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Security forces retake areas in IS-held Ramadi, 54 killed in battles with IS in Iraq

​Iraqi security forces on Monday fought fierce clashes with Islamic State (IS) militants and retook control of two areas in and near the IS-held city of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, while a total of 54 people were killed in clashes with IS militants in Anbar and Iraq's northern central province of Salahudin, security sources said.

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Afghan forces kill 18 militants, Taliban overrun district

​Amid ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan, the government forces conducted air strikes against Taliban hideouts in Taliban former stronghold the southern Helmand province Sunday morning, killing 18 insurgents, a security official said.

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Syrian, Russian air strikes against terror groups could drag on: minister

​Syria's Minister of Information Omran al-Zoubi said Tuesday that the recently waged military offensive by the Syrian and Russian army against the jihadi groups has no specific timeframe or place, an indication that the war on the terror group could drag on indefinitely.

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Taliban key commander killed in Afghanistan, operation to recapture district in north continues

Amid the ongoing militancy and counter- militancy in war-torn Afghanistan, the government forces have killed a Taliban key commander in the western Herat province on Saturday while operations for regaining the control of Dasht-e- Archi district in the northern Kunduz province have been going on Since Friday. "Hajji Wazir, the commander of Taliban militants in west Afghanistan who was in a house to chalk out terrorist plan but the security forces acting upon intelligence report raided the house early Saturday and killed him on the spot," Herat provincial police chief Abdul Majid Rozi told Xinhua.

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47 killed in clashes with IS militants in central Iraq

​A total of 47 people were killed on Thursday in separate clashes between the Islamic State (IS) militants and Iraqi security forces in the provinces of Salahudin and Anbar, security sources said.

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Police seize 66,000 amphetamine pills in Laos

​A Vietnamese couple have been arrested in relation to a 66,000-pill amphetamine haul in southern Laos, local media reported Thursday.

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30 killed, 150 injured in rain-related accidents in NW Pakistan

​At least 30 people were killed and 150 others injured in separate rain-related accidents in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, local media reported.

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Recapture of Iraq's key town of Tikrit weakens IS, tough fight ahead

​The liberation of Salahudin's provincial capital city of Tikrit weakened the Islamic State (IS) militant group, but heavy and bloody battles are widely expected to free Iraq's largest province of Anbar and Mosul in the north.

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U.S. military chief in Baghdad as Iraqi forces free IS-held town

​The U.S. military top officer arrived in Baghdad Monday to discuss military cooperation as Iraqi forces freed the town of al-Alam in the Salahudin province from the Islamic State (IS) militant group.

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Clash, blast kill 17 militants in Afghanistan

​Conflict and bomb blast in the northern Badakhshan and eastern Kunar province have left 17 suspected Taliban militants dead, officers said Saturday.

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IS burns over 40 to death in Iraq's Anbar

The Islamic State (IS) militants burned up to 43 people alive, in Iraq's western province of Anbar, a provincial security source said Saturday.

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U.S. drone strike killes three al-Qaida operatives in Yemen

​Three members of the Yemen-based Al-Qaida branch were killed when a U.S. drone strike pounded their car in southeastern Shabwa province late on Friday, a tribal leader told Xinhua.

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At least 10 killed in coach collision in central Vietnam

​At least 10 people were killed and dozens of others injured in a coach collision in Vietnam's central Binh Thuan province early Monday.

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Shandong battles to reduce serious gender imbalance

Selective abortion remains a challenge in rural Shandong province, where some villages have purchased ultrasonic devices to detect the gender of fetuses, a member of the province's political advisory body said.

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Four al-Qaida operatives killed in US drone strike in Yemen

​Four al-Qaida militants branch were killed in a U.S. drone bombing in Yemen's southeastern province of al-Bayda on Monday, a military official told Xinhua.

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Be careful, taxi drivers told during tense strike

Despite some assaults by colleagues, cabbies are urged to continue carrying passengers.

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Taliban rocket attack kills 3 civilians, police gun down 2 would-be suicide bombers

​A rocket fired by Taliban militants slammed into a residential area in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, a former Taliban stronghold, on Tuesday killing three civilians and injuring two others, said Farid Ahmad Obaid, the police spokesman in the province.