The 21st Century Phenomenon
Taliban fighters wearing police uniforms and have attacked a prison holding hundreds in North-West Pakistan and escaped with 200 prisoners, including “hardcore militants”, officials said on 07/30/2013.
On what became almost routine in the Arab World more 1200 inmates have escaped from al-Kwafiya prison in the restive Eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, on 07/27/2013 night.
Over 500 inmates, have escaped, on Sunday 07/21/2013 night at about 21:30, from two Iraqi prisons after gunmen stormed two jails. Taji and Abu Ghraib, near Baghdad.
. Armed militants have attacked a prison in the Iraqi city of Tikrit, on Thursday 09/27/2012. killing at least 12 guards and freeing about...
About 400 prisoners have escaped from a jail in Northwest Pakistan, on Sunday 04/15/2012 pre-dawn, after it was attacked by Islamic militants, police officials said.
Attackers have stormed, on Wednesday 02/15/2012 at about 07:00, a federal prison in Nigeria with heavy gunfire and explosives, killing one guard and freeing at least 119 inmates.
Several al-Qaeda fighters, have escaped from a prison in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden after tunnelling their way out, officials have said on Monday 12/12/2011.
Militants from a radical Islamist group escaped from Lebanon’s main jail, on Saturday 08/13/2011, a security official told AFP.
Dozens of alleged Al Qaeda fighters have escaped from a prison in Mukalla, Hadramaut’s capital in Eastern Yemen, according to security officials on Wednesday 06/22/2011.
Afghan authorities has confirmed, on Monday 04/25/2011, that some 500 Taliban officers and commanders have escaped from Kandahar prison via a 350 metre-long tunnel.