BAGHDAD (AFP) – Some fled after the United States-led invasion, others during sectarian bloodshed and more following extremist attacks. Iraq’s last two violent decades have…
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Sri Lanka to conduct investigation into war crime allegations
COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lanka will conduct an investigation into allegations its troops committed war crimes during a conflict with Tamil separatists, it said on…
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Airports near Ethiopia's Tigray state attacked with rockets, government says
ADDIS ABABA (REUTERS) – Two airports in Ethiopia’s Amhara state which neighbours Tigray where federal troops are fighting local forces were targeted by rocket fire…
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Japan marks 75th anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bomb
TOKYO (AFP) – Japan on Thursday (Aug 6) marks 75 years since the world’s first atomic bomb attack, with the coronavirus pandemic forcing a scaling…
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Former Nazi camp guard, 93, faces German court decision
BERLIN (AFP) – The prosecution’s closing arguments will be heard on Monday (July 6) in the trial of a 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard…
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Venezuela government says it foils attempted mercenary 'incursion'
CARACAS (REUTERS) – Venezuela’s government said it foiled a marine incursion on Sunday (May 3) by “terrorist mercenaries” who attempted to enter the country on…
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Coronavirus pandemic poses big challenges for UN peacekeeping operations
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – With 110,000 peacekeepers deployed in more than a dozen countries around a world now ravaged by the coronavirus, the United Nations…
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Islamic State claims Mozambique attack close to gas projects
MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE (REUTERS) – Militant group Islamic State has claimed responsibility for an attack in northern Mozambique just south of the site of gas projects…
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Syria's brutal war enters 10th year, with Assad consolidating control
BEIRUT (AFP) – Syria’s brutal conflict enters its 10th year on Sunday (March 15) with President Bashar al-Assad’s regime consolidating its hold over a war-wracked…
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Trump aides call US strikes on Iraq and Syria 'successful', warn of potential further action
WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD (REUTERS, AP) – US officials said on Sunday (Dec 29) that air strikes in Iraq and Syria against an Iran-backed militia group were successful,…
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More than 235,000 flee intense bombing in north-west Syria
BEIRUT (AFP) – Civilians on Friday (Dec 27) packed a road leading out of north-west Syria, where two weeks of heightened regime and Russian bombardment…
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Syria regime advances in Idlib, nine civilians killed
MAARET AL-NUMAN, Syria (AFP) – Regime forces have seized dozens of towns and villages in north-west Syria from militants following days of violent clashes, fuelling…
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Tens of thousands of civilians flee renewed Syria violence
BEIRUT (AFP) – Tens of thousands of civilians are fleeing bombardment in Syria’s Idlib region, the UN said, as fighting flares in the militant bastion…
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Airstrike on market in Syrian rebel-held town kills 10
BEIRUT (AP) – Syrian opposition activists say an airstrike on a market in a rebel-held town in the country’s northwest has killed at least 10…
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