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# Gunmen

Last year
2023
Fighting ongoing after police officer killed in attack in north Kosovo
24 Sep 2023
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31
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Nigerian forces hunt gunmen who killed 50 at church
6 Jun 2022
21.4k
9
At least 200 people killed by gunmen in northwest Nigeria
9 Jan 2022
14.4k
1
French aid workers among eight killed by gunmen in Niger
10 Aug 2020
17.6k
5
Gunmen kill priest and five parishioners during Mass in Burkina Faso church
12 May 2019
17.6k
24
90 students kidnapped by gunmen in Cameroon have been freed
7 Nov 2018
7.0k
1
11 injured after gunmen blast Save the Children office in Afghanistan
24 Jan 2018
6.3k
27
18 people killed in Kabul Intercontinental Hotel attack, including 14 foreigners
21 Jan 2018
15.6k
31
At least 235 dead in horror mosque bombing as leaders condemn 'barbaric attack'
24 Nov 2017
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123
17 people dead after gunmen open fire on restaurant in Burkina Faso
14 Aug 2017
11.2k
14
One of the Bataclan gunmen buried six months after suicide attack
21 May 2016
15.6k
21
Regency Hotel shooting was choreographed to send a clear and explicit message
Tom Clonan
8 Feb 2016
596
103
Video footage shows violent raid on safe house of drug lord 'El Chapo'
12 Jan 2016
18.2k
8
Manhunt in Paris after shooting of police officer at government building
16 Aug 2015
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42
Two Europeans among five killed, as gunman opens fire in Mali nightclub
7 Mar 2015
15.3k
16
Appeal for witnesses after armed men assaulted staff at Dublin bookmakers last night
14 Feb 2015
16.2k
32
132 students and 9 staff slaughtered in terror assault on Pakistan school
16 Dec 2014
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232
Armed jewel thieves take hostage and lead police on chase through Paris
26 Nov 2014
6.3k
2
Gunmen kill passenger on jet at Pakistan airport
24 Jun 2014
18.6k
42
Ukraine: Pro-Russia gunmen seize town hall
28 Apr 2014
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93
Pressure of further US sanctions prompts Russia to flex military muscle
19 Apr 2014
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54
Seven Red Cross workers kidnapped in northern Syria
13 Oct 2013
4.3k
21
Photos: More than 60 killed in violent clashes on Egypt's 'Friday of anger'
16 Aug 2013
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38
Mexico confirms 22 killed in coordinated attack on police
24 Jul 2013
8.6k
17
British national kidnapped in Lagos
19 Jul 2013
8.0k
15
Taliban kills nine foreign tourists in the Pakistani Himalayas
23 Jun 2013
9.8k
65
Gunmen kidnap two foreign tourists in Yemen
27 May 2013
4.8k
10
Gunmen abduct seven foreign workers in Nigeria
17 Feb 2013
14.3k
Irish hostage: Algeria troops surround Islamist hostage-takers
17 Jan 2013
4.3k
12
Baghdad: 14 killed as car bombs explode within minutes
31 Jul 2012
1.2k
2
Gunmen attack French uranium plant in Central African Republic
25 Jun 2012
2.9k
1
Syrian troops and gunmen clash in Damascus
19 Mar 2012
753
Kidnapped engineers killed during failed rescue attempt in Nigeria
8 Mar 2012
3.6k
6
Prosecutor and judge killed in northwest Syria
19 Feb 2012
1.1k
1
Three tourists kidnapped, another killed in Mali
25 Nov 2011
2.8k
4
Somali gunmen kidnap US, Danish aid workers
25 Oct 2011
190
Six suicide bombers attack government compound in Afghanistan
14 Aug 2011
87
Gunmen kill 14 in Honduras football "massacre"
31 Oct 2010
346
17 killed by gunmen at party in Mexico
19 Jul 2010
123