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Nov- 2018 -

5 November

ISIS militants capture vehicles in the Philippines

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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

5 November

Kandahar police chief General Abdul Raziq

Staff Writer With AFP

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

3 November

Joanne Stocker

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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

2 November

Civilians displaced as a result of the Sri Lanka Army's military offensive in the Tamil civil war

Staff Writer With AFP

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

Oct- 2018 -

31 October

Afghanistan Afghan National Detention Facility in Kabul

Staff Writer With AFP

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

31 October

Joanne Stocker

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.

29 October

Staff Writer With AFP

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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

27 October

Staff Writer With AFP

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

25 October

Staff Writer With AFP

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Pakistan releases Taliban leader Baradar after US peace talks with militants in Qatar

Top Taliban commander Abdul Ghani Baradar held in Pakistan for eight years has been freed in an apparent move to aid talks between the United States and the militant group

25 October