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U.S. F-22 stealth fighters fly over S. Korea in show of force toward DPRK

Four U.S. F-22 stealth fighters flew over South Korea's airspace on Wednesday in an apparent show of force toward the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) recent nuclear test and rocket launch.

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Fifty nations agree to cooperate on concrete measures to counter terrorism

Government representatives and global counter terrorism officials from 50 countries agreed Monday to intensify the fight against terrorism by co-implementing a long list of more than 60 measures aiming at tracking foreign fighters.

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Pentagon to overhaul its flawed Syrian training program: report

​The Pentagon is considering an overhaul of its botched training program for Syrian rebels against the extremist group the Islamic State (IS), a New York Times report said on Monday.

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Rebels fire 300 rockets into Shiite towns in NW Syria

At least 300 improvised rockets and mortar shells slammed into predominantly-Shiite towns in northwestern Syria, killing seven civilians, a monitor group reported Tuesday.

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45 people killed in fighting in Yemen's Aden

​Deadly battles broke out on Sunday between the Shiite Houthi group and Gulf-backed fighters in Yemen's southern port city of Aden, in which 45 people were killed and about 170 others wounded, health officials said, two days after the exiled government announced "liberation" of the city.

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Turkey issues travel ban on 15,000 suspected foreign fighters

​Turkey has put travel ban on 15,000 suspected foreigner fighters, and deported more than 1,500 others who aim to join the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgic said Wednesday.

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Suspected IS recruiter expelled from Italy

​An Albanian national was repatriated to his home country from Italy's Milan on suspicion of recruiting foreign fighters for the Islamic State (IS), local reports said on Monday.

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Morocco dismantles new IS recruitment cell

​Morocco said Thursday that it has dismantled a new cell suspected of recruiting and sending Moroccan fighters to join the ranks of the Islamic State (IS).

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Chinese fire fighters to attend ASEAN disaster relief drill

Chinese fire fighters have arrived in Penang, Malaysia, for the fourth disaster relief drill of the ASEAN regional forum scheduled for late May, the Ministry of Public Security announced on Monday.

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Mystery fire engulfs Nigerian gov't secretariat

​A mystery fire on Thursday engulfed the Nigerian government secretariat, a massive building that houses most of the country's ministries in the capital Abuja, civil servants and local media said.

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Pakistan dispatches 8 fighters to escort Xi's plane on state visit

Pakistan dispatched eight JF-17 Thunder fighter jets to escort Chinese President Xi Jinping's plane Monday when it entered Pakistani air space for a state visit to the country.

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At least 60 die in fresh airstrikes on Yemen's capital

​At least 60 people were killed and 49 others wounded in Yemen's capital of Sanaa on Monday morning in one of the fiercest air raids by Saudi-led coalition forces that began more than three weeks ago.

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Kurdish militants attack IS in northern Syria

​Kurdish militants and rebel groups on Thursday captured 19 villages in the countryside of Syria's northern al-Raqqa province, the de facto capital of the Islamic State (IS) militants, a monitoring group reported.

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Over 500 Boko Haram combatants killed by Nigerien army

Over 500 Boko Haram fighters have been killed by the Nigerien Defense Forces supported by the Chadian troops between last Friday and Tuesday, eyewitnesses have said.

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Over 10 trapped in fire-ravaged China marketplace

More than ten people were believed to remain trapped in a wholesale market that had been ravaged by fire in south China's Guangdong Province on Thursday afternoon, witnesses said.

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IS young fighter executes two suspected spies: activists

​The Islamic State (IS) militants posted an online video footage on Wednesday, purporting to show an Asian kid shooting down two IS fighters over charges of being moles working for Russia's security apparatus, according to opposition activists.

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Cameroon army kills 116 Boko Haram fighters

​Cameroon's army killed 116 Boko Haram fighters on Wednesday when the insurgents attacked an army base in the far north region of Amchide, the country's defense ministry said Thursday.