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As US Navy orders more P-8A Poseidon surveillance planes, Orion squadron flies final mission

The US Navy is phasing out long-time patrol aircraft P-3C Orion in favor of its successor, the Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance plane

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Two German Eurofighter Typhoon jets collide during training, killing pilot

Two German military Eurofighter Typhoon swing-role jets crashed in the north of the country during a training exercise

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Sri Lanka ex-defense secretary faces charges over security ‘lapses’ before Easter attacks

Sri Lanka's former most senior defense official, Hemasiri Fernando, faces possible criminal charges over "major lapses" linked to the Easter Sunday bombings that killed 258 people

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Russia: Police injured and attacker killed in Gronzy stabbing claimed by ISIS

Two people were injured near Chechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s residence in Grozny, Russia in an stabbing claimed by Islamic State

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Eight orphan children of ISIS adherents to be returned to Australia from Syria

Eight orphans of Australian Islamic State fighters have been spirited out of a camp in Syria, Prime Minister Scott Morrison in an apparent U-turn

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Houthi attack on Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport kills 1, wounds 21

A Yemeni rebel attack on an airport in southern Saudi Arabia killed a Syrian national and wounded 21 other people, the coalition fighting the Houthis said

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Chad soldiers killed in apparent Islamic State attack near N’Gouboua

At least seven Chadian soldiers and a local guard were killed in an apparent Islamic State ambush in the N'Gouboua area near Lake Chad

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New Syrian military councils are the SDF’s latest push for decentralization

Military councils in Tal Abyad, Kobane, Tabqa, Raqqa, Qamishli and al-Hol are part of the SDF’s transition to a “new organizational structure” in northeast Syria

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Ethiopia army chief killed in failed coup attempt, Abiy’s office says

Ethiopia's army chief Seare Mekonnen was shot dead by his bodyguard just hours after an attempted coup in Amhara state left the regional president and another top adviser dead

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Nigeria: Chad soldier killed in MNJTF counter-ISWAP operation in Baga area

At least one Chadian was killed and 12 other soldiers injured in Nigeria during a MNJTF operation against Islamic State fighters in the Baga area of Borno state

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