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ISIS claims deadly attack on Afghanistan interior ministry headquarters in Kabul

Militants launched a gun and bomb attack on the interior ministry in Kabul on Wednesday, killing a policeman in the latest chilling demonstration of their ability to strike at the heart of the Afghan capital. Five people were injured in the attack, which took place during the holy month of Ramadan and was claimed by Islamic State. The Taliban are also stepping up their assaults on the capital, making the heavily fortified city the deadliest place in the country for civilians. Special forces rushed to the scene after the attackers detonated what police said was a car bomb at the first checkpoint leading to the ministry, then tried to battle their way inside. “The fighting is over, the attackers have all been killed by security forces between the first and second security perimeter,” said Kabul police chief Daud Amin. A security source told AFP a clearing operation was continuing. “The attackers used two vehicles to reach near interior ministry compound. There were eight attackers involved, one detonated his explosives, seven others were killed,” interior ministry spokesperson Najib Danish told reporters. He said the attackers used vehicles disguised as those used by foreign military forces, the New York Times reported. Danish …

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32 dead after Menka motel firefight in Anglophone Cameroon, government says

The death toll after a military and police operation in an English-speaking region of Cameroon shaken by an armed separatist campaign stands at 32, including five "hostages"

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Afghan special forces kill at least 9 civilians in Nangarhar night raid

Afghan special forces have killed at least nine civilians in an operation in the eastern province of Nangarhar late on Monday, May 28

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Israel strikes targets in Gaza after militants fire mortars at southern Israel

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a barrage of mortar shells at southern Israel, the army said, causing no injuries but raising tensions in the border area

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Militant attack on Indian army camp in Kashmir leaves two dead

Two people were killed in a shootout in the disputed territory of Indian Kashmir, officials said Monday, the first attack since the army suspended operations against militants for Ramadan.

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Russian soldiers killed by Syrian ‘militant fire’ in Deir Ezzor

Four Russian soldiers were killed in Syria's Deir Ezzor governorate when a group of militants attacked a Syrian military position, the Russian Ministry of Defence said.

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A war over water: Fall of Farah exposes a new proxy front in Afghanistan’s conflict

Iran is seen to recognize western Afghanistan as its ‘area of influence’ where it identifies development activities such as the building of dams as competition rather than cooperation

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US airstrike on al-Shabaab in Somalia kills 10 militants, Africom says

U.S. forces conducted an airstrike in Somalia, killing 10 militants associated with al-Shabaab, the Somali-led affiliate of al-Qaeda, U.S. Africa Command said

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Buk missile that hit flight MH17 over Ukraine came from Russian military brigade, investigators say

Investigators probing the 2014 downing of flight MH17 said for the first time that the missile which brought down the plane over eastern Ukraine came from a Russian military brigade

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Five killed on sixth day of India-Pakistan border clash

A mortar and gun battle between Indian and Pakistani forces along their Kashmir frontier killed five civilians, taking the death toll in the six-day confrontation to 16, officials said

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