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October 9, 2016

Truck bomb attack on soldiers kills 18 in south-east Turkey

Ten Turkish soldiers and eight civilians were killed on Sunday when suspected Kurdish militants detonated a five-tonne truck bomb that ripped through a checkpoint near a military outpost in...

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October 9, 2016

Palestinian kills two people in Jerusalem, then shot dead

A Palestinian who was due to begin a prison term in Israel next week went on a shooting spree on Sunday, killing a pedestrian and a police officer in...

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October 9, 2016

Yemen ex-president urges attack on Saudi Arabia after air strike

Yemen’s powerful ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, a key ally of the country’s dominant Houthi movement, called for an escalation of attacks against their common enemy Saudi Arabia on Sunday....

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October 9, 2016

Turkish military says 38 Islamic State militants killed in northern Syria

Thirty-eight Islamic State militants were killed in northern Syria over the last 24 hours, the Turkish military said on Sunday, marking an escalation of conflict in the area where...

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October 9, 2016

Kuwait arrests suspected militants after truck attack on Americans

Kuwaiti security forces have detained a suspected militant who rammed a truck believed to be carrying explosives into a car carrying five Americans, state news agency KUNA reported on...

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October 9, 2016

German police hunt Syrian-born man feared to be planning bomb attack

German police are hunting for a Syrian-born man suspected of planning a bomb attack found explosives in an apartment they raided while looking for him on Saturday, officials said....

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October 9, 2016

Egypt expresses ‘annoyance’ with US embassy over threat warning

Egypt’s foreign ministry sharply criticised the US Embassy in Cairo for advising citizens to avoid large gatherings in the capital until Sunday, calling the move “unjustifiable”. The US Embassy’s...

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October 9, 2016

Militant group claims assassination of Egyptian policeman

A new Egyptian militant group, the Hasam Movement, on Saturday claimed responsibility for the killing of a policeman in the country’s north. Gunmen shot Gamal al-Deeb, a policeman working...

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October 9, 2016

US reviews support for Saudi-led coalition after Yemen attack

The US says it will begin an “immediate review” of its support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, after an attack on a funeral in the capital Sana’a killed...

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October 9, 2016

Syria no-fly zone would mean ‘killing a lot of Syrians’ – leaked Clinton speech

Amid the increasingly hawkish approach the US government has taken towards the Syrian government, it has been clear for its strategists that a no-fly zone over Syria would mean...

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