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Israel forces attack Palestinians armed groups
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], Aug 18 (ANI): Israel on Saturday said that it opened fire at an armed group of Palestinians near the Gaza border after it intercepted the rockets from Gaza.
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UN to honour late Malawian soldier with highest peacekeeping award on Frid
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 21 (ANI): The United Nations on Monday announced that it will honour the "brave and selfless" action of a late UN peacekeeper from Mali, who sacrificed his life while saving his fellow comrade during an operation against a local armed group last year.
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USD 1.5bn announced for African Sahel by EU, France
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Nouakchott [Mauritania], Dec 6 (ANI): The European Union (EU) and France announced over USD 1.5 billion in aid for the countries falling in the African Sahel region on Thursday to combat armed groups.
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Militants in Afghanistan can disrupt upcoming Presidential polls: Russia
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], Sept 26 (Sputnik/ANI): The high activity of armed groups in Afghanistan can disrupt the upcoming Presidential and Parliamentary elections in the country, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said on Wednesday.
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Iraqi PM calls for disarmament of PKK
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], June 27 (ANI): Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has called for the disarmament of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorist group, including other armed groups.
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India dismisses UN report branding terrorists as "leaders"
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 20 (ANI): India has dismissed the United Nations report, which refers to UN-designated terrorist entities as "armed groups" and "leaders".
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Anti poverty measures is the reason given, but China is changing Uighur pr
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Beijing [China], Feb 20 (ANI): China is planning to lift over 4,00,000 people out of poverty within this year in its restive Xinjiang autonomous region in northwestern China, as the Chinese Government fears a rise in numbers of local armed groups.
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11 dead in militia-security clash at Tripoli airport
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Tripoli [Libya], Jan. 16 (ANI): An armed group has stormed Tripoli's Mitiga International Airport with heavy weapons killing at least 11 people and leaving many injured.
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Indian peacekeepers save local community in Congo
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Kinshasa [Congo], Nov. 30 (ANI): Indian peacekeepers saved lives of local Hutus in Democratic Republic of Congo on November 8, by transferring the civilians to a safer location out of armed group dominated area.
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80 civilians killed in shelling in Syria: U.N.
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Hama [Syria], September 28 (ANI): At least 80 civilians were killed and several injured when armed groups shelled those trying to flee violence in Hama, Syria, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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Syrian Army recaptures town on Lebanese-Syrian border from al-Nusra Terror
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Beirut [Lebanon], July 28 (ANI):The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah and the Syrian army jointly won the battle against al-Nusra Front and re-captured the mountainous area around the town of Fleita region of Jaroud Arsal near the Lebanese-Syrian border.
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Hezbollah, Syrian Army conduct operation to flush out terrorists from Leb
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Beirut [Lebanon], July 21 (ANI): The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah and the Syrian army launched a joint operation on Friday in which terrorists of the Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, the former Syrian branch of al-Qaeda known as al-Nusra Front, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also
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