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12/2/2023 6:54:45 PM
The military leaders of Burkina Faso and Niger said Saturday they would quit the G5 anti-jihadist force in Africa's Sahel area, the latest blow to the fight against insurgents in one of the world's most troubled regions.
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7/24/2023 5:02:32 PM
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday underscored his administration’s resolve to defend the country’s territory through diplomacy in a key speech but did not mention China, with which it has had an escalating series of conflicts in the disputed South China Sea.
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5/23/2023 10:20:21 PM
Separatists in Cameroon's restive anglophone region, scene of six years of fighting between the state and insurgents, have kidnapped around 30 women who were protesting against violence, officials said on Tuesday.
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7/31/2022 4:44:58 PM
Iranian border guards clashed Sunday with the Afghan Taliban, Iranian media reported, the latest cross-border exchange since the former insurgents seized power in neighboring Afghanistan a year ago.
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3/30/2022 12:36:00 PM
A Saudi-led coalition battling rebels who hold Yemen's capital began a unilateral cease-fire Wednesday in the yearslong war, even as the insurgents said they rejected the proposal.
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3/23/2022 2:01:22 PM
Gunfire erupted near Mogadishu's airport Wednesday as security forces clashed with armed men attempting to storm a heavily fortified area of the Somali capital, witnesses said, with Al-Shabaab insurgents claiming responsibility.
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1/30/2022 3:37:36 PM
Yemen's Houthi insurgents have shut down six radio stations in the capital Sanaa, the journalists' union said, with reporters saying the move came after broadcasters refused to air rebel propaganda.
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1/17/2022 11:14:28 PM
The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Houthi insurgents said Monday it had launched airstrikes targeting the rebel-held capital Sanaa after a deadly attack against coalition ally Abu Dhabi.
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12/26/2021 11:46:27 AM
The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said Sunday it struck a Huthi rebel camp in the capital Sanaa, as it intensified an aerial bombing campaign against the Iran-backed insurgents.
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10/13/2021 5:00:23 PM
Qatar's foreign minister said isolating Afghanistan and its new Taliban rulers 'will never be an answer' and argued Wednesday that engaging with the former insurgents could empower the more moderate voices among them.
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10/5/2021 10:29:07 AM
Taliban forces unlawfully killed 13 ethnic Hazaras, most of them Afghan soldiers who had surrendered to the insurgents, a prominent rights group said Tuesday.
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9/16/2021 9:25:47 AM
'A colonel and 19 other loyalists were killed in the past 24 hours in fighting with the Houthi insurgents in Al-Bayda district,' a government military official said, adding that 30 rebels also died.
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9/9/2021 7:09:57 PM
The flight to Doha comes as the Taliban continue their transition from insurgents to governing power, less than a month after they marched into Kabul and ousted former president Ashraf Ghani
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8/31/2021 6:34:25 PM
The opposition blamed the government for the escalation, saying that troops were pressing an offensive to force insurgents to surrender
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8/29/2021 6:02:41 PM
The killing reignited concerns among activists that the insurgents would return to their oppressive rule in the country after their military blitz toppled the government
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8/17/2021 1:07:56 PM
The insurgents stormed across the country, capturing all major cities in a matter of days, as Afghan security forces trained and equipped by the US and its allies melted away
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8/16/2021 3:19:00 PM
The insurgents mixed threats and lures with propaganda and psychological warfare as they took city after city -- some with barely a shot fired -- eventually capturing the capital Kabul
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8/16/2021 9:27:49 AM
President Ashraf Ghani fled the country on Sunday night as the insurgents encircled the capital, capping a military victory that saw them capture all cities in just 10 days
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8/14/2021 9:02:41 PM
A fresh contingent of Marines arrived in Kabul on Saturday as part of a 3,000-troop force intended to secure an airlift of U.S. Embassy personnel and Afghan allies as Taliban insurgents approach the outskirts of the capital
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8/14/2021 7:56:39 PM
The insurgents have captured much of northern, western and southern Afghanistan in a breakneck offensive less than three weeks before the US is set to withdraw its last troops
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