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12 Dec
At least 23 people were killed in a suicide bombing at a Pakistani army base on Tuesday, an official said, in an attack claimed by militants affiliated with the Pakistani Taliban. The early-morning attack targeted a base in Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, near the Afghan border, according to a local official…
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Mali on Tuesday said it had lost around ten soldiers in an attack last week on a camp in the northern city of Gao that was claimed by Al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadists.
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The acting governor of an Afghan province was killed by a suicide bomber Tuesday, officials said, months after the region's police chief was killed in a similar attack claimed by the Islamic State group.
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