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Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kill 37 in Nigeria

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen killed 37 people in raids on five villages around Maiduguri, the capital of northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, a military source and a local village defense group said on Friday. The radicals, who arrived on motorcycles and in four-wheel drive vehicles, fired into houses and shot fleeing[…]

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13 killed in Afghan highway attack

Gunmen in eastern Afghanistan attacked passing vehicles on a darkened highway during a midnight assault Tuesday, killing at least 13 people, authorities said. The attack happened in Wardak province’s Sayad Abad district, where Taliban fighters hold much territory and launch frequent attacks on security forces. However, no group immediately claimed responsibility[…]

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Two Tunis gunmen trained in Libya: Official

The two radical gunmen who killed 21 people at a museum in Tunis trained in neighboring Libya before carrying out the deadly attack, a top Tunisian security official said. Wednesday’s attack at the National Bardo Museum killed 21 people – 17 of them cruise ship tourists – before the two[…]

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At least 8 dead in Tunisia museum attack

Gunmen opened fire Wednesday at a leading museum in Tunisia’s capital, leaving at least eight dead and six wounded, including foreign tourists, authorities said. It was the first attack on a tourist site in years in Tunisia, a shaky young democracy that has struggled to keep radical violence at bay.[…]

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Pakistan says arrests made in school attack

Pakistan’s interior minister says authorities have made arrests in the case of the Taliban school attack that killed 148 in the northwestern city of Peshawar. Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan says Sunday the authorities have picked up several people suspected of involvement in the attack, although he did not disclose their[…]

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