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Kabul Blasts: 40 Dead, Dozens Injured In Multiple Explosions In Afghan Capital
At least 40 people were killed and many others wounded in multiple blasts at a Shiite cultural centre in Kabul on Thursday, officials said, in the latest violence to hit the Afghan capital.
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Terror In Barcelona Leaves At Least A Dozen Dead And Scores Injured; Second Potential Attack Thwarted
Spain came under repeated attack starting Thursday in what authorities called linked terrorist incidents, when a driver swerved a van into crowds in Barcelona's historic Las Ramblas district, killing more than a dozen people and injuring scores of others. Early Friday, an attempted attack unfolded in a town down the coast. The Islamic State claimed...
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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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ISIS Seizes 550 Families As Human Shields In Mosul: UN
ISIS fighters have taken 550 families from villages around Mosul and are holding them close to Islamic State (ISIL) locations in the Iraqi city, probably as human shields, the U.N. human rights office said on Friday.
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Kashmir Keeps Coming Up In India's ISIS Story, Worrisome, Say Sources
Is there an Islamic State link to the continuing violence in the Jammu and Kashmir, in which more than 70 people died over the last 60 days? Top sources in the government said while a direct link between the IS and the current unrest cannot be drawn, there were pointers that are worrisome.
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Offensives Against ISIS Could Displace 2.3 Million Iraqis: UN
Upcoming military offensives in Iraq against Islamic State, including an assault on the northern city of Mosul, could displace at least 2.3 million people, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Iraq said on Thursday.
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Iraq Risks Losing Generation Due To Lack Of Schools, Healthcare: UNICEF
Preventing violence from depriving millions of children in Iraq of education and decent healthcare is a key humanitarian priority for the country in 2016, a senior UN official said on Wednesday.
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ISIS' Persecution Of Yazidis Is Genocide: Hillary Clinton
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday said that ISIS violence against Iraqi Yazidis and other religious minorities in the Middle East is genocide.
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Pope Francis Expected To Call For Reconciliation On Christmas Day
Pope Francis was expected to appeal for reconciliation of fractured communities in his Christmas Day blessing today, as the world takes stock of a year of violence and suffering that saw hundreds of thousands flee their homes.
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Iraq Military Asks Residents of ISIS-Controlled Ramadi To Leave City
Iraqi military planes dropped leaflets on Sunday on Ramadi, asking residents to leave within 72 hours the western city which is under the control of Islamic State militants, an army spokesman said.
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Pentagon Chief In Afghanistan As Violence Escalates
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter arrived in Afghanistan Friday for meetings with military commanders, as the security situation deteriorates with a surge in Taliban attacks and the creeping emergence of the Islamic State group.
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Minnesota Man Whose Tweets Urged Jihad Surrenders in Africa
A Minnesota man who joined al-Shabab in Somalia more than seven years ago and more recently went online to urge others to carry out violence on behalf of the Islamic State group has turned himself in to authorities in Africa, the U.S. State Department said Monday.
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Barack Obama Appeals to Silicon Valley for Help With Online Anti-Extremist Campaign
President Barack Obama on Sunday called on Silicon Valley to help address the threat of terrorist groups using social media and electronic communications to plan and promote violence, setting up renewed debate over personal privacy online.
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UN Chief Urges Russia, US to Cooperate on Terrorism
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Russia and the United States on Sunday to cooperate in rooting out terrorism and said he would unveil a comprehensive plan to fight extremism and violence early next year.
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Barack Obama Visits Asian Refugee Center Amid Raging Debate in US
Pushing back against efforts to bar Syrian refugees from resettling in the US, President Barack Obama vowed Saturday that his country will be a welcoming place for millions fleeing violence around the world "as long as I'm president."
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Kabul Blasts: 40 Dead, Dozens Injured In Multiple Explosions In Afghan Capital
At least 40 people were killed and many others wounded in multiple blasts at a Shiite cultural centre in Kabul on Thursday, officials said, in the latest violence to hit the Afghan capital.
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Terror In Barcelona Leaves At Least A Dozen Dead And Scores Injured; Second Potential Attack Thwarted
Spain came under repeated attack starting Thursday in what authorities called linked terrorist incidents, when a driver swerved a van into crowds in Barcelona's historic Las Ramblas district, killing more than a dozen people and injuring scores of others. Early Friday, an attempted attack unfolded in a town down the coast. The Islamic State claimed...
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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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ISIS Seizes 550 Families As Human Shields In Mosul: UN
ISIS fighters have taken 550 families from villages around Mosul and are holding them close to Islamic State (ISIL) locations in the Iraqi city, probably as human shields, the U.N. human rights office said on Friday.
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Kashmir Keeps Coming Up In India's ISIS Story, Worrisome, Say Sources
Is there an Islamic State link to the continuing violence in the Jammu and Kashmir, in which more than 70 people died over the last 60 days? Top sources in the government said while a direct link between the IS and the current unrest cannot be drawn, there were pointers that are worrisome.
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Offensives Against ISIS Could Displace 2.3 Million Iraqis: UN
Upcoming military offensives in Iraq against Islamic State, including an assault on the northern city of Mosul, could displace at least 2.3 million people, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Iraq said on Thursday.
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Iraq Risks Losing Generation Due To Lack Of Schools, Healthcare: UNICEF
Preventing violence from depriving millions of children in Iraq of education and decent healthcare is a key humanitarian priority for the country in 2016, a senior UN official said on Wednesday.
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ISIS' Persecution Of Yazidis Is Genocide: Hillary Clinton
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday said that ISIS violence against Iraqi Yazidis and other religious minorities in the Middle East is genocide.
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Pope Francis Expected To Call For Reconciliation On Christmas Day
Pope Francis was expected to appeal for reconciliation of fractured communities in his Christmas Day blessing today, as the world takes stock of a year of violence and suffering that saw hundreds of thousands flee their homes.
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Iraq Military Asks Residents of ISIS-Controlled Ramadi To Leave City
Iraqi military planes dropped leaflets on Sunday on Ramadi, asking residents to leave within 72 hours the western city which is under the control of Islamic State militants, an army spokesman said.
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Pentagon Chief In Afghanistan As Violence Escalates
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter arrived in Afghanistan Friday for meetings with military commanders, as the security situation deteriorates with a surge in Taliban attacks and the creeping emergence of the Islamic State group.
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Minnesota Man Whose Tweets Urged Jihad Surrenders in Africa
A Minnesota man who joined al-Shabab in Somalia more than seven years ago and more recently went online to urge others to carry out violence on behalf of the Islamic State group has turned himself in to authorities in Africa, the U.S. State Department said Monday.
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Barack Obama Appeals to Silicon Valley for Help With Online Anti-Extremist Campaign
President Barack Obama on Sunday called on Silicon Valley to help address the threat of terrorist groups using social media and electronic communications to plan and promote violence, setting up renewed debate over personal privacy online.
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UN Chief Urges Russia, US to Cooperate on Terrorism
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Russia and the United States on Sunday to cooperate in rooting out terrorism and said he would unveil a comprehensive plan to fight extremism and violence early next year.
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Barack Obama Visits Asian Refugee Center Amid Raging Debate in US
Pushing back against efforts to bar Syrian refugees from resettling in the US, President Barack Obama vowed Saturday that his country will be a welcoming place for millions fleeing violence around the world "as long as I'm president."
