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21 February

Peshmerga soldiers practice urban room clearing during training at Bneslawa, Iraq

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Iraqi army and Peshmerga survey disputed territories ahead of joint operations

The KRG Peshmerga and Iraqi Army began surveying areas of Iraq’s disputed territories in preparation for joint operations more than a year after relations broke down

21 February

Staff Writer With AFP

French ISIS fighter Fabien Clain targeted in overnight airstrike in Syria

A French ISIS fighter who became notorious after claiming responsibility for the November Paris 2015 attacks was killed in an airstrike

21 February

Staff Writer With AFP

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Raqqa civil defense uncovers ISIS mass grave of 3,500 people

Below a plot of farmland outside the Syrian city of Raqqa lies a large and deadly legacy of ISIS: a mass grave holding an estimated 3,500 people

21 February

Allison McManus

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Despite military campaign, security concerns persist in Egypt’s North Sinai

The lesson of shortcomings of successive Egyptian military campaigns seems to be that the real security crisis is the will to examine and learn from failures, Allison McManus argues

20 February

SDF fighters prepare to advance on the last pocket of ISIS territory in Syria near Baghuz

Staff Writer With AFP

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Women and children from last ISIS pocket in Syria evacuated

A convoy of trucks evacuated dozens of people including women and children from ISIS's last Syria territory, bringing the SDF closer to retaking the last of the "caliphate"

20 February

Staff Writer With AFP

Nigeria: Boko Haram kills at least 14 loggers near Maiduguri

At least 14 people were killed when Boko Haram insurgents attacked loggers in Koshebe forest near Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria

19 February

Indian Army soldiers on patrol in Kashmir

Staff Writer With AFP

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India says army killed Kashmir suicide bomb commander

India's army said it had killed the mastermind of a major suicide bomb attack in Kashmir which it blamed on Pakistan, as calls grew for reprisals

18 February

Jared Szuba

Alliance between SDF and Syrian regime is “very far away,” senior Kurdish official Salih Muslim says

Senior Kurdish politician Salih Muslim said a military partnership between the SDF and the Assad government is “very far away” and will depend on a negotiated political solution

18 February