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Roadside Bomb Kills Six Soldiers In Somalia’s Puntland

A military vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region on Sunday, killing at least six...

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US Defense Secretary Mattis Visits Strategic Djibouti

US Defense Secretary James Mattis arrived Sunday for a short visit to Djibouti, a strategically important country on...

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‘Assad Blames Ex Al-Qaeda Affiliate For Bombing Evacuees’

Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on Friday blamed the country's former Al-Qaeda affiliate for a deadly bombing against...

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A Catalogue of Terror In France

A known terror suspect shot dead a French policeman and wounded two others on Paris's Champs Elysees in an attack...

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Proud of Former President Rawlings Blasting Trump

Let me start by stating that I personally don’t know the former president, so this is not an article in support of a...

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Mali Extends State of Emergency As Jihadist Attacks Persist

A state of emergency that has been in force almost non-stop for 17 months in Mali was extended by 10 days from...

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US Pentagon Chief Meets Saudi King With Iran In Focus

US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis met Saudi King Salman on Wednesday, beginning a series of talks to reinvigorate the...

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Yemen Drone Strikes Kill Five Qaeda Suspects

Two strikes apparently carried out by US drones killed five suspected Al-Qaeda members in Yemen overnight, military...

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Mattis In Riyadh To Boost US-Saudi Alliance

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is in Saudi Arabia Wednesday to reinvigorate the Riyadh-Washington alliance, with both...

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‘Jihadists’ Kill 4 Soldiers In Mali’s North

Suspected jihadists on Tuesday killed four Malian soldiers in an attack in the restive northern region of Timbuktu, the...

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‘At Least 68 Children Among 126 Killed’ In Bus Bombing

At least 68 children were among 126 people killed in Saturday’s bomb attack on buses carrying evacuees from besieged...

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‘A Few Dozen’ US Troops Deployed To Somalia

The United States is deploying "a few dozen" troops to Somalia to assist the national army and conduct unspecified...

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What Is the ‘Mother of All Bombs’?

The United States has dropped a GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb, otherwise known as the 'Mother of All...

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Rights Group Slams Yemen Journalist’s Death Sentence

Reporters Without Borders said Friday it was "appalled" at a death sentence handed to a veteran journalist by a court...

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Rights Group Slams Yemen Journalist’s Death Sentence

Reporters Without Borders said Friday it was "appalled" at a death sentence handed to a veteran journalist by a court...

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Syria’s Assad Says Chemical Attack ‘100% Fabrication’

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has accused the West of fabricating a suspected chemical weapons attack that prompted...

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Bangladesh Buries Islamist Extremists After Hanging

Bangladeshi villagers buried the leader of a banned Islamist extremist outfit and two of his aides early Thursday,...

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Post-Election Vigilante Violence Flares In Ghana

Ghanaians were horrified when members of a vigilante group loosely affiliated with the ruling party stormed a court to...

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‘Troops Killed’ In Somali Blast

At least five soldiers have been killed and more than 15 wounded after a suicide bomber wearing a military uniform blew...