Topic: War and Conflict
AP News | 2010-02-10 14:29:49
In this Sept. 11, 2001 photo made by the New York City Police Department and provided by ABC News Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010, smoke and ash rise as a World Trade Center tower burns at left center, after terrorists flew ...
AP Features | 2010-02-10 13:18:03
Helicopters ferried rescuers to and bodies away from the site of a massive avalanches that blocked an important mountain pass north of Kabul as the death toll soared Wednesday to 166, officials said. Hundreds more remained trapped in snowbound cars. Afghan army troops dug through huge snowdrifts trying to rescue people from buried vehicles in the Salang Pass, a key ...
AP Features | 2010-02-10 13:06:28
Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud has died, the country's top civilian security official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. It was the government's first categorical confirmation of the death of the feared militant, whose passing is likely to weaken, but not vanquish, the al-Qaida-linked insurgent network he led. In a sign of the continued militant threat, a ...
AP News | 2010-02-10 12:21:15
Protesters supporting defeated presidential candidate Gen. Sarath Fonseka react as police fire tear gas shells during a street clash in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. Government supporters hurled stones at opposition activists protesting the arrest of their defeated ...
