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Local Qaeda leader in Yemen killed by US air strike
Jun 22, 2017 (AFP)
Abu Khattab al-Awlaqi was emir for Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Shabwa, responsible for planning and conducting attacks against civilians, the US milita...
Blast hits western Turkey near NATO facility: state media
Jun 22, 2017 (AFP)
The explosion took place near a cemetery and the NATO facility in the Konak district of Izmir around 7:50 am (0450 GMT), state-run Anadolu news agency said. The...
US-led coalition building jihadist database: envoy
Jun 22, 2017 (AFP)
Brett McGurk, the White House envoy to the anti-IS coalition, told an Israeli security conference the effort aimed to help prevent attacks like those recently c...
In Colombia, FARC 'nurses' want to trade arms for white coats
Jun 22, 2017 (AFP)
And now that the rebel army is demobilizing under a historic accord signed last year to end more than 50 years of war, Japon wants to study medicine, don the wh...
Jihadist destruction in Iraq and Syria
Jun 22, 2017 (AFP)
The Islamic State group (IS) says the Nuri mosque, where jihadist supremo Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi gave his first sermon as "caliph", was destroyed by a US air stri...
Shaken by bombing, Colombia pushes on with peace driv
Jun 20, 2017 (AFP)
The demobilization of the leftist FARC under a peace accord with the government and peace talks with the last active rebel force, the ELN, are meant to end more...
US-led coalition says Syria strike killed 'top IS cleric'l
Jun 20, 2017 (AFP)
"Coalition forces killed Turki Binali, the self-proclaimed 'Grand Mufti' or chief cleric of ISIS in an air strike May 31 in Mayadeen, Syria," the coalition said...
Russia to track coalition planes in Syria, halts US hotline
Jun 19, 2017 (AFP)
Moscow accused the US of failing to use the established communication hotline to warn Russia about the downing of the plane on Sunday. "The command of the coali...
Russia warns US after Syrian warplane downed
Jun 19, 2017 (AFP)
The United States moved quickly to contain an escalation, with a top general saying it would work to relaunch the "deconfliction" hotline established in 2015. T...
America's widening role in Syria's civil war
Jun 19, 2017 (AFP)
The United States insisted Monday it wants no broader role in Syria's civil war, and seeks only to destroy the Islamic State group, but the weekend incident sho...
Russia says 180 IS fighters killed in Syria strikes; Daraa truce for 48 hrs
Jun 17, 2017 (AFP)
"As a result of June 6 and 8 aerial strikes on targets belonging to IS fighters, IS field commanders Abu Omar al-Belgiki and Abu Yasin al-Masri were killed" in ...
Colombia: Attack blamed on ELN rebels kills a soldier, wounds 3
Jun 16, 2017 (AFP)
The attack late Thursday in the city of Tame, in northeastern Arauca department near the Venezuelan border, occurred as soldiers were driving across a bridge. T...
Switzerland conference offers 'historic opportunity' for Cyprus
Jun 16, 2017 (AFP)
"This is really an historic opportunity. We all know that it's going to be difficult when we are there," Espen Barth Eide said after talks in Nicosia with Presi...
Yemen rebels fire on UAE ship: coalition
Jun 15, 2017 (AFP)
The coalition, which intervened against Yemen's Huthi rebels and their allies more than two years ago, did not name the vessel or say whether it was civilian or...
Russia accuses US of deploying missiles in Syria
Jun 15, 2017 (AFP)
In a statement, the defence ministry said the "United States has moved two HIMARS multiple rocket launchers from Jordan to the Al-Tanaf US special forces base."...
Colombia's FARC reassures on disarmament deadline
Jun 15, 2017 (AFP)
"We made the political decision, we respect the agreement and we will apply it whatever happens," FARC's leader, Rodrigo Londono, also known as Timochenko, told...
HIMARS deploys to Syria for first time
Jun 14, 2017 (UPI)
The HIMARS will be stationed in the vicinity of the U.S.-Coalition training base at At Tarif to support operations there. The long-range battlefield missile rep...
Blast at British base in Cyprus injures police officer
Jun 13, 2017 (AFP)
The incident took place in the early hours of Tuesday on the Dhekelia British military base near the southern coastal town of Larnaca. "There was an explosion a...
Mattis 'shocked' by US military readiness
Jun 13, 2017 (AFP)
The defense secretary also warned that North Korea has become the most urgent threat to peace and security, and said -- without giving details -- that America m...
Slovenia hideouts spill Cold War secrets
Jun 12, 2017 (AFP)
In Kocevje, a forested region in the south, authorities have opened a massive 1950s bunker -- complete with tunnels, narrow passages and chunky blast-resistant ...
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