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"Collected Bodies For 3 Days": 600 Massacred Within Hours In This Country
About 600 people were killed within a few hours by members affiliated with Al-Qaeda in an August attack on the town of Barsalogho in Burkina Faso, reports claimed on Friday.
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Teen ISIS Supporter Admits To Planning "Bloodbath" At Taylor Swift Concert
An Austrian teenager arrested over an alleged plot to strike a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna planned to carry out a suicide attack that would have caused a "bloodbath" and had vowed loyalty to Islamic State (IS), authorities said on Thursday.
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Opinion | What's Behind Saudi Arabia's Silence On Gaza? An Image Makeover
Despite Saudi Arabia's growing clarity on the war in Gaza and Israeli actions, the past seven months have been something of a balancing act for the Kingdom.
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Video Shows Last US Strike In Afghanistan May Have Targeted Aid Worker: Report
A video analysis shows the United States may have mistakenly targeted an aid worker rather than Islamic State fighters in its final strike in Afghanistan which killed 10 civilians, The New York Times said Friday.
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"Rocket Came, Hit Car Full Of Kids": US Strike Killed 10 Of Kabul Family
The US said Sunday it had destroyed an explosive-laden vehicle in an air strike, thwarting a bid by the Islamic State to detonate a car bomb at Kabul airport. On Monday, it looked as if they could have made a terrible mistake.
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Afghanistan-Taliban Crisis Highlights: US Drone Strike Targets ISIS "Planner" In Afghanistan: Pentagon
US forces helping to evacuate Afghans desperate to flee Taliban rule were on alert for more attacks on Friday after at least one Islamic State suicide bomber killed 170 people including 13 US soldiers outside the gates of Kabul airport.
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Afghanistan-Taliban Crisis Highlights: At Least 85 Killed In Kabul Blasts, Joe Biden Warns Bombers
Islamic State suicide bombers attacked crowds of people gathered Thursday outside Kabul airport hoping to flee Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, killing dozens including 13 US troops, as President Joe Biden vowed to hunt down those responsible.
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505 Coronavirus Cases In India In 24 hours, 3,577 Cases So Far: 10 Points
Over 500 novel coronavirus cases have been reported in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of cases past the 3,500 mark, the Health Ministry said on Sunday evening. At least 83 deaths have been linked to the COVID-19 virus and 275 people have been discharged after receiving treatment. On Friday India recorded the highest number of fresh case...
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Qatar's Isolation Violates Islamic Values, Says Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan denounced the isolation of Qatar by neighbouring states as a violation of Islamic values and tantamount to a 'death penalty' against Doha in a crisis reverberating through the Middle East and beyond.
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Turkish President Erdogan Says Qatar Isolation Violates Islamic Values
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan denounced the isolation of Qatar by neighbouring states as a violation of Islamic values and tantamount to a "death penalty" against Doha in a crisis reverberating through the Middle East and beyond.
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'Your Turn Will Come': ISIS Video Threatens Attacks In Saudi Arabia
The ISIS threatened attacks in Saudi Arabia after the terror group claimed responsibility for assaults in Tehran that killed at least 17 people, Site Intelligence monitoring group reported on Friday.
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Atop Palmyra's Damaged Theatre, Syrian Musicians Sing Of Return
Atop the ruins of Syria's famed Palmyra theatre, recently recaptured from the Islamic State group, teenage musician Angel Dayoub sings an old Arabic favourite: "We're coming back, oh love, we're coming back."
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Opinion: Pakistan Is The Crisis Flying Under The Radar
The set of foreign-policy challenges headed like a freight train at the Trump administration is obvious: the Islamic State and the associated tragedy of Syria; a bubbling North Korea led by an unpredictable dictator with a fistful of nuclear weapons; an angry China hypersensitive about Taiwan and the South China Sea; and Russian cyber-activity roil...
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US Troops Carry Out Ground Raid Against ISIS In Syria
U.S. Special Operations troops carried out a ground operation in eastern Syria aimed at capturing an Islamic State militant, U.S. officials said Monday.
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Iraqi Forces Retake Key Town South Of ISIS-Stronghold Mosul
Iraqi forces today pushed the Islamic State group from Qayyarah, a northern town considered strategic for any future offensive against the jihadists' last stronghold of Mosul.
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"Collected Bodies For 3 Days": 600 Massacred Within Hours In This Country
About 600 people were killed within a few hours by members affiliated with Al-Qaeda in an August attack on the town of Barsalogho in Burkina Faso, reports claimed on Friday.
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Teen ISIS Supporter Admits To Planning "Bloodbath" At Taylor Swift Concert
An Austrian teenager arrested over an alleged plot to strike a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna planned to carry out a suicide attack that would have caused a "bloodbath" and had vowed loyalty to Islamic State (IS), authorities said on Thursday.
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Opinion | What's Behind Saudi Arabia's Silence On Gaza? An Image Makeover
Despite Saudi Arabia's growing clarity on the war in Gaza and Israeli actions, the past seven months have been something of a balancing act for the Kingdom.
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Video Shows Last US Strike In Afghanistan May Have Targeted Aid Worker: Report
A video analysis shows the United States may have mistakenly targeted an aid worker rather than Islamic State fighters in its final strike in Afghanistan which killed 10 civilians, The New York Times said Friday.
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"Rocket Came, Hit Car Full Of Kids": US Strike Killed 10 Of Kabul Family
The US said Sunday it had destroyed an explosive-laden vehicle in an air strike, thwarting a bid by the Islamic State to detonate a car bomb at Kabul airport. On Monday, it looked as if they could have made a terrible mistake.
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Afghanistan-Taliban Crisis Highlights: US Drone Strike Targets ISIS "Planner" In Afghanistan: Pentagon
US forces helping to evacuate Afghans desperate to flee Taliban rule were on alert for more attacks on Friday after at least one Islamic State suicide bomber killed 170 people including 13 US soldiers outside the gates of Kabul airport.
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Afghanistan-Taliban Crisis Highlights: At Least 85 Killed In Kabul Blasts, Joe Biden Warns Bombers
Islamic State suicide bombers attacked crowds of people gathered Thursday outside Kabul airport hoping to flee Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, killing dozens including 13 US troops, as President Joe Biden vowed to hunt down those responsible.
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505 Coronavirus Cases In India In 24 hours, 3,577 Cases So Far: 10 Points
Over 500 novel coronavirus cases have been reported in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of cases past the 3,500 mark, the Health Ministry said on Sunday evening. At least 83 deaths have been linked to the COVID-19 virus and 275 people have been discharged after receiving treatment. On Friday India recorded the highest number of fresh case...
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Qatar's Isolation Violates Islamic Values, Says Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan denounced the isolation of Qatar by neighbouring states as a violation of Islamic values and tantamount to a 'death penalty' against Doha in a crisis reverberating through the Middle East and beyond.
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Turkish President Erdogan Says Qatar Isolation Violates Islamic Values
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan denounced the isolation of Qatar by neighbouring states as a violation of Islamic values and tantamount to a "death penalty" against Doha in a crisis reverberating through the Middle East and beyond.
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'Your Turn Will Come': ISIS Video Threatens Attacks In Saudi Arabia
The ISIS threatened attacks in Saudi Arabia after the terror group claimed responsibility for assaults in Tehran that killed at least 17 people, Site Intelligence monitoring group reported on Friday.
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Atop Palmyra's Damaged Theatre, Syrian Musicians Sing Of Return
Atop the ruins of Syria's famed Palmyra theatre, recently recaptured from the Islamic State group, teenage musician Angel Dayoub sings an old Arabic favourite: "We're coming back, oh love, we're coming back."
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Opinion: Pakistan Is The Crisis Flying Under The Radar
The set of foreign-policy challenges headed like a freight train at the Trump administration is obvious: the Islamic State and the associated tragedy of Syria; a bubbling North Korea led by an unpredictable dictator with a fistful of nuclear weapons; an angry China hypersensitive about Taiwan and the South China Sea; and Russian cyber-activity roil...
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US Troops Carry Out Ground Raid Against ISIS In Syria
U.S. Special Operations troops carried out a ground operation in eastern Syria aimed at capturing an Islamic State militant, U.S. officials said Monday.
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Iraqi Forces Retake Key Town South Of ISIS-Stronghold Mosul
Iraqi forces today pushed the Islamic State group from Qayyarah, a northern town considered strategic for any future offensive against the jihadists' last stronghold of Mosul.
