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SDF forces ‘cut key road’ linking ISIL-held areas
US-backed Syrian fighters have cut the last main road out of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, according to Kurdish military sources and a Britain-based monitor.
Seoul says North Korea carried out missile tests
North Korea has fired four ballistic missiles into the sea off Japan’s northwest coast, South Korean and Japanese officials said, days after the reclusive state promised retaliation over US-South Korea military drills it sees as a preparation for war.
UN estimates nearly 30,000 civilians have fled their homes in Mosul in past week of fighting
The fight to rout IS from western Mosul, the last urban IS bastion in Iraq, is causing higher numbers of displaced people than previously seen in the four-month-long offensive for Iraq’s second-largest city, according to a statement from the United Nations on Wednesday.
MS-13 gang members indicted in NY teen killings
Federal and New York authorities say members of a gang known as MS-13 have been indicted in the killings of three teenagers on Long Island last year.
ISIL expands in Afghan-Pakistan areas, widening attacks
An offshoot of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group based near the Afghan-Pakistan border is expanding to new areas, recruiting fighters and widening the reach of attacks in the region, members of the movement and Afghan officials said.
Brother of paedophile who hid girl behind fridge ‘warned police years ago’
The brother of a violent paedophile who was jailed for 27 years after almost five decades of sex attacks on children has claimed he told police about his offending “years ago”.
3 killed, 50 wounded in Kabul coordinated suicide attacks
Back to back explosions rocked capital Kabul earlier this afternoon after a group of militants launched a coordinated attack on Police District#6 and Police District#12, leaving at least 3 dead and around fifty others wounded.
ISIL video threatens China with ‘rivers of bloodshed’
ISIL fighters from China’s Uighur ethnic minority have vowed to return home and “shed blood like rivers” in what security experts said marked the first such threat against Chinese targets.
Taliban commander among 5 killed or wounded in Nangarhar drone strike
A commander of the Taliban group was among at least five militants killed or wounded in a US drone strike in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
Helmand: Taliban kill policemen and confiscate weapons
Afghan officials say at least 11 police officers have been shot and killed by a fellow policeman at a checkpoint in the southern Helmand province.
