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Iraq Condemns US Strikes, Calls It "Violation Of Sovereignty"
After the US airstrikes targeting militia positions in both Iraq and Syria, the spokesman for the commander-in-chief of the Iraqi armed forces said these strikes come at a time when Iraq is "striving to ensure stability in the region"
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Man Shot In US During Protest Over Statue
A man was shot Monday as a heavily armed militia group attempted to defend a statue from US protestors in New Mexico, officials and media reports said.
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Turkey Faces "Big Sanctions" Over Actions In Syria: Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump warned Monday that Turkey faces imminent sanctions over its incursion into northeastern Syria against Kurdish militia, but also signalled that Washington would avoid armed conflict with Ankara.
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Germany Bans Arms Exports To Turkey Over Its Military Offensive In Syria
Germany has banned arms exports to Turkey over its assault against Kurdish YPG militia in Syria, a foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Saturday.
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"Cuddled In Kim Jong Un's Arms": North Koreans Seek Unity Ahead Of Summit
Sixteen-year-old Ri Jin Ryong, a member of North Korea's paramilitary Worker-Peasant Red Guards militia, says he has one message for South Koreans if the two countries ever reunite
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ISIS Ousted From Yazidi Villages West Of Mosul: Kurdish-Yazidi Force
A mixed Kurdish and Yazidi armed force said on Monday it had dislodged ISIS terrorists from five Yazidi villages west of Mosul in an offensive that began on Saturday.
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan Says US Arming Syrian Kurdish Militia
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States of sending more weapons to a Syrian Kurdish militia in defiance of Ankara's repeated insistence it is a "terrorist" organisation.
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Armed Militia, Bundy Brothers Take Over Federal Building In Rural Oregon
An unpredictable new chapter in the wars over federal land use in the West unfolded on Sunday after a group of armed activists split off from an earlier protest march and occupied part of a national wildlife refuge in remote southeastern Oregon.
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Eyeing Iranian Arms in Iraq, US Warns on Sectarian Tensions
The United States is concerned about how heavy Iranian weaponry might be used inside Iraq, including as Iran-backed militia help the offensive to retake the Iraqi city of Tikrit from Islamic State militants, a US official said on Tuesday.
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Iraq Army Attacks Islamic State Strongholds in Baghdad
Iraq's armed forces, backed by Shi'ite militia, attacked Islamic State strongholds north of Baghdad today at the start of a campaign aimed at driving them out of the mainly Sunni Muslim province of Salahuddin.
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89 School Children Abducted by South Sudan Militia: UNICEF
An unidentified South Sudan armed group has abducted at least 89 boys, some as young as 13, from their homes in the north of the country, UNICEF said today.
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Libyan Army, Residents Battle Islamist Militants in Benghazi
Libyan army troops and armed residents clashed with Islamist fighters in the eastern port of Benghazi on Wednesday, killing at least 13 people, a day after a renegade former general who backs the army vowed to retake the city from the militants.
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Tripoli under Militia Control as Libya Chaos Deepens
Libya's toothless outgoing government admitted on Monday from its safe refuge in the east of the country that it has in effect lost control of Tripoli to armed militias.
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Libyan Armed Faction Takes Over US Embassy Annex in Tripoli
Members of a Libyan militia have taken over an abandoned annex of the US Embassy in Tripoli but have not broken into the main compound where the United States evacuated all of its staff last month, US officials said on Sunday.
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Libyan Militia Fire Rockets Into Affluent Tripoli Residential District
Libyan militiamen fired rockets into an affluent district of Tripoli early on Tuesday, moving a battle with a rival armed faction closer to the centre of the capital after fighters on one side came under air attack.
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Iraq Condemns US Strikes, Calls It "Violation Of Sovereignty"
After the US airstrikes targeting militia positions in both Iraq and Syria, the spokesman for the commander-in-chief of the Iraqi armed forces said these strikes come at a time when Iraq is "striving to ensure stability in the region"
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Man Shot In US During Protest Over Statue
A man was shot Monday as a heavily armed militia group attempted to defend a statue from US protestors in New Mexico, officials and media reports said.
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Turkey Faces "Big Sanctions" Over Actions In Syria: Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump warned Monday that Turkey faces imminent sanctions over its incursion into northeastern Syria against Kurdish militia, but also signalled that Washington would avoid armed conflict with Ankara.
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Germany Bans Arms Exports To Turkey Over Its Military Offensive In Syria
Germany has banned arms exports to Turkey over its assault against Kurdish YPG militia in Syria, a foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Saturday.
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"Cuddled In Kim Jong Un's Arms": North Koreans Seek Unity Ahead Of Summit
Sixteen-year-old Ri Jin Ryong, a member of North Korea's paramilitary Worker-Peasant Red Guards militia, says he has one message for South Koreans if the two countries ever reunite
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ISIS Ousted From Yazidi Villages West Of Mosul: Kurdish-Yazidi Force
A mixed Kurdish and Yazidi armed force said on Monday it had dislodged ISIS terrorists from five Yazidi villages west of Mosul in an offensive that began on Saturday.
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan Says US Arming Syrian Kurdish Militia
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States of sending more weapons to a Syrian Kurdish militia in defiance of Ankara's repeated insistence it is a "terrorist" organisation.
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Armed Militia, Bundy Brothers Take Over Federal Building In Rural Oregon
An unpredictable new chapter in the wars over federal land use in the West unfolded on Sunday after a group of armed activists split off from an earlier protest march and occupied part of a national wildlife refuge in remote southeastern Oregon.
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Eyeing Iranian Arms in Iraq, US Warns on Sectarian Tensions
The United States is concerned about how heavy Iranian weaponry might be used inside Iraq, including as Iran-backed militia help the offensive to retake the Iraqi city of Tikrit from Islamic State militants, a US official said on Tuesday.
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Iraq Army Attacks Islamic State Strongholds in Baghdad
Iraq's armed forces, backed by Shi'ite militia, attacked Islamic State strongholds north of Baghdad today at the start of a campaign aimed at driving them out of the mainly Sunni Muslim province of Salahuddin.
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89 School Children Abducted by South Sudan Militia: UNICEF
An unidentified South Sudan armed group has abducted at least 89 boys, some as young as 13, from their homes in the north of the country, UNICEF said today.
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Libyan Army, Residents Battle Islamist Militants in Benghazi
Libyan army troops and armed residents clashed with Islamist fighters in the eastern port of Benghazi on Wednesday, killing at least 13 people, a day after a renegade former general who backs the army vowed to retake the city from the militants.
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Tripoli under Militia Control as Libya Chaos Deepens
Libya's toothless outgoing government admitted on Monday from its safe refuge in the east of the country that it has in effect lost control of Tripoli to armed militias.
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Libyan Armed Faction Takes Over US Embassy Annex in Tripoli
Members of a Libyan militia have taken over an abandoned annex of the US Embassy in Tripoli but have not broken into the main compound where the United States evacuated all of its staff last month, US officials said on Sunday.
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Libyan Militia Fire Rockets Into Affluent Tripoli Residential District
Libyan militiamen fired rockets into an affluent district of Tripoli early on Tuesday, moving a battle with a rival armed faction closer to the centre of the capital after fighters on one side came under air attack.
