Tag: armed

  • Violence in Syria Shows Difficulty in Unifying Armed Forces

    Violence in Syria Shows Difficulty in Unifying Armed Forces

    Syria After Civil War Sectarian-driven killings of civilians this month displayed the government’s weak control over both its own forces and affiliated fighters, experts said. By Ben Hubbard Syria’s new president has spoken often about the urgency of merging the many armed groups that fought to topple the strongman Bashar al-Assad into a unified national…

  • Colombian city faces worst violence in decades as armed groups wreak havoc

    Colombian city faces worst violence in decades as armed groups wreak havoc

    Cúcuta imposes curfew as National Liberation Army (ELN) clashes with army in province bordering Venezuela Residents of a violence-torn province in northern Colombia are bracing for further bloodshed as a conflict between rival armed groups spread to a regional capital in scenes residents said they had not witnessed since the cartel unrest of the 1990s.…

  • Armed Bandits in Brazil Pursue New Loot: Ozempic

    Armed Bandits in Brazil Pursue New Loot: Ozempic

    Criminals are targeting pharmacies and stealing weight-loss medication in a country with body image insecurities and where many cannot afford the drugs. Criminals are targeting pharmacies and stealing weight-loss medication in a country with body image insecurities and where many cannot afford the drugs. A video monitoring system inside a pharmacy in São Paulo. Ozempic…

  • An armed man kills at least 10 people in a shooting rampage in Montenegro

    An armed man kills at least 10 people in a shooting rampage in Montenegro

    By  The Associated Press PODGORICA, Montenegro — At least 10 people, including two children, were killed and four others were seriously wounded on Wednesday in a shooting rampage that followed a bar brawl in a western Montenegrin city, officials said. The shooter was on the run. Police identified the attacker as 45-year-old Aco Martinovic. He…