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White House brushes off Republican outrage over Bin Laden son-in-law trial
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell adamant that al-Qaida suspect Suleiman Abu Ghaith be interrogated at GuántanamoThe White House clashed with Republicans on Friday over the decision to prosecute...
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Taliban suicide bomber attacks Afghan ministry of defence
At least nine killed and 14 injured in Kabul attack intended to mar US defence secretary Chuck Hagel's first visit to countryA Taliban suicide bomber has killed at least nine people in an attack on the...
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Nigerian Islamists 'kill foreign hostages'
Ansaru says it has killed seven construction workers, including a Briton, kidnapped last month in raid on company campA Nigerian Islamist group claimed it has killed seven kidnapped foreign...
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William Hague says British hostage 'likely to have been killed' in Nigeria
Foreign secretary describes killing of foreign hostages by Islamist terrorists as 'an act of cold-blooded murder'A British construction worker abducted by Islamist terrorists in northern Nigeria is...
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Ansaru, the Islamist group behind foreign hostage killings in Nigeria
Vanguard for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa appears determined to drag foreign governments into domestic conflictThe terror group Jama'atu Ansarul Muslimina Fi Biladis-Sudan, known as...
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Two US soldiers and two Afghan police officers die in Wardak station shooting
Afghan policeman opens fire with machine gun killing US special forces soldiers and Afghan officers in compound in Jalrez districtTwo US soldiers and two Afghan police officers have been killed in a...
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Kashmir militants in deadly attack on Indian security forces
Five paramilitary soldiers and two suspected separatists dead after gun battle at empty school compoundMilitants attacked a group of paramilitary soldiers on the outskirts of the capital of...
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Netherlands raises terror alert level
Dutch officials say chance of attack has risen as Islamist militants travel from Netherlands to SyriaThe Netherlands has raised its alert level for terrorist attacks to "substantial", citing an...
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Baghdad bombings kill at least 22
Co-ordinated attacks in Iraqi capital bear hallmarks of al-Qaida as fears grow that extremist group is regaining strengthAt least 22 people have been killed in central Baghdad as bombers launched a...
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Prisoner protest at Guantánamo Bay stains Obama's human rights record | Amy...
More than half of the remaining detainees have been cleared for release. No wonder they're on hunger strike for their freedomReports are emerging from the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay that a...
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UK terror suspects to walk free within a year
Six potentially dangerous suspects will be released from January when special surveillance orders expire, warns terror watchdogSix potentially dangerous terror suspects, including a would-be suicide...
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US drone strikes in Pakistan 'carried out without government's consent'
UN official says drone attacks violate Pakistan's sovereignty and Obama administration has repeatedly been told to stopUS drone attacks on Pakistan's tribal districts are carried out without the...
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It is time for the west to take sides in Syria, and lift the arms embargo |...
The west's policy in Syria – to let neither side win – has strengthened Assad and created jihadismThe Syrian revolution is entering its third year. An estimated 70,000 people have been killed, hundreds...
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Somalia car bomb leaves 10 dead
Blast meant for officials ended up killing members of public near presidential palace and national theatre, say policeA suicide car bomber killed at least 10 people near the presidential palace in the...
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Car bombs and blasts target Iraqi Shia districts in Baghdad
Death toll rises fast with dozens reportedly killed and up to 160 injured as Islamist militants wage sectarian warA series of co-ordinated car bombs and explosions have rocked Shia districts across...
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Iraq rocked by wave of explosions
Dozens killed and scores more injured as Sunni extremists target Shia civilians in series of blasts across BaghdadBaghdad was convulsed by a deadly wave of explosions as terrorists detonated up to nine...
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Scenes of destruction in Baghdad after a series of co-ordinated car bombs and roadside blasts
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French hostage in Mali killed, say militants
Website of al-Qaida branch Aqim says Philippe Verdon, a geologist captured in November 2011, has been put to deathIslamist kidnappers have killed a French hostage in Mali, according to a report on the...
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US and Afghanistan reach deal on pullout of American special forces
Agreement calls for US-led coalition with Afghan forces to leave eastern province after claims of human rights abusesThe US military and the Afghan government have reached a deal on the pullout of...
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Malian suicide bomber hits Timbuktu airport
One Malian soldier killed and six wounded in first attack since French forces helped rout Islamist groupsA suicide car-bomber has killed a Malian soldier and wounded six others at the airport in the...
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