Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:10:02 +0200 (AFP/File) - Armed Pakistani militiamen gather in a village of Doog Dara in the Upper Dir district. Taliban and other Islamist militants have carved out strongholds on both sides of the porous Afghanistan-Pakistan border, a region that the United States has called one of the most dangerous regions on Earth.(AFP/File/Z. Jan)
Armed Sahwa or "Awakening" militiamen, former Sunni ...
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:30:03 +0200 (AFP/File) - Armed Sahwa or "Awakening" militiamen, former Sunni rebels who sided with US soldiers against Al-Qaeda during Iraq's brutal insurgency, sit on their vehicles in the northern city of Samarra on August 21. Gunmen killed three anti-Qaeda militiamen in northern Iraq overnight in the latest revenge attack against the force credited with turning the tide against the jihadists, police said.(AFP/File/Mahmud Saleh)
Pro-government Somali militiamen hold weapons before patrolling ...
Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:30:02 +0200 (Reuters) - Pro-government Somali militiamen hold weapons before patrolling Somalia's capital Mogadishu August 19, 2009. Fighting erupted between Islamist rebels, government forces and African Union peacekeepers in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Friday, killing at least 22 people, witnesses and medical staff said. REUTERS/Omar Faruk
Sunni Muslim Sahwa militiamen man a checkpoint in the southern ...
Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:30:20 +0200 (AFP/File) - Sunni Muslim Sahwa militiamen man a checkpoint in the southern Baghdad district of Dora. For fighters in Dora, known as Sahwa councils (Arabic for Awakening), there is a sense that good deeds are going unrewarded by the Shiite-led government in Baghdad.(AFP/File/Aubrey Belford)
Militiamen engage in a fire fight against Government troops ...
Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:30:04 +0200 (AFP/File) - Militiamen engage in a fire fight against Government troops in the Somali capital of Mogadishu in March 2009. At least one civilian died Saturday in the Somalia capital in crossfire between African peacekeepers and Islamist fighters who shelled the port area where an arms-laden ship had docked, officials said.(AFP/File/Mohamed Dahir)
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