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May- 2018 -22 MayEurope
Russian nuclear submarine Dolgoruky test-fires four Bulava ICBMs in White Sea
The Russian nuclear submarine Yuri Dolgoruky successfully test-fired four Bulava intercontinental ballistic missiles in the White Sea, the Northern Fleet said
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22 MayAsia Pacific
A shortcut to heaven: How women and children became suicide bombers in Indonesia
A desire to enter heaven together motivated three Indonesian women to join their husbands in forcing their children to carry out suicide attacks
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22 MayAsia Pacific
Afghan security forces killed when bomb-laden van explodes in Kandahar
At least 16 people were killed and 38 wounded when a minivan stuffed with explosives detonated as security forces were trying to defuse it in southern Afghanistan, officials said.
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22 MayMiddle East
Israel claims world’s first F-35 airstrikes
Israel has used its F-35 fighter jets to carry out airstrikes in the region, IAF commander Major General Amikam Norkin said, the first acknowledgement of the plane's operational use.
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21 MayTechnology
China reveals Lingyun-1 hypersonic missile at National Science and Technology expo
China’s National University of Defense Technology displayed the Lingyun-1 hypersonic missile in public for the first time, as the 18th National Science and Technology Week began in Beijing
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21 MayMiddle East
Syrian army says Damascus ‘completely secure’ after taking Yarmouk camp from ISIS
Syria’s army said it was in full control of the capital Damascus and its outskirts after ousting Islamic State, marking a major milestone in the seven-year war. “The Syrian army announces today that Damascus, its outskirts and surrounding towns are completely secure,” it said in a statement carried by state media network SANA on Monday, May 21. The development came after troops had captured a key southern portion of Damascus from IS, the statement said, including the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk and the adjacent district of Hajar al-Aswad. “The wheel of our progress on the battlefield will not stop until all Syrian land is purified,” it added. Russian-langauge Russkaya Vesna posted video of Syrian Arab Army troops raising the national flag in the Yarmouk camp, which had been under siege for years. Syria’s war erupted in 2011 with protests against President Bashar al-Assad, including in the capital. The following year, the government began losing control of parts of Damascus and placed a crippling siege around Yarmouk, which lies in the capital’s south. The army’s announcement came hours after a tenuous evacuation deal saw hundreds of ISIS fighters and their relatives quit Yarmouk, according to reports. Videos posted on social media on Sunday …
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21 MayMiddle East
US troops unlikely to withdraw from Syria after ISIS defeat in Deir Ezzor
US troops are unlikely to leave Syria after defeating ISIS in Deir Ezzor despite tough talk from President Trump and Turkey's calls for the SDF to leave Manbij, Wladimir Van Wilgenburg reports
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21 MayTechnology
India flight-tests BrahMos cruise missile twice in two days
India successfully conducted a flight test of its BrahMos supersonic cruise missile in a trial to validate life extension technologies, officials said.
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21 MayAfrica
Malian soldier injured, 12 civilians killed in Boulikessi market attack
At least 12 civilians were killed in northern Mali in an attack on a market that also involved the shooting of a Malian soldier, military sources said
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19 MayMiddle East
High-value target captured by SDF isn’t ISIS spokesperson Abu Hasan al-Muhajir
Reports that the Syrian Democratic Forces backed by the U.S.-led Coalition against Islamic State captured the group's spokesperson Abu Hasan al-Muhajir in a raid in Eastern Syria are untrue, a spokesperson for the Coalition said
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