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At least 12 killed in Somalia hotel siege
Reuters, Published on 20/08/2022
» MOGADISHU: At least 12 people have been killed in Somalia's capital Mogadishu after al Shabaab militants attacked a hotel leading to a siege that authorities are still trying to end, an intelligence officer said on Saturday.
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Ex-CIA analyst recounts torture in secret Thai prison
Reuters, Published on 20/04/2022
» WASHINGTON: In the 2012 Hollywood hit “Zero Dark Thirty,” a red-haired Central Intelligence Agency analyst played by Jessica Chastain travels to a secret CIA prison and watches a colleague waterboard a screaming Al Qaeda suspect, then lock him in a box a little bigger than a mini-fridge, to make him talk.
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Bombings kill 9, wound dozens in Philippine south
Reuters, Published on 24/08/2020
» MANILA: Twin bombings in a town on a restive southern Philippines island killed nine people and wounded dozens on Monday, among them soldiers and civilians, the military said, with Islamist militants suspected of being behind the attack.
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Indonesian police arrest leader of network with ties to al-Qaeda
Reuters, Published on 02/07/2019
» JAKARTA: Indonesian police have arrested the leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah militant network linked to al-Qaeda, authorities said on Tuesday, on suspicion of recruiting members and sending them to Syria to train with extremist groups.
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Haspel may pledge not to restart detention programmes
Reuters, Published on 28/04/2018
» WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump's choice for CIA chief is privately assuring senators that she will not reinstitute a detention and interrogation programme and will make the pledge publicly at her May 9 confirmation hearing, two sources said on Friday.
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More bombs fall on Syria's Ghouta after heaviest toll in years
Reuters, Published on 20/02/2018
» BEIRUT: Pro-government forces bombarded Syria's eastern Ghouta on Tuesday, killing at least 49 people, after the heaviest one-day death toll there in three years on Monday, a war monitoring group said.
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Pakistan summons US ambassador after Trump's tweet
Reuters, Published on 02/01/2018
» ISLAMABAD: Pakistan summoned the US ambassador in protest against US President Donald Trump's angry tweet about Pakistan's "lies and deceit", while Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif dismissed the outburst as a political stunt.
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Saudis lead new anti-terrorist alliance
Reuters, Published on 27/11/2017
» RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Sunday an attack on an Egyptian mosque that killed more than 300 worshippers would galvanise an Islamic military coalition that aimed to counter "terrorism and extremism".
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Bangladesh arrests militant suspect in US blogger killing
Reuters, Published on 19/11/2017
» DHAKA: Bangladesh police said on Sunday they had arrested a suspected leader of an Islamist group wanted in connection with the death in 2015 a US blogger critical of religious extremism.
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Philippines files criminal case against ex-president Aquino
Reuters, Published on 08/11/2017
» MANILA: The Philippines' anti-graft body filed criminal charges against former President Benigno Aquino on Wednesday for mishandling a botched anti-militant raid that resulted in the death of 44 police commandos in 2015.
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