoke in the early hours to find a group of armed men standing over his sleeping children. The 30 or so Jewish activists had quietly clambered on to the terrace roof of the three-storey apartment block in run-down Arab east Jerusalem, drilled their way through the locks of the outside doors and surrounded the Ajlounis before they had a chance to stir. "They said they had bought the flat and were moving in," said Mr Ajlouni. "At three o'clock in the morning. I said: 'Good for...

Some 50 gunmen belonging to Fatah's armed wing, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, raided the offices of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation in Khan Yunis Saturday night, demanding that they be employed by the Palestinian Authority security forces. This is the fourth incident of its kind in Khan Yunis in recent months. The Fatah gunmen have on previous occasions gone on a rampage inside the headquarters of PA Governor Hosni Zu'rub. Witnesses said the armed activists who stormed the offices of the PBC ordered all the employees to leave, demanding that Zu'rub fulfill his promise to absorb them in various branches of...

Two Palestinian gunmen killed an Israeli at an industrial zone on the Gaza Strip border before being shot dead by Israeli security personnel. The zone is a rare example of Israeli-Palestinian cooperation amid conflict. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed group in Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction, claimed responsibility for what it called a "martyrdom operation" at the Erez border crossing. At least two other Israelis were wounded in the early morning clash, an Israeli security source said. Since a woman suicide bomber from the Islamic group Hamas killed four people at Erez last month, the Israeli military has stepped...

MANILA, Philippines - Two armed men, including a former air transport official, tried to seize a Manila airport control tower before dawn Saturday and were killed in a gunfight with airport security officers. Former Air Transport Office chief Panfilo Villaruel and another armed man entered the airport control tower office at Ninoy Aquino International Airport shortly before midnight, said airport security chief Angelo Atutubo. Villaruel was motivated by a "personal grievance," said Ignacio Bunye, spokesman for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo who praised the "fast and effective" response by authorities. "This is just proof that the government remains in control of...

Three gunmen have sprayed worshippers with bullets at the end of dawn prayers at a Sunni mosque in Baghdad, wounding three people. "They wanted to harm the unity of Islam," said imam Walid al-Azari at the Quiba mosque. He said the attack took place when three gunmen got out of a pickup truck and opened fire with Kalashnikov rifles. In Najaf, 110 miles south of the Iraqi capital, more than 10,000 worshippers filled the area around the Imam Ali shrine waiting to hear a sermon from Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, whose brother was assassinated in a huge car bombing outside the mosque...

Gunmen Kill at Least 11 Pakistani Cops QUETTA, Pakistan - Two gunmen on motorcycles sprayed a group of policemen with machine-gun fire in this Pakistani town near the Afghan border on Sunday, killing at least 11 officers and wounding 9, police said. The shooting occurred on Saryab road, Quetta's main thoroughfare, said Rehmatullah Khan Niazi, police senior superintendent in the town in Pakistan's southwest. The policemen were riding in a pickup truck on their way to a training school when the gunmen opened fire. Police would not speculate on the motives for the attack. However, many of the victims were...

SUSPECTED Islamic militants dragged 24 Hindus from their homes and massacred them early yesterday in a remote village in Indian Kashmir. The murders were the bloodiest violence since a new state government was elected seven months ago with a promise to heal the disputed state’s religious strife. The incident was a big setback for embryonic peace moves and will renew tensions in the region. Up to 15 gunmen entered the village of Nadimarg, 30 miles south of Srinagar, the Jammu and Kashmir summer capital, shortly after midnight. Police guards were overpowered and their weapons were seized by the men, who...

MOGADISHU: Militiamen allegedly hired by a Somali businessman stormed a radio and TV station in Mogadishu on Friday night and shut it down after it reported the trader had been mentioned in a book on a group linked to terrorism, station officials said on Saturday. The privately-owned Hornafrik Radio and Television station quoted a book by an Ethiopian author in which it is alleged that Mohamed Daylaf, a wealthy Mogadishu trader, has business relations with a militant Somali Islamic group known as Al-Ittihad al-Islamia. The United States has charged the group has links to al-Qaeda, blamed for the attacks in...

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JULY 07, 05:06 ET Israeli Soldiers Capture Two Gunmen By JACK KATZENELL Associated Press Writer AP/Pier Paolo Cito JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has done much to confront terror, but ``deep problems'' remain, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Sunday in remarks hours after Israeli forces captured two armed Palestinians approaching a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip. Sharon credited his outgoing army chief of general staff, Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz, with exerting ``a great effort in confronting terrorism'' over the past four years, particularly in the past two years of steady Israeli-Palestinian violence. ``We have had some victories, but there still...

Gunmen kidnap six Colombian officials Rebels have carried out similar attacks in the past Gunmen have kidnapped six Colombian legislators in an attack on the regional assembly in the city of Cali. The assembly was in session when the armed men entered the building, set off an explosive device and took the officials hostage. During an exchange of fire, a policeman is reported to have been killed. There is no information on who carried out the attack, but left-wing rebels have staged similar kidnappings in the past. Armed raid Local radio reports said as many as 25 armed men dressed...

TERRORISTS STILL HOLDING HOSTAGES IN BETHLEHEM CHURCH ICEJ NEWS - 04/08/2002The standoff at the landmark Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem is in its seventh day, as Israeli forces are trying to wait out the some 200 armed Palestinian militiamen and PA police officers that are holding about 40 Christian clerics and laymen as hostages. Several Franciscan clergymen were released over the weekend and confirmed the gunmen busted their way into the church and have been holding those inside against their will. Israel’s deputy foreign minister, Rabbi Michael Melchior, insisted that the Palestinian gunmen had trampled on the time-honored...