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Pakistan Victims Call For Attack Masterminds To Hang

Anger was growing in Pakistan Tuesday as the grief-stricken relatives of 26 people killed by a suicide bomber in Lahore...

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Blast Kills At Least 25, Injures Dozens In Pakistan’s Lahore

An explosion killed at least 25 people and injured dozens in a busy vegetable market in the Pakistani city of Lahore...

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Blast Kills At Least 20, Injures Dozens In Pakistan’s Lahore

An explosion killed at least 20 people and injured dozens in a busy vegetable market in the Pakistani city of Lahore...

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Lebanon Army To Act Against Militants Near Border

Lebanese security forces will launch an operation against militants near informal refugee camps in the country's east...

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In China, High Security For Off-Road Race

Dozens of police officers wearing bulletproof vests and toting assault rifles guard the camp of an international...

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‘Taliban’ Suicide Bomber Kills Two In NW Pakistan

A suicide bomber struck a vehicle carrying members of the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) in Pakistan's northwest on...

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World Jihad’s Low-Profile Boss

Discreet in his youth and invisible as the world's most wanted man, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi rose through the ranks quietly...

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Heavy Regime Bombardment Reported Near Damascus

Government forces carried out heavy bombardment Friday of a rebel-held district on the eastern edge of the Syrian...

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UN-OPCW Probe of Syria Sarin Gas Attack Comes Under Heavy Pressure

A joint UN-OPCW panel tasked with determining who was behind the deadly sarin gas attack in the Syrian town of Khan...

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‘Alarming’ Number of Threats Over Suspected IS-Links In Iraq’s…

The UN voiced alarm Friday at rising threats against civilians in Mosul suspected of ties to the Islamic State group as...

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Sarin Used In Deadly Attack On Syria Town In April

A fact-finding mission by the UN's chemical watchdog, the OPCW, concluded that sarin was used as a chemical weapon in...

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Thai Court Acquits ‘popcorn Gunman’ Accused of Protest Bloodshed

A Thai appeals court on Tuesday overturned a murder conviction of a gunman who gained national notoriety for allegedly...

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World Bank To Give Afghanistan $520 Mn Credit

The World Bank on Tuesday said it had approved a $520 million plan to help Afghanistan, which has been weakened by the...

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Australia Builds Separate Prison Wing For Extremist Inmates

Australia's largest state Sunday said it was building a separate prison wing for extremist inmates to tackle...

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Hamas Denies It Built Tunnel Under UN Schools In Gaza

Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas has denied that it or any other militant group built a tunnel under two UN schools...

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Five Facts On Targeted IS-Held Syrian City of Raqa

As US-backed Arab and Kurdish forces broke into the Islamic State group's bastion of Raqa on Tuesday for the first...

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US-Led Strike Kills 21 Civilians Fleeing Syria’s Raqa

A US-led coalition air strike killed 21 civilians on Monday as they tried to escape the Islamic State group's Syrian...

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US, Australian Officials Warn of Returning Foreign Fighters

Top US and Australian officials on Monday warned battle-hardened and angry foreign fighters may return to Southeast...

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Residents of Historic Israeli Settlement Say They Have Returned Home

For Yohanan Ben Yaakov, taking part in the creation of the first Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank in 1967...