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Russia Steps Up Airstrikes On Ukraine, 2 Days after Moscow Terror Attack
Ukraine's capital Kyiv and the western region of Lviv were under Russian air attack early Sunday, officials said, and Polish forces were also placed on heightened readiness.
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At Least 50 Killed In Myanmar As Military Attacks Rebel Gathering: Report
Myanmar's ruling junta has confirmed that it carried out an air strike on a village in which dozens of people were reported killed, drawing condemnation from the United Nations and Western powers.
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Russia Accuses Ukraine Of 1st Airstrike On Its Soil As Fuel Depot Bombed
Ukrainian helicopters have carried out a strike on a fuel storage facility in Russia's western town of Belgorod, the local governor said on Friday.
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ISIS Video Shows How The Group Has Turned Car Bombs Into Its version Of Airstrikes
As Iraqi troops slowly push into Mosul backed by heavy airstrikes, artillery and Western advisers, the Islamic State is not only fighting back conventionally but also with slick propaganda footage showing its prowess on the battlefield.
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ISIS Convoy Fleeing Fallujah Destroyed: Iraqi Official
Iraq's Defense Ministry has released footage showing airstrikes on dozens of vehicles, which officials said was an ISIS convoy fleeing the western city of Fallujah following its recapture by the Iraqi military.
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ISIS Members Killed in Airstrike, Baghdadi Not Among Them: Hospital
An airstrike on a gathering of Islamic State members in a town in western Iraq today killed several leaders but the group's top man, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was not among them, hospital sources and residents said.
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Syria Army in 'Vast Offensive' Backed By Russian Strikes
Regime troops backed by Lebanon's Hezbollah and Russian air raids advanced Thursday in western Syria in a "vast offensive" against rebels, as NATO voiced alarm at Moscow's escalating military activity in the country.
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Syria Rebels Battle Regime in Aleppo's Fiercest Fighting
Two alliances of Syrian rebels battled to advance in government-held western Aleppo on Saturday, seizing an army barracks in one district but losing ground in others, in some of the fiercest fighting in the city since the conflict began.
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37 Dead in Bombing of Dairy in West Yemen, Says Provincial Governor
At least 37 people were killed when a dairy in western Yemen was bombed overnight, an official said today after a seventh night of Saudi-led air strikes against Shiite rebels.
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Islamic State Executioner 'Jihadi John' Injured in Air Strike: Reports
The British government on Saturday said it had received reports that "Jihadi John", the British-accented Islamic State militant apparently responsible for the beheading of western hostages, had been injured in a US air strike.
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Iraqi Officials Say Islamic State Leader Wounded in Air Strike
Two Iraqi officials and state television say an airstrike in western Iraq wounded the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Pentagon officials said they had no information on such a strike or al-Baghdadi being wounded.
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Diplomatic Push Grows Against Islamic State Group
Newly outraged by the beheading of yet another Western hostage, diplomats from around the world are in Paris pressing for a coherent global strategy to combat extremists from the Islamic State group - minus two of the main players and without any ground troops - in a conflict that threatens to spill beyond the Mideast.
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US Launches Airstrikes on Islamic State Group Around Iraq's Haditha Dam
The US military says it's launched airstrikes around Haditha Dam in western Iraq, targeting Islamic State insurgents for the first time in that area as the group tries to capture the vital dam.
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Second Syria Beheading Raises Stakes for United States
Islamic State extremists have released a video purportedly showing the beheading of a second American journalist, Steven Sotloff, and warned President Barack Obama that continuing airstrikes against the group in Iraq will be met with the killing of more Western captives.
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Reports: Iran enriching uranium at underground lab
Iran has begun uranium enrichment at a new underground site built to withstand possible airstrikes, a leading hard-line newspaper reported Sunday in another show of defiance against Western pressure to rein in Tehran's nuclear program.
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Russia Steps Up Airstrikes On Ukraine, 2 Days after Moscow Terror Attack
Ukraine's capital Kyiv and the western region of Lviv were under Russian air attack early Sunday, officials said, and Polish forces were also placed on heightened readiness.
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At Least 50 Killed In Myanmar As Military Attacks Rebel Gathering: Report
Myanmar's ruling junta has confirmed that it carried out an air strike on a village in which dozens of people were reported killed, drawing condemnation from the United Nations and Western powers.
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Russia Accuses Ukraine Of 1st Airstrike On Its Soil As Fuel Depot Bombed
Ukrainian helicopters have carried out a strike on a fuel storage facility in Russia's western town of Belgorod, the local governor said on Friday.
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ISIS Video Shows How The Group Has Turned Car Bombs Into Its version Of Airstrikes
As Iraqi troops slowly push into Mosul backed by heavy airstrikes, artillery and Western advisers, the Islamic State is not only fighting back conventionally but also with slick propaganda footage showing its prowess on the battlefield.
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ISIS Convoy Fleeing Fallujah Destroyed: Iraqi Official
Iraq's Defense Ministry has released footage showing airstrikes on dozens of vehicles, which officials said was an ISIS convoy fleeing the western city of Fallujah following its recapture by the Iraqi military.
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ISIS Members Killed in Airstrike, Baghdadi Not Among Them: Hospital
An airstrike on a gathering of Islamic State members in a town in western Iraq today killed several leaders but the group's top man, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was not among them, hospital sources and residents said.
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Syria Army in 'Vast Offensive' Backed By Russian Strikes
Regime troops backed by Lebanon's Hezbollah and Russian air raids advanced Thursday in western Syria in a "vast offensive" against rebels, as NATO voiced alarm at Moscow's escalating military activity in the country.
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Syria Rebels Battle Regime in Aleppo's Fiercest Fighting
Two alliances of Syrian rebels battled to advance in government-held western Aleppo on Saturday, seizing an army barracks in one district but losing ground in others, in some of the fiercest fighting in the city since the conflict began.
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37 Dead in Bombing of Dairy in West Yemen, Says Provincial Governor
At least 37 people were killed when a dairy in western Yemen was bombed overnight, an official said today after a seventh night of Saudi-led air strikes against Shiite rebels.
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Islamic State Executioner 'Jihadi John' Injured in Air Strike: Reports
The British government on Saturday said it had received reports that "Jihadi John", the British-accented Islamic State militant apparently responsible for the beheading of western hostages, had been injured in a US air strike.
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Iraqi Officials Say Islamic State Leader Wounded in Air Strike
Two Iraqi officials and state television say an airstrike in western Iraq wounded the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Pentagon officials said they had no information on such a strike or al-Baghdadi being wounded.
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Diplomatic Push Grows Against Islamic State Group
Newly outraged by the beheading of yet another Western hostage, diplomats from around the world are in Paris pressing for a coherent global strategy to combat extremists from the Islamic State group - minus two of the main players and without any ground troops - in a conflict that threatens to spill beyond the Mideast.
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US Launches Airstrikes on Islamic State Group Around Iraq's Haditha Dam
The US military says it's launched airstrikes around Haditha Dam in western Iraq, targeting Islamic State insurgents for the first time in that area as the group tries to capture the vital dam.
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Second Syria Beheading Raises Stakes for United States
Islamic State extremists have released a video purportedly showing the beheading of a second American journalist, Steven Sotloff, and warned President Barack Obama that continuing airstrikes against the group in Iraq will be met with the killing of more Western captives.
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Reports: Iran enriching uranium at underground lab
Iran has begun uranium enrichment at a new underground site built to withstand possible airstrikes, a leading hard-line newspaper reported Sunday in another show of defiance against Western pressure to rein in Tehran's nuclear program.
