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One killed, two hurt in Morocco tourist town shooting
Nov 03, 2017 (AFP)
Two attackers wearing balaclavas shot the victim at a cafe in the town, a popular destination for foreign visitors. The man, who was hit in the head, died insta...
Ex-hostage Bergdahl spared prison time for desertion
Nov 03, 2017 (AFP)
After a politically charged trial that inflamed US divisions over the 16-year-old Afghan war, Colonel Jeffery Nance ordered Bergdahl to be dishonorably discharg...
Air strikes kill six in Syria 'truce zone': monitor
Nov 02, 2017 (AFP)
The strikes hit the town of Douma, which lies in the Eastern Ghouta region, where a "de-escalation zone" deal agreed by regime allies Iran and Russia and rebel ...
Pope Francis condemns war as 'useless tragedy'
Nov 02, 2017 (AFP)
"Never again war, never again this useless tragedy," said the pope inside the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery, south of Rome, where 7,680 American World War II so...
Colombia's FARC fields ex-rebel chief as presidential candidate
Nov 01, 2017 (AFP)
Rodrigo Londono, 58, better known by his nickname "Timochenko," will be the party's choice for the polls, a FARC spokesman told a news conference. The first rou...
Saudi-led strike kills 29 at Yemen market: rebel health office
Nov 01, 2017 (AFP)
The coalition, which has faced repeated international criticism over civilian casualties, said it was investigating the reports without claiming responsibility ...
General's slip spotlights US troop numbers in Syria
Oct 31, 2017 (AFP)
"I think it's a little over 4,000 US troops in Syria right now that are supporting efforts against," the Islamic State group, Army Major General James Jarrard t...
Mattis, Tillerson make case to Congress for continued authorization of military force
Oct 31, 2017 (UPI)
The testimony on Capitol Hill late Monday is the third hearing on the AUMF since the summer to discuss the possibility of passing a new authorization for use of...
At least 12 killed in east Libya air strike: medical source
Oct 31, 2017 (AFP)
Most of the dead, including women and children, were from the same family, the source at the Harish hospital said, adding that three of five people wounded were...
Santos condemns killing of indigenous leader
Oct 30, 2017 (AFP)
"Of course, we condemn the assassination as we would any assassination because to us life is the most precious thing," Santos told a joint press conference with...
Survey of Iraq, Afghanistan veterans finds half affected by suicide
Oct 27, 2017 (UPI)
The nonpartisan veteran organization had more than 4,300 IAVA veteran members participate in the study, a collaboration with George Mason University and Threesp...
Syria footballers take refuge in Iraq as tables turn
Oct 26, 2017 (AFP)
Nadim Sabagh remembers the Iraqis who played at Tishrin, his club in the northern metropolis of Aleppo that was to turn into a hotspot in Syria's devastating co...
US-led strikes claim another 51 civilian lives: coalition
Oct 26, 2017 (AFP)
In a statement Thursday, the coalition said that in September it completed an analysis of 127 reports of civilian deaths dating back to when international opera...
Colombia government and ELN begin fourth round of peace talks
Oct 26, 2017 (AFP)
"The fourth round begins with good omens," said Ecuadorian diplomat Juan Meriguet in a statement released by the country's foreign ministry. Meriguet attended t...
US-led coalition denies deadly Syria strikes
Oct 24, 2017 (AFP)
The strikes on Deir Ezzor, where Syrian regime forces backed by Russia have seized most of the city from IS, were reported late on Monday by a monitoring group,...
Israeli police arrest 120 ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting army draft
Oct 19, 2017 (AFP)
There were simultaneous disturbances in other parts of the city, including the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighbourhood, where police said the protestors had bl...
After Raqa, what's next for the US military in Syria
Oct 18, 2017 (AFP)
Since the US began bombing IS in Syria in late 2014 and supporting a predominantly Kurdish ground force, two successive administrations have side-stepped addres...
Israel strikes Syrian anti-aircraft battery in response to fire
Oct 16, 2017 (AFP)
Israeli planes were on what the military described as a "routine reconnaissance mission" over neighbouring Lebanon when an anti-aircraft missile was fired in th...
To beat jihadists, anti-IS Syria force goes back to basics
Oct 16, 2017 (AFP)
The Syrian Democratic Forces on the verge of seizing IS's former bastion Raqa have received sophisticated support from the US-led coalition, including air strik...
'Humbling' mission: Agency toils to ID 82,000 soldiers still MIA
Oct 11, 2017 (UPI)
It's the "humbling mission" of the Defense Prisoner of War, Missing in Action Accounting Agency, based at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii. On Oct. 25, the DPAA ...
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