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Six soldiers killed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Sinai [Egypt], Oct 13 (ANI): At least six soldiers were killed on Friday when gunmen attacked a checkpoint in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
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Palestine cabinet pledges to end split with Hamas
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Gaza [Palestine], Oct.3 (ANI): Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has pledged to end a decade-long split between the Islamist Hamas Movement of Gaza and his West Bank-based government during a cabinet meeting in Gaza, which was held for the first time since 2014.
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ISIS jihadists strike police convoy in Egypt's Sinai Province, 18 cops kil
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Cairo [Egypt], September 11 (ANI): Islamic State jihadists ambushed a police convoy, killing 18 officers and wounding seven others in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Monday.
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Three female suicide bombers kill 30 in Nigeria
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Abuja [Nigeria], August 16 (ANI):At least 30 people were killed and more than 80 others injured when three female suicide bombers detonated their explosive belts in the town of Mandarari, in Nigeria's Borno State, a stronghold of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, on Tuesday.
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UAE had competed with Qatar to host Taliban in 2013
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 1 (ANI):The United Arab Emirates has cut off its ties with Qatar, accusing it of supporting Islamist militants, citing the opening of a Taliban embassy in Doha in 2013 as the prime example, but it was the Emiratis who tried to get the Taliban to open an embassy in
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Australian authorities arrest 4 in alleged airplane terrorist plot
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Sydney [Australia], July 30 (ANI): Australian authorities have arrested four men as they foiled an Islamist-inspired terrorist plot to bring down an airplane.
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Saudi led bloc blacklist Qatar, Yemeni organisations, individuals
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Cairo [Egypt], July 25 (ANI): Saudi Arabia and its allies on Tuesday released a new list of 18 organisations and individuals with ties to Yemen, Qatar and Libya branding them as "terrorist" over suspected links to Islamist extremism in Syria.
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Philippine military mistakenly kills own soldiers
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Marawi [Philippines] June 1 (ANI): The Philippine military mistakenly killed its own 11 soldiers in the course of targeting Islamist militants, said a military official on Thursday.
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Top ISIS leaders killed in Afghanistan's Nangarhar
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 26 (ANI): At least seven Islamic State fighters of ISIL-Khorasan province, a branch of the militant Islamist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, were killed in the latest anti-IS operations in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
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B'desh removes 'un-Islamic' Lady Justice statue at SC premi
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], May 26 (ANI): The statue of Lady Justice was removed from the premises of the Supreme Court early Friday, on the demand of some Islamist organisations that called it 'un-Islamic'.
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Philippines President declares martial law in Mindanao amid clashes
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Manila [Philippines], May 24 (ANI): Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has declared martial law in entire southern region of Mindanao following deadly clashes erupting between government troops and Islamist militants on Tuesday, local media reports said.
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French President Macron stresses on combating Jihadi threat
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Paris [France], May 19 (ANI): Newly elected French President, Emmanuel Macron vowed to fight Islamist militants in Africa on his first visit to French troops fighting jihadis in Mali.
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