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Explainer: Who are Kashmir’s armed groups?
Islamabad/Srinagar - Kashmiris have been demanding a solution to the unresolved dispute over whether the territory should be independent, or a part of India or Pakistan since the subcontinent gained independence from the British in
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Qaeda-linked Syria group kills 21 regime forces: monitor
BEIRUT: A Syrian militant group linked to Al-Qaeda killed 21 regime and allied forces Sunday near Idlib province, in one of the deadliest breaches of a six-month-old truce deal, a monitor said. “At dawn,
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Israel hits Hamas sites after balloons with ‘explosive device’ launched from Gaza
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US-backed force expects ‘decisive battle’ against Daesh
DEIR EZZOR, Syria: Hareth Najem fled Daesh’s last enclave in eastern Syria wounded and alone. The Iraqi orphan’s family had died two years earlier in airstrikes across the border in Al-Qaim region. “I had
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Bernie Sanders kicks off 2020 presidential campaign
Bernie Sanders kicked off his presidential campaign on Saturday not far from the rent-controlled apartment where he grew up in Brooklyn, and forcefully made the case that he is nothing like fellow New Yorker
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US-backed force expects ‘decisive battle’ against ISIL on Sunday
A US-backed Syrian force closing in on ISIL's last territorial bastion near the Iraqi border expects a "decisive battle" on Sunday after advancing slowly, a spokesperson said. Capturing Baghouz, an eastern Syrian village on the
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Sri Lankans risk it all to seek asylum on tiny island near Africa
Reunion - Before he decided to undertake a perilous 22-day journey by sea to Reunion, 35-year-old Balapu Waduge Prasad Indika Dilan Mendis had never heard of the tiny French island off the eastern coast
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Pakistan continues partial opening of airspace amid India crisis
Pakistan has continued a limited opening of its airspace for commercial flights, after closing it earlier this week at the height of tensions with neighbouring India that saw both countries carry out air raids
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Turkey refuses accreditation renewal for senior German reporters
Turkey has refused to renew the accreditation of two long-serving German journalists working in the country, triggering protests from Berlin, which said the decision was "incomprehensible". Jorg Brase, the Istanbul bureau chief for ZDF
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Algeria on a knife-edge as Bouteflika fires campaign chief amid mass protests
DEIR EZZOR, Syria: Hareth Najem fled Daesh’s last enclave in eastern Syria wounded and alone. The Iraqi orphan’s family had died two years earlier in airstrikes across the border in Al-Qaim region. “I had


