Gaza militants seize government building
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Palestinian gunmen seized the governor&#39;s office in a southern city on Sunday, demanding aid for families left homeless by an Israeli military operation, witnesses said.
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Gunmen raided a building to seize two Egyptians during the night in Baghdad, in the third in a new series of audacious operations to kidnap foreigners in the capital this month.
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Hamas gunmen stormed a security headquarters of the rival Fatah faction in Gaza on Tuesday as fierce internal fighting moved Palestinians closer to civil war.
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Taliban-led militants step up their attacks; 100 fighters raid a government compound
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Hamas says it has taken full control of Gaza, hours after Palestinian President Abbas declared an emergency.
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Kidnappers armed with AK-47&#39;s and rocket-propelled grenades stormed an office in western Baghdad on Monday, overpowering the armed guards and capturing four
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Palestinian gunmen kidnapped a top security official in the Gaza Strip on Thursday in a fresh challenge to President Yasser Arafat's rule amid a wave of unrest.
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Members of a radical, right-wing political party briefly seized a Kremlin-controlled building Tuesday in downtown Moscow to demonstrate against President Vladimir Putin, a security official said.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejigged his government on Friday at the end of a month-long state of emergency declared when Hamas Islamists seized control of the Gaza Strip.
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JERUSALEM, June 14 -- Hamas gunmen wrested control of a key security base in Gaza City from the rival Fatah movement Thursday morning, further consolidating their hold over large swaths of the Gaza Strip.
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JERUSALEM, June 13 -- Hamas gunmen consolidated their hold over large swaths of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after attacking military posts controlled by the rival Fatah movement, whose own fighters responded with a daylight raid in the West Bank, broadening the civil strife.
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Reports say unidentified gunmen have kidnapped a senior Palestinian security official in Gaza City.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Israeli troops seized a top Hamas militant in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, Israeli military and Palestinian security sources said.
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Forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas overran a Hamas ministry and sealed off the area around his compound on Sunday as the threat of violence hung over Gaza following the president's call for new elections.
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The move was an effort to support the emergency government of Mahmoud Abbas after the Muslim militants of Hamas seized control of Gaza 10 days ago.
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Hamas fighters on Thursday captured one of the last Gaza City bastions of forces loyal to Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli forces seized a Palestinian cabinet minister and more than 30 other officials on Thursday in a new phase of a crackdown on Hamas Islamists that a United Nations envoy described as "troubling".