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Russia Dagestan Shooting: Five Women Killed In Attack On Churchgoers

Five women have been killed in a shooting at a church in Russia’s volatile republic of Dagestan. Five others,...

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Downed Russian Pilot ‘detonated Grenade’

Russian media have lauded a pilot killed in Syria as a hero, saying he detonated his grenade to avoid being captured by...

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UN Warns Ghana Over Threat of Mercenaries, Vigilante Groups

Ghana’s peace may be threatened by the influx of private security companies, a UN expert group on mercenaries has...

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Pakistani Taliban Launches Women’s Magazine

The Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday released the first edition of a magazine for women, apparently aiming to convince its...

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At Least 20 Killed In Shiite Mosque Attack In Afghanistan’s Herat

A suicide bomber and a gunman killed more than 20 people at a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan's main western city of Herat...

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IS Claims Attack On Iraq Embassy In Kabul

The Islamic State group claimed it had attacked the Iraqi embassy in Kabul Monday, as a series of explosions and the...

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Zakir Musa, 23, Named Leader of the New Al-Qaeda Terror Group, Kashmir

Terror in Kashmir has a new name after a prominent young militant was named as the head of a new Al-Qaeda-linked group...

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Ceasefire Reached On Lebanon-Syria Border

Fighting between Lebanon's Hezbollah movement and a former Al-Qaeda affiliate on the Syria-Lebanon border halted...

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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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Jihadist Takeover In Syria’s Idlib Raises Attack Prospect

The jihadist takeover of Syria's key Idlib province raises the prospect that the region could become the next target of...

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Kuwait MP Proposes Jail Terms For Hezbollah Backers

A Kuwaiti Islamist member of parliament on Monday proposed legislation calling for members and supporters of Lebanon's...

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Lebanon’s Hezbollah Says Syria Border Assault ‘nearing End’

Lebanese movement Hezbollah said on Monday its fight against militant groups along the eastern border with war-ravaged...

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Jihadists Control Syria’s Idlib After Rebel Pull-Out

A former Al-Qaeda affiliate took control of the northern Syrian city of Idlib on Sunday two days after agreeing to end...

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Martial Law Extended In Mindanao

Legislators in the Philippines have voted overwhelmingly to extend martial law to deal with an Islamist insurgency in...

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Lebanese Mediator Killed In Fighting Near Syrian Border

A Lebanese mediator was killed on Saturday in a second day of fighting between the powerful Hezbollah group and...

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Trump To Host Lebanese Prime Minister

US President Donald Trump will meet Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in Washington next week for talks on issues...

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Jihadists Battle Rebels For Control of Key Syria Province

A former Al-Qaeda affiliate was locked in fierce clashes Friday with a leading rebel group for control of one of the...

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Jihadist-Rebel Clashes Intensify In Syria’s Idlib

Clashes in Syria's Idlib province between a powerful jihadist group and a key rebel faction intensified overnight,...

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UN Adds Syrian Armed Groups To Sanctions Blacklist

The UN Security Council on Thursday added two armed groups in Syria, two money exchange businesses and four individuals...