We have weapons, grenades, and we are expert in manufacturing bombs.

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) reported that its soldiers had believed the youths were armed and were engaged in weapon smuggling.

Armed soldiers now sit in newsrooms, vetting the galleys before they go off to press.

They are armed with a mix of American, Yugoslavian, Soviet, and European made weaponry, vehicles, and military equipment.

No teams have toured Pakistan since March 2009, when militants attacked the touring Sri Lanka's Cricket team.

They are typically armed with automatic weapons, anti tank rocket launchers (shoulder fired) and various types of grenades.

On 23 June, a Palestinian policeman was killed as gunmen opened fire on a police station in Jenin.

Militant hoisting the Islamic State flag, replacing the Kurdish flag tweeted by an account believed to be associated with the Islamic State nynwa_news.

On New Year's Day gunmen on motorbikes ambushed and killed six female aid workers and a doctor in Khayber Pakhtunkhwa province.

In June, three armed men broke into a home in Mansehra and attempted to rape the person living there, whom they ended up shooting several times.

Armed gunmen wearing military uniforms then went into homes and started shooting people, including many children.

Parveen Rehman, a leading social worker in Pakistan was shot dead by unidentified gunmen amid rising ethnic, sectarian and criminal violence in Karachi city.

Yet, it is not a time for complacency. On August 16, 2012, a high value military base right outside the capital Islamabad was attacked by gunmen.

Like Bassel, so many young Syrians have taken mobile phones instead of weapons to fight their struggle against the regime who has treated them as they were carrying weapons and they were enemies of the country.

On the same day, a MINUSTAH soldier was killed and another injured during an attack by unidentified armed persons while manning a checkpoint near Terre Rouge.

Together with other aid agencies, IRC staff formed a convoy and MONUC offered armed vehicles to protect it. But when armed men stopped the convoy on the road, the Uruguayan peacekeepers from MONUC simply turned around and vanished, leaving the aid workers to their fate.

And in November, last year, eight people were killed in Al Ahsa, also in the Eastern province, when gunmen attacked a Shia community centre, where a religious ceremony was taking place.

Armed individuals resort to kidnapping to get jobs, free family members from prison, and exact revenge.

A number of shooting incidents occurred, and on 3 June, the Director General of the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Religious Affairs and his brother were killed when gunmen fired at their car near Nablus.

DOHA They are armed, I am not going to fight a losing battle and kill my men over a demolished shrine, said Fawzi Abd al Aali, the former Libyan interior minister, before he resigned last August.

A few weeks ago, armed men abducted the girls, who are between 15 and 18 years old, from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, about 130 kilometres west of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria.

Similarly, the local authorities and human rights groups in Bomi and Cape Mount Counties expressed concern about the level of insecurity at the Guthrie plantation and surrounding villages, where ex fighters are believed to be armed.

They had also been victims of crimes and abuses by armed illegal settlers, and on innumerable occasions had been brutally beaten, terrorized and even killed by Israeli settlers, whose crimes continued to go unpunished.

While the Islamists have been temporarily defeated, they are well armed and receive supplies from Libya via Algeria, which has suppressed Islamists at home but seems to turn a blind eye to their transit through its territory.

There are love stories in the passageways, defying the snipers who divide the city into two. There are love stories between the city and the refugee camps, and the towns on the Turkish borders. And there are armed rebels from the Free Syrian Army with girlfriends they cannot see until the regime falls.

On 14 February 2004, U Tin Oo was shifted from Kale Prison to house arrest. However, he is still not allowed to see anyone. His home in Yangon is being guarded by armed security personnel and his phone has been cut off.

Twenty two cases of looting by FNL combatants or identified armed men, often in military or police uniforms, were reported, including in Bujumbura mairie and the provinces of Bujumbura rural, Bubanza, Cibitoke and Muramvya.

According to the statement Abdelkhaleq Amran, Hisham Tarmoom, Tawfiq al Mansouri, Hareth Hamid, Hasan Annab, Akram al Walidi, Haytham al Shihab, Hisham al Yousefi and Essam Balgheeth have been detained since 9 June 2015 when they were arrested by armed men in a room from where they were working in Qasr Al Ahlam Hotel, Sana a.