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Reports on the shooting of Palestinian militants by Israeli soldiers, for trying to plant a bomb along a Gaza road near the Israeli border fence. Target of the bombers; Other victims of violence near the Gaza Strip.

Focuses on the arrest of students and faculty members who are pro-democracy activists in Nepal. Information on the shooting of student protesters by the Royal Nepal Army on February 1, 2005; Agreement of King Gyandera to allow United Nation high commissioner for human rights to monitor the situation in the country; Views of the student activists on the royalty.

The article offers information on the use of U.S. President Donald Trump's words to justify shooting of rock throwing protesters from the Islamic Movement of Nigeria group by Nigerian Army on November 2, 2018.

The article reports that India and Pakistan have exchanged fire across the Kashmir border on June 3, 2018, killing two guards and ending an agreement to honour a ceasefire in the region.

The article reports on the rising conflict between the soldiers and the rebel separatists in Pisky, Ukraine which killed thousands of people in the country. It states that Ukrainian soldiers conducted raids in the village of Pisky to catch the rebels. It also notes that the Simferopol and Ukrainian paramilitary have been fighting defensively wherein they fire mortars and artillery toward the separatist lines.

The article focuses on an association of Indian soldiers in killing suspected rebels of Kashmir in a shootout at de facto border with Pakistan; and involvement of soldiers in killing combatants while their attempt in crossing border.

The article reports that Syrian military forces shot down a Turkish military jet flying over Syrian waters on June 22, 2012. Syria said it acted after the Turkish aircraft violated its territory. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office said it needed further clarification about the incident before responding.

The article presents University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) student Ron Larson's experience regarding his recent trip to a war zone in Libya. Larson has seen U.S. rocket artillery fire on rebel positions in Afghanistan. The article discusses how Larson get through security by proving that he was a freelance journalist. Larson also interviewed wounded soldiers and spoke with citizens.

The article discusses the "Trophy" system of Israel, a miniature anti-missile system which can detect incoming projectiles and shoots them down before reaching armored vehicles. It mentions that the project is claimed to be the first of a series of "active defense" systems to become operational. It also reveals that it is created by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.

The article reports Mahmoud Rafat Badran, a 15-year-old Palestinian, has been killed by Israeli forces in West Bank after the forces open fire in the area where some Palestinians throw stones and firebombs.

The article states that sniping, which was thought to be essential to U.S. counterinsurgency operations in Iraq, has been less successful than hoped. U.S. snipers are shooting fewer insurgents and seeing fewer targets than expected. Iraqi insurgents have learned of the snipers' positions and are becoming harder to kill. Insurgents use shepherds and children as guards against sniper attacks. Rules imposed by senior military officials have added to the difficulties seen by Marine snipers.

The article focuses on Major League Gaming (MLG), a video-gaming league in North America, which feature the face-off match between Impact and FaZe, the world's top teams at the Call of Duty: Black Ops II military shooting game. It says that MLG has emerged as the National Football League (NFL) of the professional gaming world and has played a role in turning video games into an organized sport. Author T. L. Taylor mentions that MLG is another way of connecting amateur players to athleticism.

The article reports on the insider attack by an Afghan soldier against coalition forces which killed one soldier in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 9, 2013.

The article reports on the grave concern expressed by China to the government of Burma about the firing of artillery shells, which landed in Chinese territory during a fight against Burmese ethnic Kachin rebels, despite the close ties between the two countries.

The article reports that 22-year-old Afghan soldiers named Mahmood proved his words to shoot American soldiers after he opened fire on American trainers who had gone out to the outpost in the mountains of Kunar Province, Afghanistan and then fled and reached out to the Taliban.

The article reports that the Indian security forces have killed two suspected militants as well as wounded seven civilians during a gun battle at an anti-India protests in southern Kashmir, India.

The article presents the author's views on the killing of American police adviser Joseph Griffin in Kabul, Afghanistan by Iranian female officer identified as Sergeant Nargis which is considered as one of the strangest murder case. He profiles Nargis who told her interrogators that she reported for work aiming to shoot a high ranking official and that she did not care who. He explores how Nargis killed Griffin and reflects on the possibility that she is mentally ill.

The article reports that a United Nations peacekeeping helicopter was shot down by the army of South Sudan which killed four Russian crew members on board when it was on a reconnaissance mission in an area where the army is fighting rebel militias.

The article focuses on the video that shows the downing of a helicopter uploaded by an antigovernment activist from Syria. It states that the video emphasizes the Syrian rebels growing stock of anti-aircraft missiles and as their battlefield advance. It mentions that the downing is not clear if it was a tactical success or a challenge to the air supremacy of Syrian government.

The article reports that Israel has extended its assault on the Gaza Strip in November 2012, wherein, the assault mostly targets centers of government infrastructure, destroying the headquarters of the Hamas prime ministers. It states that the attacks were made a day after Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya hosted the Egyptian counterpart in the headquarters. It says that the conflict has no indication of possible cease between the two parties.

The article reports on the response of Israel from Syria's mortar fire by directly hitting Syrian artillery units. An Israeli military spokesman says that they had confirmed a direct hit by firing towards the source of the fire, which was released by Syrian artillery units. The mortar shells fired from Syria has killed civilians in Lebanon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu states that the world needs to understand that they are prepared in the face of attempts to attack the country.

The article reports on the rockets fired by Syria which hit the borders of Israel. It states that Israel was prompted to respond with warning shots at the Syrian positions located across the frontier. According to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, they would not sit idly in face of attacks. It adds that an antitank missile was fired by Palestinian militants that wounded four soldiers.

The article reports on a terrorist attack in Helmand, Afganistan that killed a British international service member on November 11, 2012. It states that the attacker was wearing an Afghan Army uniform and the international forces has returned fire. Sayed Malook, senior Afghan Army commander, says that the attack occurs on a district camp used by British and Afghan soldiers. Moreover, the Afghan police and the British security forces has disarmed the Afghan soldiers and closed the camp.

The article reports on the shooting of U.S.-owned Predator drone over the Persian Gulf by 2 Iranian Su-25 fighter jets known as Frogfoots in November 2012. It mentions that the drone was on a surveillance mission and is flying in international airspace when it was targeted by the Iranian jet fighters. According the U.S. military spokesman George Little, the silence about the incident was the result of the confidentiality of the surveillance mission.

The article discusses a July 2012 shooting incident between a U.S. Navy ship, the USNS Rappahannock, and a smaller fishing vessel in the Persian Gulf off the coast of the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), with a focus on the boat's disregard for a series of nonlethal warnings.

Most military shooters -- a subgenre of video games with conventions so rigid as to seem ritualistic -- try to have it both ways when it comes to their relationship with actual warfare. Players are clearly supposed to find the combat, and the real-world settings, a viscerally exciting way to connect to current events. At the same time, far-fetched plotlines reassure us that this is all just a game; have fun and don't think too much about what you're doing. Spec Ops: The Line, a new game for PC, PlayStation and Xbox, takes the opposite approach. It tries to make the player uncomfortable by lingering on the immorality of the first-person shooter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Turkey announced Friday that Syrian forces had shot down a Turkish warplane with two crew members over the Mediterranean, a potentially ominous turn for the worse in relations already frayed because of Turkey's support for Syrian rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. The Syrians later acknowledged their antiaircraft gunners had downed the plane, contending it had violated Syrian airspace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

CORRECTION APPENDED The United Nations reported intense fighting between the Syrian military and opposition forces in multiple locations across Syria on Monday and expressed alarm about civilians trapped in besieged rebel strongholds in the central city of Homs and northwestern village of Al Heffa. United Nations cease-fire monitors reported artillery shelling and machine-gun fire in the Khaldiyeh section of Homs as well as the towns of Rastan and Talbiseh, to the north. The monitors also reported the military's use of helicopter gunships -- a relatively new tactic employed by the Syrian Army, first observed by antigovernment activists in attacks on armed rebels around the major port of Latakia a week ago. The helicopter attacks are regarded as a significant escalation by the government side in the conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military announced on Wednesday that a senior officer caught on videotape striking a Danish pro-Palestinian activist in the face with an M-16 rifle during a standoff in the West Bank was to be dismissed from his post ''on moral grounds.'' In addition, the officer, Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner, will not receive a planned promotion to serve as the deputy commander of the military's prestigious officer school, and will not be eligible to serve in a commanding position for the next two years, the military said in a statement. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- Military investigators suspect that the American soldier charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder and other charges in connection with the attacks against Afghan civilians this month committed the shootings during two separate operations, a United States official said Saturday. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the continuing investigation, said that the investigators believed that the soldier, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, left his Afghanistan base and carried out the first set of killings, returned to the combat outpost and then, sometime later that evening, went out and attacked a second village. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Syrian troops shelled and raided opposition areas and clashed with rebel fighters around the country on Thursday. Activists put the nationwide toll at 59. Government attacks were reported in several cities and towns, including Homs, Hama and Dara'a. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition group based in London, said at least 10 civilians were killed in the northern town of Sarmeen when troops fired on their bus as they tried to flee to Turkey. Reflecting the growing militarization of the conflict, rebels killed at least 12 soldiers in attacks on checkpoints and convoys on Thursday, the opposition group said. The Syrian government dismissed a United Nations Security Council statement calling for a cease-fire, and activists said it was impossible to carry out under current conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports that the Egyptian deputy defense minister Major General Adel Emara has rubbished the allegations on the military of shooting protesters outside the state television building and blamed violent protesters for the clash.

TRIPOLI, Libya -- The sign on the wall reads ''Schoolbook Printing and Storage Warehouse,'' but the fact that the double gates in the wall have been crudely ripped off suggests that something more interesting might be inside. It turns out that the only books to be found in any of the three large buildings in the walled compound are manuals -- how to fire rocket launchers and wire-guided missiles, among others. The buildings are actually disguised warehouses full of munitions -- mortar shells, artillery rounds, anti-tank missiles and more -- thousands of pieces of military ordnance that are completely unguarded more than two weeks after the fall of the capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the firing initiated by the military sector of South Korea against North Korea after it found artillery shells allegedly fired by North Korea near the island of Pyongyang.

The article focuses on the breach of Israeli forces in the Lebanese border which put the Lebanese army and UNIFIL in the state of alert. It states that the Israeli patrols crossed the border from Israel to Lebanon indicating that the breach is part of a successive series of violations in Lebanon. It says that a 15-man Israeli patrol crossed the technical fence, which raised the level of alert of the UNIFIL and Lebanese troops. Moreover, the Lebanese and Israeli forces have an exchange of fire.

This section offers news briefs regarding the Middle East. Israel is reportedly working with the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama to formulate a new framework that will become the basis for restarting the peace negotiations with the Palestinians. The German newspaper, Der Spiegel, has reported that Israel's Mossad undertook the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist. Lebanese and Israeli soldiers exchanged fire on Israel's northern border after Lebanese soldiers reportedly opened fire on patrolling Israeli troops.

There were conflicting reports on Wednesday about a shooting at the border between Georgia and South Ossetia, a breakaway enclave under Russia's military protection. The government of Georgia accused ''occupation forces'' of firing on unarmed civilians it said were gathering herbs near the boundary, wounding two, one of them seriously. But South Ossetian officials said that members of the enclave's K.G.B., which patrols the boundary, discovered a group of Georgian youths inside the border. According to Res, an Ossetian news service, a firefight was begun from the Georgian side and Georgian citizens were arrested. South Ossetia gained de facto independence in 2008 after Russia and Georgia fought a short war over it and another rebellious territory. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GAZA -- A surge in fighting between Israel and Hamas continued for a third day on Saturday, with Israeli aircraft and artillery killing three more militants, including a senior commander. At least 18 people have been killed since Thursday, Palestinian officials said. Thirty rockets and mortar shells from Gaza hit southern Israel, with one damaging a house but causing no injuries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GAZA -- A Palestinian human rights group in Gaza took the unusual step this week of condemning the building and storage of anti-Israel rockets in densely populated areas, a practice that has led to injuries and deaths of civilians. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights said that it had investigated recent rocket explosions and found that locally produced projectiles had fallen on homes in Gaza or exploded in factories where they were made or stored. Shrapnel severely wounded several people, including a 22-year-old woman and her 7-month-old baby. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LIBYA Allied fighters struck targets in Tripoli on a fourth day of airstrikes, but forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi showed no signs of ending their sieges of cities held by rebels. Attacks by pro-Qaddafi forces were particularly intense in the western cities of Zintan and Misurata, where snipers and artillery killed 40 people, a rebel spokesman said. YEMEN President Ali Abdullah Saleh clung to power despite continuing antigovernment demonstrations. There were also signs of fragmentation among the nation's main military units. EGYPT After thousands of police officers demanding higher wages and the resignation of a new interior minister protested in Cairo, the upper floors of a building in the Interior Ministry compound became engulfed in flames. At least eight people were injured, security officials said, and 12 protesters were arrested on suspicion of arson. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]