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Egypt army says 19 Islamic militants killed in Sinai
May 31, 2020 (AFP)
Five soldiers were killed or wounded in the operations last week, according to the online video statement Saturday, which did not specify the number of military...
Coalition against IS to meet virtually amid virus
May 27, 2020 (AFP)
Top diplomats from the 82-nation coalition will hold talks on June 4 to "discuss ways to keep continuous pressure on ISIS's remnants in Iraq and Syria and stren...
FBI says Texas navy base shooting is 'terrorism-related'
May 21, 2020 (AFP)
The suspected shooter died, the FBI's Leah Graves said, without saying whether the person was killed or died of a self-inflicted wound. Graves said that agents ...
Sri Lanka president warns UN over war crimes claims
May 19, 2020 (AFP)
The country's president Gotabaya Rajapaksa -- the top defence official when the rebels were defeated in May 2009 under his brother, former president Mahinda Raj...
Bosnian protests at Mass for Croatia's pro-Nazi WWII regime
May 16, 2020 (AFP)
The annual service, usually held in Austria at the site of the Croatian regime's last stand, was moved to Sarajevo because of coronavirus restrictions in Austri...
Confessions of a Colombian extrajudicial killer commander
May 13, 2020 (AFP)
"I didn't kill them but I contributed to allowing it to happen," Rincon, 53, told AFP in an exclusive interview. Revelations about these illicit murders caused ...
New coronavirus not man-made or genetically modified: US intelligence
Apr 30, 2020 (AFP)
"The entire Intelligence Community has been consistently providing critical support to US policymakers and those responding to the COVID-19 virus, which origina...
German court tries IS jihadist over Yazidi genocide
Apr 24, 2020 (AFP)
Taha al-Jumailly, 27, also stands accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes and human trafficking in the case which is being heard before judges in Frankfu...
Luis Sepulveda: best-selling exiled Chilean writer
Apr 16, 2020 (AFP)
Best-known for his 1992 novel, "The Old Man Who Read Love Stories", Sepulveda was particularly successful in Europe, where he had been based since the 1980s. Hi...
US says probing if coronavirus came from Chinese lab
Apr 16, 2020 (AFP)
Chinese scientists have said the virus, which has killed more than 138,700 people worldwide, was likely transmitted to humans late last year at a Wuhan "wet mar...
Soldier, 6 'terrorists' killed in Burkina Faso clashes
Apr 12, 2020 (AFP)
The fighting broke out in the town of Djibo on Sunday morning. "A gendarmerie unit and a reconnaissance mission team were ambushed. Sadly a soldier was killed d...
US offers $10mn cash for information on Hezbollah boss
Apr 10, 2020 (AFP)
Kawtharani is a senior official of the Lebanese Shiite movement in Iraq, "and has taken over some of the political coordination of Iran-aligned paramilitary gro...
Watchdog blames Syria for chemical weapons attacks
Apr 08, 2020 (AFP)
The findings came in the first report from a new investigative team set up by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to identify the pe...
Sri Lanka pardons soldier who slaughtered Tamil civilians
Mar 26, 2020 (AFP)
Staff Sergeant Sunil Ratnayake was to be hanged for the December 2000 massacre in a case held up by previous Sri Lankan governments as an example of rare accoun...
Aboriginal scars from frontier wars
Mar 19, 2020 (SPX)
A long-running ARC-funded archaeology project has turned the lens on the recruitment to the Queensland Native Mounted Police and their part in the violent 'fron...
US names IS chief on terror blacklist
Mar 17, 2020 (AFP)
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that al-Mawli was named leader of the ultra-violent group after an October raid by US commandos killed its chief Abu Bakr al...
New Zealand security response to mosque attacks spurs debate
Mar 13, 2020 (AFP)
The mass shootings which killed 51 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch on March 15 were carried out by an avowed white supremacist who had slipped...
SOUTHCOM commander: DoD to 'right-size' staffing at Guantanamo Bay
Mar 12, 2020 (UPI)
Navy Adm. Craig S. Faller and Southcom Commander told reporters at a Pentagon press briefing that officials are considering "right-sizing" staffing at the priso...
Iraqi IS man charged with genocide in Yazidi 'slave' case
Feb 21, 2020 (AFP)
Taha A.-J. is the husband of Jennifer W., a woman who has been on trial in Munich since last year over accusations that the two mistreated a Yazidi mother and d...
Audit: U.S. failed to account for nearly $715M in arms to fight ISIS
Feb 18, 2020 (UPI)
According to the DoD Inspector General's report, Special Operations Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve did not maintain a list of all equipment purchas...
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