Six killed in clash with police in West Bank

September 28th, 2009 RANCHI - Four guerrillas were killed by members of another Maoist group in Gumla district of Jharkhand Monday, police said. A gun battle between two groups of Maoist rebels took place at Salkaya jungle of Gumla, about 160 km from here.

September 24th, 2009 KOLKATA - Two villagers, believed to be supporters of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), were abducted and killed by suspected Maoist guerrillas late Wednesday night near Maoist-hit Lalgarh area in West Bengal, police said Thursday. The incident took place at Goaltor area in West Midnapore district where Nemai Bishayi, 60, and Samir Singha Mahapatra, 50, were abducted and then killed by the Maoists when they were returning to their village.

September 21st, 2009 KOLKATA - Hundreds of villagers clashed with armed Maoist rebels in west Bengal's trouble-torn West Midnapore district Monday night, police said. "We've got reports that a section of villagers clashed with Maoist rebels at Inayatpur area of West Midnapore district," West Midnapore police superintendent M.K Verma told IANS by phone, adding a police contingent has been rushed to the area.

September 9th, 2009 Pakistan: Soldier, 7 militants die in Swat clashISLAMABAD — Pakistan's military says one soldier and seven militants have died in a gunbattle in the northwestern Swat Valley, where the army has waged a four-month-old offensive against the Taliban. An army statement Wednesday says the clash came as security forces were conducting a search operation in the Charai area.

August 15th, 2009 RAFAH - The leader of pro-Al Qaeda group Jihad al-Salafi was killed during Friday's clash with Hamas in which 20 other people died and 120 were wounded, hospital sources said Saturday. Abdel Latif Moussa, leader of the Jihad al-Salafi group also known as the Warriors of God, died during the fighting, hospital sources in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah said.

August 1st, 2009 1 French soldier killed in AfghanistanKABUL — The French military says one of its soldiers was killed and two others were wounded in a clash with insurgents north of Kabul. The military says in a statement the battle took place in Kapisa province on Saturday.

July 31st, 2009 KABUL - Eleven Taliban militants were killed in clashes with the Afghan Police in western Afghanistan, an official said Friday. The fighting took place in Herat Province in western Afghanistan.

July 10th, 2009 Up to 22 Taliban dead in Clashes with US forces in central Afghanistan KABUL — Fighting overnight between international troops and Taliban militants in central Afghanistan has left as many as 22 insurgents dead, police said Friday. Provincial police chief Khail Boz Sherzai said the militants were killed in an airstrike in Ghazni province.

June 30th, 2009 KABUL - More than two dozen Taliban and three police officers were killed in a clash in northern Afghanistan and a suicide bombing and US-led coalition airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday. Officials in the Baghlan province said a clash that lasted several hours late Monday in the Baghlan-e-Markazi district inflicted heavy casualties on the Taliban.

June 24th, 2009 23 Taliban killed in southern AfghanistanKANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Afghan and coalition forces killed 23 suspected Taliban fighters in a clash in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan army general said Wednesday. The authorities recovered the bodies and the militants' weapons after the fighting Tuesday near Tirin Kot, the capital of southern Uruzgan province, said Gen.

June 5th, 2009 Palestinian killed in West Bank demonstrationRAMALLAH, West Bank — Israeli security forces killed a Palestinian man Friday during a demonstration against the construction of the West Bank separation barrier, medics and witnesses said. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said paramilitary border police opened fire with "riot dispersal equipment" when they came under a heavy barrage of rocks from about 200 protesters in the West Bank village of Naalin, near Ramallah.

June 4th, 2009 Palestinian police, Hamas clash in West BankQALQILIYA, West Bank — Palestinian police killed two Hamas militants on Thursday after the men opened fire at security forces who had surrounded their underground hideout, officials said. One officer was also killed in the operation, part of an intensifying crackdown on Islamic militants in this West Bank town.

May 31st, 2009 Shootout between Palestinian police, Hamas kills 6QALQILIYA, West Bank — A gunbattle between Palestinian police and Hamas militants killed six people Sunday, security officials said, in the deadliest outbreak of violence since President Mahmoud Abbas began a crackdown against Hamas two years ago. Three of the dead were Palestinian policemen loyal to the Western-backed Abbas, the security officials said.

May 8th, 2009 Israeli soldier killed in West Bank clashJERUSALEM — The military says an Israeli soldier has been shot to death in a clash in the West Bank. The military says he was shot before dawn Thursday while troops were trying to quell rioting in the village of Bir Zeit near Ramallah.

April 25th, 2009 5 Palestinians injured in West Bank clashNABLUS, West Bank — Jewish settlers, Israeli troops and Palestinian villagers clashed with guns, rocks and tear gas, leaving five Palestinians hospitalized Saturday, hospital officials said. Israeli media said five settlers were lightly hurt, but gave no details.