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3/11/2023 5:53:04 PM
Angola said on Saturday it will send a military unit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, after a ceasefire it brokered between rebel militiamen and government troops collapsed.
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2/1/2023 12:15:14 PM
A cluster of rockets targeted a Turkish military base in northern Iraq on Wednesday, officials from northern Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region said. An Iranian-backed militia promptly claimed responsibility for the attack.
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1/18/2023 10:50:48 PM
Mass graves containing the bodies of 49 civilians have been discovered in northeastern Congo after a series of weekend attacks blamed on a local militia, the United Nations said Wednesday.
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Africa
12/26/2022 1:48:38 PM
Boko Haram jihadists killed 17 herders and stole their cattle following clashes in the troubled northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, self-defence militia told AFP Monday.
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Africa
12/24/2022 9:30:07 PM
DR Congo's army called an M23 rebel withdrawal from a strategic town near the eastern city of Goma a "sham" on Saturday, saying the militia is reinforcing its positions elsewhere.
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Africa
12/22/2022 6:16:00 PM
Fresh clashes between the M23 group and a rival militia erupted on Thursday in eastern DR Congo, sources said, breaking days of uneasy calm in the volatile region.
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Africa
11/26/2022 8:49:06 PM
Militia fighters killed a lieutenant colonel and another soldier in the Democratic Republic of Congo's deeply troubled east, witnesses and local officials said Saturday.
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11/9/2022 10:13:53 AM
A strike on a pro-Iran militia convoy in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border killed at least 14 people overnight, a war monitor said Wednesday, without specifying who carried it out.
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11/8/2022 3:14:47 PM
The International Criminal Court's (ICC) chief prosecutor has met families of victims of alleged killings by a notorious militia at the site of mass graves in western Libya.
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War in Ukraine
11/5/2022 6:35:12 PM
Sweden's foreign minister on Saturday sought to distance Stockholm from the Kurdish YPG militia, days before the Scandinavian country's prime minister is to visit Ankara hoping to secure support for its NATO bid.
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Region
10/14/2022 7:26:00 PM
A member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards and a Basij militiaman were killed early Friday while chasing individuals spray-painting slogans during protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, state media reported.
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Africa
10/11/2022 9:05:16 PM
The United Nations said Tuesday that renewed clashes between armed tribal militias in South Sudan's Upper Nile State have displaced 8,000 civilians.
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Region
10/6/2022 10:18:42 PM
US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking blamed in a phone conference on Wednesday the Houthi militias for obstructing the extension of the UN truce in Yemen and said that the Houthis imposed unacceptable conditions, including paying the salaries of their fighters first.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
9/27/2022 10:12:09 PM
Extending the six-month-old truce is not improving conditions for the 24 million Yemenis facing famine in one of the gravest humanitarian crises in history, reports Ahmed Mustafa
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Opinion
9/8/2022 4:13:41 PM
A wave of alarm swept the Arab region late last month. Deadly violence broke out in the Green Zone in Baghdad and rival militias clashed in the Libyan capital at the same time.
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Africa
9/6/2022 10:31:51 PM
According to a joint report published by the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), such violations were committed during clashes between joint government forces and affiliated armed militias/groups on the one hand, and elements of Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army in Opposition (SPLM/A-IO) loyal to First Vice-President Riek Machar on the other.
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Africa
9/3/2022 2:05:50 PM
Militia members from Ethiopia's second largest ethnic group killed dozens of people and torched and looted homes in an attack on a town in the country's restless Oromia region, survivors told AFP.
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Region
9/1/2022 3:59:27 PM
Gunmen killed a judge on Yemen's Supreme Court in the capital Sanaa, officials said Thursday, and a senior official in the internationally recognized government accused militias allied to Houthi rebels in the slaying.
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Region
8/27/2022 12:37:50 PM
Clashes broke out early Saturday between rival militias in Libya's capital, killing at least one civilian and wounding five others, a health official said.
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8/25/2022 11:07:37 AM
US military airstrikes in eastern Syria were a message to Iran and Tehran-backed militias that targeted American troops this month and several other times over the past year, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
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