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Islamic State claims killing of Chechnya police officer in grenade and knife attack

ISIS claimed one of its Caucasus Province fighters killed a police officer in the Achkhoi-Martanovsky district Chechnya, days after an ISIS-claimed attack in Grozny

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Sri Lanka defense secretary and police chief arrested over Easter bombing ‘negligence’

Sri Lanka police arrested their top commander and a former defense chief over alleged failures to prevent the Easter bombings that killed 258 people

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Niger: 18 soldiers killed in attack on military outpost near Inates

Armed men launched a car bomb attack on a Nigerian army base in western Niger near the border with Mali, a military source said

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Khalilzad should persist with Taliban talks to end the endless Afghanistan war

Despite the second-guessing, nobody has come up with a better solution for Afghanistan than negotiations with the Taliban, retired US Ambassador Herman J. Cohen argues

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SDF signs UN plan to end use of children in Syrian conflict

SDF commander General Mazloum Abdi signed a plan with the UN to end and prevent the recruitment and use of children in the war in Syria

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German army pilot killed in EC135 helicopter crash near Hamelin

An army helicopter crashed in northern Germany, killing the pilot, in the second fatal crash in a week for a military plagued with equipment problems

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Rheinmetall and BAE launch UK-based military vehicle joint venture

Rheinmetall and BAE Systems launched a joint venture for the design, manufacture and support of land vehicles based in the UK

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US targets Al-Qaeda leadership in northwestern Syria

US Central Command said it carried out airstrikes targeting al-Qaeda leadership at a training facility in northwest Syria

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Afghanistan: 6 killed, dozens injured in car bomb blast in central Kabul claimed by the Taliban

Dozens of people were wounded as a powerful car bomb rocked Kabul and gunmen battled special forces near government buildings, Afghan officials said

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Israel missile strikes near Syria capital and Homs kill 4 civilians

Four civilians, including a toddler, were killed and 21 injured in Israeli missile strikes near Damascus, Syria's state news agency SANA reported

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