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BRUSSELS, Feb 16, (Agencies): Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told European Union lawmakers on Tuesday militant Islam was also a European problem as he …
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162 in Boko Haram slain
YAOUNDE, Cameroon, Feb 16, (AP): Cameroon’s special forces have killed 162 Boko Haram militants in Nigeria’s northeastern town of Goshi, destroying bomb factories and weapons …
Read More »Russia hits Turkey on shelling of Kurds – Ankara warns YPG over Azaz
MOSCOW, Feb 15, (Agencies): Russia said on Monday that Turkey’s shelling of Kurdish and Syrian regime positions in the north of the country was a …
Read More »Jakarta hunts down Islamic State – Homegrown jihadis regroup
JAKARTA, Feb 15, (RTRS): As Indonesian counter-terrorism forces hunt down supporters of Islamic State following last month’s gun and suicide bomb attack in Jakarta, a …
Read More »IS says behind Dagestan blast
JEMIKENT, Russia, Feb 15, (RTRS): Islamic State said its suicide bomber had blown up a car in Russia’s volatile Dagestan that killed two policemen on …
Read More »Tests confirm IS used mustard gas in Iraq last year: diplomat
AMSTERDAM, Feb 15, (Agencies): Islamic State militants attacked Kurdish forces in Iraq with mustard gas last year, in the first known use of chemical weapons …
Read More »Poland not ‘likely’ to send troops to fight IS
WARSAW, Feb 14, (RTRS): Poland is unlikely to send troops to fight against Islamic State, Polish state-run news agency PAP quoted President Andrzej Duda as …
Read More »Bahrain on path to recovery: police chief – ‘Returning to stability 5 years after revolt’
MANAMA, Feb 14, (RTRS): Bahrain’s police chief said the Gulf state was slowly returning to stability five years after a 2011 uprising was put down …
Read More »2015 civilian injuries in Afghan war with Taleban worst since 2009
KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb 14, (Agencies): Civilian injuries in Afghanistan’s long war with the Taleban rose last year, with women and children again bearing the brunt …
Read More »Habtoor signs Christie’s as sales agent for Habtoor City
DUBAI, UAE, Feb 14: The Al Habtoor Group has signed a deal with Christie’s International Real Estate UAE to be the sole sales agent for …
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