Police Officer Praised for Killing Angry Bear

TIMBUKTU, Mali At the entrance to this fabled city, Malian soldiers clutching Kalashnikov rifles didn't dare approach the truck. Instead, they shouted from a distance of 15 feet for the passengers to step out, lift up their shirts and turn around.

Kalashnikov-bearing men slaughtered at least 26 elephants in the Dzanga Bai World Heritage Site in the Central African Republic on May 6 the WWF said, urging the country to protect the animals after President Francois Bozize was overthrown in March.

Men armed with Kalashnikov rifles have massacred 26 elephants in the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park in the Central African Republic, say conservationists. WWF reported the number of carcasses, quoting its sources in the region. Concern about what was ...

A rebel fighter of the Syrian Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG) has a flower in his Russian made 'AK-47' kalashnikov gun as he holds a position in Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood on the Syrian city of Aleppo on May 9, 2013. The Obama ...

MARSEILLE — A gunman armed with a Kalashnikov shot dead three people and injured a fourth opening fire on cars and passersby in a residential part of the southern French town of Istres yesterday, police said after arresting him. A woman was ...

The 19-year-old man was arrested Thursday for the suspected killing of three people in the southern French town of Istres with a Kalashnikov rifle he is thought to have bought online. A second suspect was also arrested in Paris. A young man of 19 ...

The owner of the video alleges that the round is from a Kalashnikov rifle (AK-47). This doesn't sound believable unless the round was a ricochet or the propellant was defective. It is more likely that the round came from

Palestinian schoolboys are learning how to fire Kalashnikovs, throw grenades and plant improvised explosive devices as part of a programme run by Hamas' Education Ministry. The scheme has been criticised by Palestinian human rights groups, which ...

The new rifle is fitted with an up-to-date trigger and firing mechanism, and is compatible with 7.62×54mm and 7.62×51mm shells, as well as with advanced new ammunition currently developed by the Izhmash design-engineering center specialists, the ...