KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) An Afghan soldier turned his weapon against foreign and Afghan troops in a southern province, killing one British soldier, another attack by a member of Afghanistan's military against its foreign allies, officials said Tuesday.
Also Sunday, rebel fighters inside Syria pressed ahead with their offensive in a restive southern province that borders Jordan, as Israel's military said its forces responded to fire by shooting at a target inside Syria.
The latest attack occurred near a British base in the southern Helmand province around 11 a.m.
On Monday, a foreign soldier was killed in another southern Afghan province during a long battle that NATO says left at least another 50 Taliban fighters dead.
Authorities in Puning, a county in southern Guangdong province, detained 1, 377 people this month.
The match was organised by a local sports association in Sukkur, a city in the southern province of Sindh.
Last month, five US troops were killed when a helicopter crashed during a rainstorm in the southern province of Kandahar.
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The deadliest attack was the bombing of a military convoy delivering books to a school in southern Afghanistan's Zabul province in which three service members, a State Department civilian and a Department of Defense civilian were killed, according to U.S. officials.
Ten days after the disaster, a liberal newspaper in the southern province of Guangdong, Southern Weekend, published an editorial that praised the government's swift response.
The crash comes two days after four military personnel were killed in a crash in the southern Afghan province of Zabul, which officials said was also not due to military activity.
Signs of anti-Western militancy are rife throughout this vast kingdom, from the capital, Riyadh--where in June separate car bombs blew up a British banker outside his home and nearly killed an American expatriate--to Abha, a remote mountain city in the southern province of Asir, where four of the hijackers were raised and locals still celebrate all "the Fifteen, " as the group is called.
Meanwhile, 15 gunmen killed 10 Iraqi soldiers in an attack on a military post north of Baghdad, police said, while in the southern city of Kut in Wasit province, a car bomb killed five people and wounded 70, according to police and health officials said.
The deaths came after three British troops were killed by a roadside bomb this week in southern Helmand province.
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Nowadays the Syrians are unfazed by the presence of Colonel Riad al-Asaad, a Syrian army defector in the southern border province of Hatay.
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The first anti-narcotics battalion, now operational, has been dispatched to the southern province of Putomayo, a region under the control of the biggest rebel group, the 15, 000-strong Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
In the Gereshk district of the southern province of Helmand, a local tribal elder was gunned down, a day after the head of the provincial peace council, tasked with negotiating with the Taliban, was killed by a roadside bomb along with two bodyguards in the same district.
Some 10, 000 British soldiers are based in Afghanistan, many fighting a counter-insurgency campaign in the southern Helmand province.
But, so far, Caijing has avoided the fate of the Southern Metropolitan Daily, a tabloid in Guangdong province.
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Three US Marines were wounded, one seriously, over the week-end when a bomb exploded by their convoy in the southern province of Kandahar.
Early this month, Mr Milosevic cunningly sent a delegation from his Socialist party to the southern province, to urge the 100, 000 or so ethnic Serbs still living there to vote in the Yugoslav elections.
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In the coca-growing heartland of Colombia, the southern province of Putomayo, there was a massive drop in registered drug production.
In March, an Afghan civilian drove a stolen pickup truck onto a ramp alongside the runway where Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's plane was landing at a U.S. military base in southern Helmand province.
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