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Australia suspends airstrikes in Syria after US downed jet
Associated Press, Published on 20/06/2017
» BEIRUT -- Australia on Tuesday suspended its airstrikes against Islamic State group targets in Syria as a precaution, after a US fighter jet shot down a Syrian warplane earlier this week and Russia warned the US-led coalition from flying over Syrian army positions west of the Euphrates River.
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Iraqi, coalition aircraft step up airstrikes on IS-held town
Associated Press, Published on 15/08/2017
» BAGHDAD -- The commander of Iraq's air force says Iraqi and coalition planes have stepped up airstrikes on Islamic State targets in the town of Tal Afar, ahead of a planned offensive there.
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Iraqi PM celebrates victory in Mosul
Associated Press, Published on 10/07/2017
» MOSUL, IRAQ - Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi celebrated with Iraqi troops Sunday in Mosul after they drove Islamic State militants from some of their last strongholds in a nearly nine-month campaign, although heavy fighting by holdouts continued in parts of the Old City neighbourhood.
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Militants storm security compound in Yemen, kill 5
Associated Press, Published on 05/11/2017
» SANAA, Yemen: Militants set off a large car bomb outside a security headquarters in Yemen's southern port city of Aden early Sunday before storming the compound and placing snipers on the roof, officials said, adding that at least five Yemeni soldiers were killed.
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Trump says he'll fire missiles at Syrian 'Gas Killing Animal' Assad
Associated Press, Published on 11/04/2018
» BEIRUT: A senior Russian lawmaker on Wednesday morning warned the United States that Russia would view an airstrike on Syria as a war crime, but US President Donald Trump then tweeted that "missiles are coming" and called Syrian President Bashar Assad a "Gas Killing Animal".
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Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen rebel-run prison kill over 100
Associated Press, Published on 02/09/2019
» SANAA, Yemen: Yemen is reeling from what has been described as the deadliest attack so far this year after multiple airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition hit a detention centre run by the country's Houthi rebels, killing at least 100 people and wounding dozens.
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Somalia blast kills at least 16
Associated Press, Published on 22/12/2018
» NAIROBI, Kenya: An explosives-packed vehicle detonated at a military checkpoint near Somalia's presidential palace, killing at least 16 people and wounding more than 20 others, police said. The al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab extremist group, which often targets Mogadishu, claimed responsibility for the attack.
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Year after siege, Philippine city bears physical, emotional scars
Associated Press, Published on 23/05/2018
» MARAWI, Philippines: Thousands of displaced remain in emergency shelters and the threat of Islamic extremists and unexploded bombs lingers in the rubble of a southern Philippine city, where survivors on Wednesday remembered a disastrous five-month siege by Islamic State group-aligned fighters that began a year ago.
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2,000 Kachin trapped by Myanmar fighting lack food, medicine
Associated Press, Published on 19/04/2018
» Community leaders from the Christian ethnic Kachin community have called for urgent medical attention for about 2,000 civilians, including pregnant women and the elderly, trapped in the jungle where they fled to escape clashes between the Myanmar's army and the Kachin guerrillas in the country's north.
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French officer who swapped himself for hostage dies
Associated Press, Published on 24/03/2018
» TREBES, France: A French police officer who offered himself up to an extremist gunman in exchange for a hostage has died of his injuries, the interior minister said Saturday.
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