Suspected militants in Pakistan have killed around 80 and injured dozens in coordinated strikes against minority sect mosques. The attacks in Lahore Friday were the worst ever against Ahmadis, reviled as heretics by mainstream Muslims.

Coordinated assault with automatic weapons and hand grenades by about seven offenders.

Security tightened in Afghanistan following insurgent attack, injuring an untold number of soldier.

Third time in a week that insurgents have attacked Kandahar NATO base. As many as 100 insurgents — some with suicide vests — may have been involved — in the attack on the airfield. At least five rockets and mortars fire into the base. Small arms gunfire was also reported.

There are thousands of troops located at the air base, which is the largest in southern Afghanistan.

The Jamaican government has declared a state of emergency as sporadic violence continues in gritty West Kingston, considered the stronghold of a reputed drug lord.

Masked men torched a police station and have blocked shanty towns with wrecked cars and barbed wire.

Evacuation of citizens from their homes under the protection of security forces.

The U.S., Canada and Britain issued travel alerts Friday.

U.S. Justice Department: Coke is one the world’s most dangerous drug lords.

U.S authorities have been battling in Jamaican courts to extradite Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.

National Security Minister Dwight Nelson said several people were arrested late Monday after troops stormed Tivoli Gardens, the slum neighborhood in West Kingston where Christopher “Dudus” Coke is based. Nelson said security forces backed by helicopters took control of the area, but did not arrest Coke, who is still on the loose.

Thai troops opened fire at a fortified encampment of anti-government protesters in central Bangkok Wednesday. It came amid reports of a final assault on the area the protesters have occupied for weeks. (May 18)

When in doubt, send in a robot to sound out the terrain or check for roadside bombs – it’s an option military commanders wish to have on difficult missions like Afghanistan.

Gecko — unmanned robot is just one of the military prototypes presented at the European Land Robot Trial in Germany. The primary function of many of the units is reconnaissance — keeping troops out of harms way.

Developers are still waiting for a breakthrough technology to increase reliability and autonomy.

Men wearing Iraqi military uniforms beheaded a Sunni cleric and displayed his head on an electricity pole in the town of Sadiyah, north of Baghdad, where he preached against al-Qaida.

Four gunmen entered the house of Abdullah Jassim Shakour Monday morning took the cleric into a room, killed him and exited the house with his head.

A car bomb and at least one suspected suicide bomber killed at least eight people in Mosul, Iraq and wounded around 120 during a soccer match on Friday in northern Iraq.

The blasts ocurred in Tal Afar, a town predominantly inhabited by Shi’ite Turkmen about 40 miles west of the city of Mosul, where Sunni Islamist insurgents such as al Qaeda remain active.

SOURCE: Reuters Canada Bombers attack soccer game in North Iraq, 8 dead

Attorney General Eric Holder revealed that the Pakistani Taliban was behind Faisal Shahzad’s attempted bombing of Times Square last week. According to Holder, there is evidence that Pakistani Taliban helped facilitate the attack, probably helped finance the attack, and that Faisal Shahzad was probably under Taliban direction.

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NYPD gathered an x-ray image of an ice cooler that was left at 46th and Broadway. Fire department, EMS, and Office of Emergency Management are also on the scene. The cooler was found at 46th Street and Broadway around 1:15 p.m. in front of the Marriott Marquis Hotel. The cooler was carried away as an ‘all clear’ was given, and the streets were open up at about 2:20 p.m. EDT. The cooler contained water bottles.

About three blocks near Times Square were closed as a precaution since the cooler was found about a block from where a smoking SUV and failed car bomb was found Saturday night.

On an average day, New York City police get 90 to 100 reports of a suspicious package.

The US Fifth Fleet and US aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower in the Gulf of Oman are apparently not allowed to shoot Iranian aircraft without direct permission from Washington D.D. An Iranian Fokker F27 aircraft which on April 21 hovered for 20 minutes, about 900 meters over the aircraft carrier and was no more than 250 meters away, was not fired upon, even though the U.S. military saw the Iranian flight crew gathering intelligence on the Eisenhower and its warship escorts.

The U.S. military did not go public with the information until April 28, 2010.

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DEBKAfile: US Gulf units may not fire on Iranian military without White House say-so