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Doctor Deported To Lebanon Had Photos 'Sympathetic' To Hezbollah On Phone: US
US authorities on Monday said they deported a Rhode Island doctor to Lebanon last week after discovering "sympathetic photos and videos" of the former longtime leader of Hezbollah and militants in her cell phone's deleted items folder.
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Egypt Identifies Alexandria Church Bomber As Fugitive With Militant Ties
Egypt on Wednesday named the suicide bomber who attacked a cathedral in Alexandria as 31-year-old Mahmoud Hassan Mubarak Abdullah, describing him as a fugitive with links to militant cells that carried out previous strikes in the country.
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Elite Unit That Helped Kill Osama Bin Laden Gets Expanded Power To Hunt Terrorists
The Obama administration is giving the elite Joint Special Operations Command - the same organization that helped kill Osama bin Laden in a 2011 raid by Navy SEALs - expanded power to track, plan and potentially launch attacks on terrorist cells around the globe, a move driven by concerns of a dispersed terrorist threat as Islamic State militants a...
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Iran Says Dismantles Cell Linked To ISIS In Border Province
Iranian security forces killed three militants linked to ISIS in a city close to the Iraqi border on Tuesday, confiscating a weapons cache and belts armed with explosives, a senior official said.
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Paris Attacks Suspect Refused End To 24/7 Jail Cell Surveillance
A French judge on Friday rejected a demand that jail guards stop round-the-clock video surveillance of the only known survivor of a group of Islamist militants who killed 130 people in Paris last November.
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4 Arrested In Spain, Morocco For ISIS Armed Group Ties
Spanish and Moroccan police today arrested four suspected members of a jihadi cell that sought to recruit fighters for ISIS, including one described as a former Guantanamo detainee who once fought with militants in Afghanistan.
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Iran a 'Formidable' Danger to Europe: Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Iran posed a "formidable" threat to Europe, accusing its proxy Hezbollah of operating cells across the continent.
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Despite Obama's New Rules, No End in Sight for Drone War
When a barrage of drone-fired missiles hit al Qaeda cells in Yemen in mid-April and killed dozens of militants, the results were strikingly different from a mistaken U.S. attack on a Yemeni wedding convoy just four months earlier.
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Egypt Says 40 Militant Cells Captured Past Month
Egypt's top security official on Monday sought to build claims that the Muslim Brotherhood is backing terrorism, showing alleged confessions of militants saying they received funds from members of the group to attack police and the military.
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Saudi Arabia Uncovers Al Qaeda Cell Plotting Attacks
Saudi Arabia has detained 62 suspected al Qaeda militants with links to radicals in Syria and Yemen who were plotting attacks on government and foreign targets in the kingdom, its Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.
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Al Qaeda's suicide attack plan on foreign embassy thwarted, says Egypt
Egyptian have security forces thwarted a plan by an Al Qaeda-linked cell to carry out a suicide attack on a foreign embassy, capturing three militants, the interior minister said on Saturday.
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Pak blocks cell phones on day of protest against anti-Islam film
Pakistan has blocked cell phone service in major cities to prevent militants from using phones to detonate bombs during a national day of protest against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States.
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In bin Laden town, father mourns another militant
On January 14 at 8:12 pm, Khushal Khan's wife got a call on her cell phone. "Your son has been martyred," the voice said at the other end of the line. The man then hung up.
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Doctor Deported To Lebanon Had Photos 'Sympathetic' To Hezbollah On Phone: US
US authorities on Monday said they deported a Rhode Island doctor to Lebanon last week after discovering "sympathetic photos and videos" of the former longtime leader of Hezbollah and militants in her cell phone's deleted items folder.
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Egypt Identifies Alexandria Church Bomber As Fugitive With Militant Ties
Egypt on Wednesday named the suicide bomber who attacked a cathedral in Alexandria as 31-year-old Mahmoud Hassan Mubarak Abdullah, describing him as a fugitive with links to militant cells that carried out previous strikes in the country.
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Elite Unit That Helped Kill Osama Bin Laden Gets Expanded Power To Hunt Terrorists
The Obama administration is giving the elite Joint Special Operations Command - the same organization that helped kill Osama bin Laden in a 2011 raid by Navy SEALs - expanded power to track, plan and potentially launch attacks on terrorist cells around the globe, a move driven by concerns of a dispersed terrorist threat as Islamic State militants a...
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Iran Says Dismantles Cell Linked To ISIS In Border Province
Iranian security forces killed three militants linked to ISIS in a city close to the Iraqi border on Tuesday, confiscating a weapons cache and belts armed with explosives, a senior official said.
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Paris Attacks Suspect Refused End To 24/7 Jail Cell Surveillance
A French judge on Friday rejected a demand that jail guards stop round-the-clock video surveillance of the only known survivor of a group of Islamist militants who killed 130 people in Paris last November.
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4 Arrested In Spain, Morocco For ISIS Armed Group Ties
Spanish and Moroccan police today arrested four suspected members of a jihadi cell that sought to recruit fighters for ISIS, including one described as a former Guantanamo detainee who once fought with militants in Afghanistan.
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Iran a 'Formidable' Danger to Europe: Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Iran posed a "formidable" threat to Europe, accusing its proxy Hezbollah of operating cells across the continent.
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Despite Obama's New Rules, No End in Sight for Drone War
When a barrage of drone-fired missiles hit al Qaeda cells in Yemen in mid-April and killed dozens of militants, the results were strikingly different from a mistaken U.S. attack on a Yemeni wedding convoy just four months earlier.
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Egypt Says 40 Militant Cells Captured Past Month
Egypt's top security official on Monday sought to build claims that the Muslim Brotherhood is backing terrorism, showing alleged confessions of militants saying they received funds from members of the group to attack police and the military.
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Saudi Arabia Uncovers Al Qaeda Cell Plotting Attacks
Saudi Arabia has detained 62 suspected al Qaeda militants with links to radicals in Syria and Yemen who were plotting attacks on government and foreign targets in the kingdom, its Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.
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Al Qaeda's suicide attack plan on foreign embassy thwarted, says Egypt
Egyptian have security forces thwarted a plan by an Al Qaeda-linked cell to carry out a suicide attack on a foreign embassy, capturing three militants, the interior minister said on Saturday.
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Pak blocks cell phones on day of protest against anti-Islam film
Pakistan has blocked cell phone service in major cities to prevent militants from using phones to detonate bombs during a national day of protest against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States.
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In bin Laden town, father mourns another militant
On January 14 at 8:12 pm, Khushal Khan's wife got a call on her cell phone. "Your son has been martyred," the voice said at the other end of the line. The man then hung up.
