A British couple captured by Somali pirates more than one year ago has been released by their captors.

After just more than a year spent in Somalia, British citizens Paul and Rachel Chandler are finally going home. After a stop in Mogadishu to meet with the Somali prime minister, the two arrived at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport en route to their final destination: London.

NEW YORK CITY (November 9, 2010) This past September, the Center for Security Policy issued an abbreviated report titled Shariah - The Threat to America, An Exercise in Competitive Analysis, Report of Team B II. In a press conference today, CSP is releasing the full, unexpurgated study, and will have four of the authors on hand to discuss it. A great summary of both versions can be read here.

A Nigerian militant group has released the nationalities of seven hostages abducted Sunday from an offshore oil rig in Akwa Ibom state.

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said Friday its hostages are two Americans, two French nationals, one Canadian and two Indonesians. MEND says they are in good health.

The seven were abducted during an attack on a rig operated by Afren. At least two of the rig's crew members were wounded in the attack and left on the rig.

Security officials in Pakistan say a powerful bomb has ripped through a police compound in the country's largest city, Karachi, killing at least 15 people and wounding 100 others. The Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack.

Police in Karachi say a group of militants opened fire on the Crime Investigation Department compound before detonating a massive car bomb. The explosion destroyed much of the police building, damaged nearby houses and left a large crater in the road.

Security officials in Tajikistan say a counterterrorism operation against militants in the country's east is nearly complete.

State National Security Committee chairman Saymumin Yatimov said Tuesday the Rasht Valley has been largely cleared of militants, with authorities now in control of the area.

There is no independent verification of Yatimov's claim.

The chairperson of the Kenyan National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) has dismissed as preposterous accusations her organization bribed and coached witnesses to implicate suspended Higher Education minister William Ruto in the 2008 post-election violence.

Florence Simbiri-Jaoko told VOA her organization has no interest in implicating anyone in Kenya’s post-election violence that led to the deaths of at least 1,300 people.

An oil company says gunmen in Nigeria's troubled Niger Delta region have attacked an offshore rig, kidnapping five people and wounding two others.

The company that runs the rig, Afren, has not confirmed the nationalities of those kidnapped. But security sources say they are two Americans, two French and one Canadian.

Gunmen in speedboats late Sunday attacked the oil rig, located about 12 kilometers off the coast of Nigeria's Akwa Ibom state.

The company said the two wounded employees have leg injuries and were flown by helicopter to a clinic on shore.

An Eighth Army officer was awarded the Soldier's Medal Nov. 5 during a ceremony at Fort Hood, Texas, for his actions during the Nov. 5, 2009 shooting incident there that left 13 Soldiers dead and 32 wounded.

Maj. Steven J. Richter, chief of medical logistics for Eighth Army, was assigned as the chief of operations and deployment medicine at Fort Hood when Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is accused of opening fire at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center.

Richter testified during Hasan's Article 32 hearing Oct. 20 via tele-conference about his actions that day.

Pakistani officials say a suicide bomb has ripped through a mosque in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 70 people and critically wounding more than 80 people. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

The bombing occurred in Darra Adam Khel, an area near Pakistan's tribal regions where Taliban-led militants have been active.

Hundreds of worshippers had gathered at the Sunni mosque, which was severely damaged in the attack.