Asia Pacific
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Nov- 2018 -6 November
Pentagon awards AeroVironment $3.2 million Puma AE drone contract for US Indo-Pacific ally
The US Department of Defense awarded AeroVironment a $3.2 million contract to supply and support its Puma AE small unmanned aircraft system for an Indo-Pacific ally
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6 November
Taliban confirms ‘high-ranking’ representatives will attend Afghanistan peace talks in Russia
The Taliban will send representatives to multilateral talks in Russia on war-torn Afghanistan this month, the militant group said
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5 November
Philippines: 100 foreign fighters joined ISIS in Mindanao since the Marawi battle
Some 100 foreign fighters from 16 countries entered Mindanao in the southern Philippines since the armed forces retook Marawi from Islamic State-affiliated groups in 2017
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5 November
Taliban seek to exchange body of police chief killer for Afghanistan Army helicopter crash victims
The Taliban is demanding the body of a man who shot dead Afghan police chief General Abdul Raziq in return for the remains of 13 people killed in an army helicopter crash
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3 November
Afghanistan: US service member killed in apparent insider attack in Kabul
Major Brent Taylor, a US service member serving in Afghanistan, was killed in an apparent insider attack in Kabul by a member of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces
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2 November
Sri Lanka court orders military chief arrested over civil war killings
A Sri Lankan court ordered the arrest the country's top military officer over the abduction and murder of 11 people during the Tamil civil war
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Oct- 2018 -31 October
Suicide bomber kills Afghanistan police and staff at Kabul’s Pul-e-Charkhi prison
A suicide bomber targeting a bus carrying employees of Afghanistan's biggest prison killed at least seven people
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31 October
Afghanistan army helicopter crashes in Farah, killing all 25 on board
An Afghan Army helicopter crashed in Farah province killing all 25 people on board, local officials said.
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29 October
Suicide bomber targets Afghanistan’s election commission headquarters in Kabul
A suicide bomber targeting the headquarters of Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission killed at least one person and wounded six
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27 October
Afghanistan: Police and civilians killed in Taliban suicide attack in Wardak
A suicide car bomb attack on a bus carrying police officers and workers in central Afghanistan killed at least five people, officials said
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