2019 • Page 59 of 119 • The Defense Post

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3 July

Libya National Army airstrike on Tajoura migrant detention center kills and injures dozens

Dozens of people were killed and injured in an airstrike on a migrant detention center in the eastern suburbs of the Libyan capital Tripoli

2 July

Europe

Staff Writer With AFP

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Russia navy crew killed in deep sea submersible fire in far north

Russian Navy personnel died in a fire on a deep submersible that was conducting research in the far north near the Arctic, the defense ministry said

2 July

Europe

Fergus Kelly

Islamic State claims killing of Chechnya police officer in grenade and knife attack

ISIS claimed one of its Caucasus Province fighters killed a police officer in the Achkhoi-Martanovsky district Chechnya, days after an ISIS-claimed attack in Grozny

2 July

Asia Pacific

Staff Writer With AFP

Sri Lanka defense secretary and police chief arrested over Easter bombing ‘negligence’

Sri Lanka police arrested their top commander and a former defense chief over alleged failures to prevent the Easter bombings that killed 258 people

2 July

Africa

Nigerien officers received counter-IED training in Exercise Flintlock 17

Staff Writer With AFP

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Niger: 18 soldiers killed in attack on military outpost near Inates

Armed men launched a car bomb attack on a Nigerian army base in western Niger near the border with Mali, a military source said

2 July

Commentary

Former Taliban fighters at a reintegration ceremony in Afghanistan

Opinion Editor

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Khalilzad should persist with Taliban talks to end the endless Afghanistan war

Despite the second-guessing, nobody has come up with a better solution for Afghanistan than negotiations with the Taliban, retired US Ambassador Herman J. Cohen argues

2 July

Middle East