Jordan executed two al-Qaeda prisoners before dawn, just hours after an online video purported to show Islamic State group militants burning a captured Jordanian pilot to death in a cage.

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A violent weather system that claimed 12 lives in Oklahoma and Arkansas amid tornadoes and flash floods gave way to clearing skies as the storms trekked toward the US east coast today.

A cruise ship with about 1,000 people on board was drifting in waters south of the Philippines today after a fire disabled its engines, the Philippine coast guard said. Five crew members were injured.

Gary Oldman has revealed most 'The Dark Knight Rises' has been shot in IMAX.

US Marines and Afghan soldiers stormed the Taliban-held town of Marjah today, as a major offensive began to break the extremists’ grip over a wide area of their southern heartland and re-establish government control.

A deadly storm system rumbled across the southern US over the weekend where tornadoes and severe weather killed at least 20 people in three states.

A fire broke out at the Indian army’s largest arms depot in Kashmir today, wounding at least 30 people, officials said, as shells exploded into the air and a massive plume of black smoke blanketed the Himalayan region.

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The US Navy today began its largest demonstration of force in the Gulf since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, deploying two aircraft carriers and conducting simulated aerial attacks.

Three parked car bombs exploded in central Baghdad today near a predominantly Shiite area packed with vendors, killing at least 38 people and wounding 84, officials said.

A truck driving at high speed slammed into a bus stop in a town south of Baghdad today, killing about 20 people and wounding 15, police said.

A series of attacks by suspected insurgents using guns, bombs and mortar shells killed a total of 13 Iraqis in Baghdad today.

At least 20 Iraqis were killed in clashes early today in Ramadi, where US ground troops and warplanes have conducted a series of operations over recent days targeting Sunni insurgents, police and medical workers said.

At least 10 people were killed when a suicide car bomber struck a wedding party in Baghdad today.

The Amish schoolhouse gunman opened fire on his 10 hostages just moments after demanding authorities get off the property, giving state troopers no time to try to save the girls.

A suicide bomber rammed a police checkpoint in northern Iraq with an explosives-laden vehicle today, killing more than a dozen people, the deadliest attack on a day when at least 25 people died in violence around the country.

At least five people were killed today in attacks in Iraq, while authorities continued to find more mutilated bodies in and around Baghdad – likely victims of the sectarian death squads that roam the capital area.

The official start to Ramadan was punctuated with violent attacks around Iraq today, including an assault on a police station and the discovery of more apparent victims of sectarian death squads in the capital.

A suicide truck bomb crashed into a Baghdad police headquarters today, killing seven and wounding at least double that many in a deadly 24 hours that saw more than 45 killings in Iraq, including two American soldiers, authorities said.

The bodies of 29 people who appeared to have been tortured before being killed have been found strewn around Baghdad, police said today.

The bodies of 29 people who appeared to have been tortured before being killed have been found around Baghdad, Iraqi police said today.

A parked car bomb targeting a police patrol in eastern Baghdad today killed at least eight people and wounded another 17.

An American military convoy was the target of a massive suicide car bombing that killed at least 10 people including two US soldiers in the Afghan capital today.

The top US general in Iraq today said Iraqi forces should be able to take over security with little coalition support as early as next year, even as a bombing at a Baghdad market killed at least 24 people and dozens of others were slain around the country.

A roadside bomb blast at Baghdad’s largest and oldest wholesale market district killed at least 24 people and injured 35 today, bringing the total killed around Iraq to 39 people.

A pipeline carrying oil by-products exploded in a southern Iraqi city today, sparking a massive fire and killing 34 people and injuring another 45.

An uneasy silence cloaked the streets of Baghdad today at the start of a two-day vehicle ban aimed at preventing attacks during a major Shiite religious gathering. Seven pilgrims hoping to join the rally were shot dead in a Sunni neighbourhood.

A car bomb exploded today in a crowd of day labourers waiting for jobs in central Baghdad, killing eight people and injuring 28.

Iraq’s prime minister sharply criticised a US-Iraqi attack on a Shiite militia stronghold in Baghdad, exposing a rift with his American partners on security tactics, as 24 people were killed today in a series of bombings and shooting.

Two dozen people have died in a surge of violence in northern Iraq, including 10 at a football game hit by a suicide car bombing, police said, while the country’s spiralling sectarian and political bloodshed killed at least 19 others elsewhere.

At least 19 people, including four soldiers, were killed in a suicide bombing today, as gunmen in military fatigues kidnapped 29 people, the latest victims of the violence and lawlessness sweeping Iraq, police said.

Two brothers serving in Iraq’s police forces were killed today when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle as they returned home in southeastern Baghdad, police said.

A bomb struck a market in eastern Baghdad today, killing five people and wounding 15.

Gunmen in Baghdad intercepted a minivan apparently carrying a coffin to the Shiite holy city of Najaf today, killing all 10 people on board.

Two car bombs exploded nearly simultaneously in a Shiite area of Baghdad today, killing at least seven people and wounding 17.

A parked car bomb struck a popular outdoor market today in the Shiite slum of Sadr City in Baghdad, killing at least 66 people and wounding dozens, authorities said.

The Iraqi government declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew today after insurgent gunmen set up roadblocks in central Baghdad and opened fire on US and Iraqi troops just north of the heavily fortified Green Zone.

A parked car bomb struck a Shiite slum in Baghdad today, killing at least two people and wounding three.

Two bombs aimed at police patrols exploded today in Baghdad as a series of attacks killed at least 24 people nationwide, while insurgent groups offered condolences for the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and warned they would continue his campaign of violence.

A suspected suicide car bomb hit a US-led coalition convoy in eastern Afghanistan today, wounding an unknown number of soldiers.

A suspected suicide car bomb hit a US-led coalition convoy in eastern Afghanistan today, wounding an unknown number of soldiers.

Iraq’s prime minister declared a state of emergency in once peaceful and oil-rich Basra, as the sectarian and militia violence engulfing the country’s capital spread to its southern economic heartland.

A car bomb exploded in an outdoor market in eastern Baghdad today, killing at least eight people and wounding 31.