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Sponsor To Enemy: What's Behind Pakistan's Attack On Afghan Taliban?
Pakistan has been the Afghan Taliban's closest friend for decades. It was Islamabad that helped give birth to the Taliban in the early 1990s - as a way to give Pakistan "strategic depth" in its rivalry with India. What's gone wrong?
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ISIS Is Making A Comeback In Iraq A Year After Baghdad Declared Victory
The Islamic State is creeping back into parts of central Iraq just seven months after the government declared victory in the war against the group, embarking on a wave of kidnappings, assassinations and bombings that have raised fears a new cycle of insurgency is starting again.
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Taliban Release 235 Hostages After Afghanistan 'Massacre'
The Taliban released 235 hostages from a remote village in northern Afghanistan where it allegedly massacred around 50 civilians along with Islamic State insurgents but others were still feared held, officials said Tuesday.
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Syrian Forces Pursue Campaign Against ISIS After Retaking Palmyra
Syrian government forces backed by Russian air strikes battled ISIS insurgents around Palmyra on Monday, trying to extend their gains after taking back control of a city whose ancient temples were dynamited by the ultra-radical militants.
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French Advisers Helping Libyan Forces In Benghazi: Libyan Commander
French military advisers have been helping coordinate Libyan forces fighting Islamic State insurgents in the eastern city of Benghazi, a senior Libyan military commander said on Thursday.
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Four-Country Talks On Taliban To Begin In Pakistan
Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States are set to begin talks on Monday aimed at restarting the Afghan peace process and eventually ending 14 years of bloodshed fighting the Taliban insurgents.
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FBI Says Refugees Used Social Media To Plan Fight In Syria
An Iraqi man bragged about his experience fighting in Syria and the skills he developed as a teenage insurgent as he urged a fellow Iraqi refugee in the U.S. to join him in what both hoped would be martyrdom, according to documents filed in federal court.
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Afghanistan Militia Beheads 4 ISIS Fighters
Local village militia members loyal to a powerful Afghan lawmaker beheaded four Islamic State fighters and placed their severed heads on the side of a main road in eastern Afghanistan, local officials said on Sunday.
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Evacuation Of Damascus Militants Delayed After Rebel Leader Killed
A UN-brokered deal to evacuate more than 2,000 Islamic State fighters and other militants from rebel-held suburbs of Damascus on Saturday has been delayed after the killing of an insurgent leader, an organisation that monitors the Syrian war said.
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Syria's Bashar al-Assad Says His Enemies Increasing Support for Insurgents
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told a senior Iranian official today that his adversaries had increased weapon supplies and financial support to insurgents since the start of a major offensive aided by his allies to regain lost territory.
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Sponsor To Enemy: What's Behind Pakistan's Attack On Afghan Taliban?
Pakistan has been the Afghan Taliban's closest friend for decades. It was Islamabad that helped give birth to the Taliban in the early 1990s - as a way to give Pakistan "strategic depth" in its rivalry with India. What's gone wrong?
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ISIS Is Making A Comeback In Iraq A Year After Baghdad Declared Victory
The Islamic State is creeping back into parts of central Iraq just seven months after the government declared victory in the war against the group, embarking on a wave of kidnappings, assassinations and bombings that have raised fears a new cycle of insurgency is starting again.
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Taliban Release 235 Hostages After Afghanistan 'Massacre'
The Taliban released 235 hostages from a remote village in northern Afghanistan where it allegedly massacred around 50 civilians along with Islamic State insurgents but others were still feared held, officials said Tuesday.
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Syrian Forces Pursue Campaign Against ISIS After Retaking Palmyra
Syrian government forces backed by Russian air strikes battled ISIS insurgents around Palmyra on Monday, trying to extend their gains after taking back control of a city whose ancient temples were dynamited by the ultra-radical militants.
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French Advisers Helping Libyan Forces In Benghazi: Libyan Commander
French military advisers have been helping coordinate Libyan forces fighting Islamic State insurgents in the eastern city of Benghazi, a senior Libyan military commander said on Thursday.
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Four-Country Talks On Taliban To Begin In Pakistan
Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States are set to begin talks on Monday aimed at restarting the Afghan peace process and eventually ending 14 years of bloodshed fighting the Taliban insurgents.
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FBI Says Refugees Used Social Media To Plan Fight In Syria
An Iraqi man bragged about his experience fighting in Syria and the skills he developed as a teenage insurgent as he urged a fellow Iraqi refugee in the U.S. to join him in what both hoped would be martyrdom, according to documents filed in federal court.
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Afghanistan Militia Beheads 4 ISIS Fighters
Local village militia members loyal to a powerful Afghan lawmaker beheaded four Islamic State fighters and placed their severed heads on the side of a main road in eastern Afghanistan, local officials said on Sunday.
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Evacuation Of Damascus Militants Delayed After Rebel Leader Killed
A UN-brokered deal to evacuate more than 2,000 Islamic State fighters and other militants from rebel-held suburbs of Damascus on Saturday has been delayed after the killing of an insurgent leader, an organisation that monitors the Syrian war said.
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Syria's Bashar al-Assad Says His Enemies Increasing Support for Insurgents
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told a senior Iranian official today that his adversaries had increased weapon supplies and financial support to insurgents since the start of a major offensive aided by his allies to regain lost territory.
