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Soldiers killed in Taliban attack in Kabul
A Taliban suicide bombing has killed at least six soldiers, including three members of the NATO force ISAF, and wounded more than 25 others near the US embassy in Kabul, according to police sources in Afghanistan's capital. The car bomber attacked a military convoy just a couple of hundred yards from the embassy compound at about 8am (0330 GMT) on.. More -
US begins expanded campaign against ISIL
US jets have bombed ISIL fighters south of Baghdad who had attacked Iraqi soldiers, in the first expansion of the campaign against the armed group. The US Central Command early on Tuesday said the attack was launched after Iraqi forces called for assistance - the first time the US had used force with the sole intention of directly supporting Iraq troops.. More -
Hundreds feared dead as boat sinks off Libya
A boat filled with up to 250 migrants heading for Europe has sunk off the Libyan coast and many passengers have died, a spokesman for the Libyan navy has said. Only 26 people have been rescued after the boat sunk near Tajoura, east of the capital Tripoli, said navy spokesman Ayub Qassem. "There are so many dead bodies floating in the sea,".. More -
Yemen troops clash with Houthi rebels
Government forces have clashed with Houthi rebels in the capital and launched air strikes targeting the movement's fighters east of Sanaa, a deal to end a weeks-long standoff into jeopardy. Clashes broke out near a state TV building in the north of Sanaa, when troops stopped a rebel truck loaded with weapons, military officials told the Associated.. More -
US: Arab states to join air raids on IS group
Several Arab countries have offered to launch air attacks on the group calling itself the Islamic State, US officials said, suggesting a widening of Washington's campaign against the group. The officials declined to identify which countries made the offers, but said on Sunday they were under consideration as the US begins to identify roles in its coalition.. More -
CIA says IS numbers underestimated
Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria now have about 20,000 to 31,500 fighters on the ground, the US Central Intelligence Agency says, much higher than a previous estimate of 10,000. Among those in Syria are 15,000 foreign fighters including 2,000 Westerners, a US intelligence official told the AFP news agency on Thursday. The figures were revealed.. More -
Egypt wants wider 'anti-IS' campaign
Egypt's president Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has told the US that its coalition to defeat the Islamic State group should be expanded to counter "terrorist hotbed" across the Middle East and Africa. The office of the Egyptian president late on Saturday stated that he had told the US secretary of state, John Kerry, that any coalition must be abel.. More -
Israeli army opens probe into Gaza war
The Israeli military says it has opened criminal investigations into two high-profile cases involving Palestinian civilian casualties in this year's Gaza war. The two cases cited on Wednesday are the first to result in criminal investigations. Seven other cases were closed, and three more are awaiting a decision. By investigating the killing of Palestinian.. More -
Obama okays air strikes on IS in Syria
US President Barack Obama has authorized air strikes against Islamic State group targets inside Syria for the first time, vowing to destroy its fighters "wherever they exist". In an address to the nation on Wednesday, Obama also announced an expansion of strikes in Iraq, saying he would be dispatching nearly 500 more US troops to the country.. More -
Kerry to hold Saudi talks on Islamic State
US President Barack Obama is sending his secretary of state to Saudi Arabia to meet Arab foreign ministers as he prepares to deliver a speech outlining his strategy against the Islamic State group. John Kerry's meeting seeks to broaden a coalition across the Arab world against the armed Sunni group, AFP news agency reported on Tuesday. The news comes.. More -
Syria rebel leader killed in bomb attack
The leader of one of Syria's most powerful rebel groups has been killed along with dozens of other commanders in a bomb attack on a high-level meeting in Idlib province. Hassan Abboud, the head of the Ahrar al-Sham brigade, was among up to 45 people killed on Tuesday at the meeting in an underground bunker near an ammunition dump outside Ram Hamdan. The.. More -
WHO: Liberia to see huge Ebola surge
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that Liberia is set to see a huge spike in infections from the Ebola epidemic ravaging west Africa, with thousands of new cases imminent. The UN agency on Monday said the country, worst-hit in the outbreak with almost 1,100 deaths, faced "many thousands" of new infections in the next three weeks. &quo.. More -
Iraq's parliament approves new government
Iraq's parliament has officially named Haider al-Abbadi as the country's new prime minister and approved most of his proposed Cabinet, as the country battles to take back territory lost to the Islamic State group. Legislators on Monday approved all of the candidates proposed for Iraq's new government, with the exception of two posts, namely the defense.. More -
US expands air campaign against IS group
The US has launched five air attacks on Islamic State fighters threatening the Haditha dam, as Washington widened its air campaign against the group. The attacks on Sunday destroyed Islamic State vehicles, two of which were carrying anti-aircraft artillery, a fighting position and a command post, the US central command said. "At the request.. More -
Abbas threatens to end Hamas unity deal
Mahmoud Abbas has threatened to break off a unity agreement with Hamas if the movement does not allow the government to operate properly in the Gaza Strip. Speaking in Cairo ahead of an Arab League foreign ministers' meeting, the Palestinian president accused Hamas of running a shadow government and said he wanted a single authority and a single.. More
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