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Jan- 2020 -

11 January

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Burkina Faso Super Tucano conducts first joint air op with French Mirage 2000 jets

Burkina Faso conducted its first joint air operation with France, when a Super Tucano worked alongside Mirage 2000D fighter jets near Arbinda in December

10 January

Africa

Fergus Kelly

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At least 25 Niger soldiers, 63 ‘terrorists’ killed in attack on army base in Tillaberi region

Insurgents attacked a Niger military base in the Tillaberi region leading to clashes that killed at least 25 soldiers and 63 "terrorists"

4 January

Middle East

Jared Szuba

US designates major Iraqi PMU Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq a terror group

The US designated Iraqi Shiite PMU militia Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq as a terrorist organization, one day after killing a senior Iranian general in Baghdad

3 January

Africa

Staff Writer With AFP

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AFRICOM responds to al-Shabaab ambush on Somalia troops with airstrike

AFRICOM carried out an airstrike against suspected al-Shabaab militants who attacked Somali government troops west of Mogadishu

2 January

Middle East

Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei and Qasem Soleimani

Joanne Stocker

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Iran Quds Force commander Qassam Soleimani killed in US airstrike near Baghdad

Iran Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani and Kataib Hezbollah leader Abul Mahdi al-Muhandis were killed in a US airstrike at Baghdad airport in Iraq

Dec- 2019 -

30 December

Middle East

Hashd al Shaabi deputy commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis

Jared Szuba

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Iraqi PMU leader vows retaliation for US airstrikes on Kataib Hezbollah

Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a senior Iraqi militia official with ties to Iran, vowed retaliation for US airstrikes on Kataib Hezbollah fighters in Iraq and Syria

29 December

Middle East