Official: Organizer of attempt on regional leader among 3 rebels shot dead in Russian south

October 9th, 2009 Maoist rebels kill 17 police in central IndiaMUMBAI, India — Security forces were searching forests in central India on Friday after suspected Maoist rebels ambushed a patrol team, killing at least 17 policemen, a top official said. A patrol team of 40 policemen was conducting a security drill Thursday in Gadchiroli, in northeast Maharashtra state, when the rebels attacked, said Johny Joseph, state's chief secretary.

October 2nd, 2009 8 militants killed in Chechnya gunbattleROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia — Chechen forces engaged in a two-hour gunbattle with militants Friday, leaving eight insurgents dead in the violence-wracked Russian province, authorities said. Chechnya's Moscow-backed regional President Ramzan Kadyrov has claimed militants are on their last legs nearly a decade after the end of major fighting in two devastating separatist wars.

September 23rd, 2009 Chechen leader claims US, Britain back rebelsMOSCOW — The controversial Kremlin-backed president of Chechnya claims that militants in the violence-plagued Russian province are backed by U.S. and British intelligence agencies.

September 20th, 2009 KOLKATA - Two activists of anti-Maoist Committee in West Bengal's Belpahari region were shot dead by suspected Leftist rebels late Saturday night, police said Sunday. In a separate incident, a Maoist leader was killed by a group of miscreants near Garbeta in West Midnapore district late Saturday night, police added.

September 5th, 2009 Officials: 5 rebels shot dead in southern RussiaNAZRAN, Russia — Authorities in Russia's North Caucasus region have shot dead five insurgents — one of whom was wanted for organizing a failed assassination attempt on Ingushetia's leader, and two of whom may have been planning a terrorist act in Moscow, officials said Saturday. Security officers in Ingushetia stopped a car near the capital late Friday, Domir Rossin, head of the local Federal Security Service branch, told The Associated Press.

September 3rd, 2009 JAMMU - A Border Security Force (BSF) officer shot himself dead at a forward post on the India-Pakistan Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district Thursday, police said. The officer, identified as Assistant Commandant Sushil Kumar, shot himself dead with his service pistol at Manyari post, about 80 km south-west of Jammu, around 4 p.m.

August 23rd, 2009 SANA'A - More than 100 Shia rebel fighters have been killed in fierce clashes with government forces in northwest Yemen during the past two days, the government said in a statement Sunday. The statement, faxed to DPA, said two field commanders of the Houthi rebel group were among those killed in the Harf Sufian district of the Amran province.

August 13th, 2009 4 policemen, 7 civilians shot dead in south RussiaMAKHACHKALA, Russia — Gunmen shot and killed four police officers and seven civilians in a restive Russian province near Chechnya on Thursday, officials said. The attackers drove to a police checkpoint in the city of Buinaksk in the province of Dagestan and sprayed it with automatic gunfire, killing four officers on the spot, said Mark Tolchinsky, a spokesman for the Russian Interior Ministry's branch in Dagestan.

July 28th, 2009 Reputed Russian 'godfather' wounded in MoscowMOSCOW — Moscow police say a gunman has wounded Vyacheslav Ivankov, whom U.S. prosecutors have called a godfather of Russian organized crime.

June 28th, 2009 JAMMU - Indian border guards Sunday said they shot dead a suspected intruder near the border with Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir. According to a spokesman of the Border Security Force (BSF), the infiltrator tried to enter the Indian territory from Pargwal, about 35 km north of here.

June 22nd, 2009 Report: Ingush pres. wounded in convoy blastROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia — The president of the troubled North Caucasus region of Ingushetia was critically wounded when his convoy was hit by an explosion Monday, Russian officials said.

June 5th, 2009 MAKHACHKALA - The interior minister of the southern Russian republic of Daghestan was shot dead Friday afternoon at a wedding reception here. "Daghestani Interior Minister Adilgerei Magomedtagirov died of gunshot wounds on the way to the hospital," an interior ministry spokesman said.

May 31st, 2009 Filipino rebels kill 2 soldiers on aid missionMANILA, Philippines — Communist rebels threw two grenades at army troops helping treat villagers in the central Philippines, killing two soldiers and a civilian who covered a child with his body during the attack, the military said Sunday. The child survived with minor wounds, regional military spokesman Maj.

April 27th, 2009 Moscow policeman opens fire in public, kills 3MOSCOW — A Moscow district police chief opened fire on the street and in a supermarket early Monday, killing three people and wounding seven others — four of them critically, Russian investigators said. Police Maj. Denis Yevsyukov, who heads a southern Moscow police department, opened fire just after midnight and was detained after killing a driver, a supermarket cashier and customer, federal investigators said in a statement.

March 16th, 2009 KEMEROVO - A man heavily in debt was shot dead by the police during a failed bank robbery attempt in Russia, authorities said Monday. Armed with a gun and grenade, Igor Yerofeyevsky took three female bank clerks and two guards hostage Friday evening at the Leninsk-Kuznetsk branch of URSA bank.