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Pak Talibs kill 10 foreign tourists in Diamer
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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Birthday Gam Shot

Minka Kelly[Filmography](age 33)



Reflective Design


Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 06/24/2013 1:33 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Saudi Police Kill Suspect Wanted for 2012 Attack
[An Nahar] Saudi police have killed a man who fled when they tried to arrest him for allegedly taking part in unrest that shook the kingdom's Shiite-populated Eastern Province last year, a report said Sunday.

Security forces tracked down Morsi Ali Ibrahim Al-Rabah, "who was involved in criminal acts that targeted Saudi nationals and citizens of his village", the official SPA news agency reported, quoting an interior ministry front man.

The front man said police shot up Al-Rabah, who figured on a list of 23 Shiites wanted in connection with unrest in the Shiite village of Al-Awamiya, when he fled as they tried to arrest him.

He was maimed and died in hospital, the front man said.

Al-Rabah had "taken part in opening fire at citizens and members of the security forces, killing and wounding some," said the front man, adding that authorities will continue to hunt down wanted suspects.

It urged the remaining 10 suspects on the same list, to "quickly hand themselves over to security services," adding that "this will be taken into account when looking into their cases."

Thirteen suspects have been killed in shootouts during raids or have been jugged
Please don't kill me!
and are on trial.
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Britain
Thamesmead 'stabbing': Sudden Jihad Syndrome?
[London24] The disabled man stabbed to death in Thamesmead on Saturday, June 15, 2013 was described as a 'great neighbour and friend' by one of the first people to find him.

The 56-year-old, who was confined to a wheelchair having had toes amputated due to gangrene, was found dead at 2pm, having had his throat cut.

Daha Mohammed, 51, also of Abbotts Close, was charged with the murder of Mr Greenaway and was due to appear at Bexley Magistrates' Court today.

A post-mortem examination at Greenwich Mortuary gave the cause of death as incised wounds to the throat.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


#2  daha Mohammed showed great courage in attacking an infidel in a wheel chair

special reward for him in heaven now
Posted by: lord garth || 06/24/2013 11:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Neh, just a regular Muslim respect for human life.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/24/2013 14:04 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Unidentified gunmen attack imam in Dagestan
Unidentified men in the Russian republic of Dagestan attacked an imam of a mosque and injured his wife and son. The incident occurred in the village of Kohabrosso in Untsukulsky district.

Dagestan's Interior Ministry said, "Three unidentified men broke into the mufti's house and tried to kill him."
Mufti? I thought he was an imam.
RIA Novosti said the assailants opened fire on the imam, who then returned fire.
Naturally, the mufti imam was packing heat.
The imam's son and wife were wounded and hospitalized.
Posted by: ryuge || 06/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You'll see more and more of this, apparently the muslims are revolting.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 06/24/2013 7:48 Comments || Top||

#2  :)
Indeed they are James.
Posted by: Shipman || 06/24/2013 9:37 Comments || Top||

#3  ...they stink on ice.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/24/2013 17:21 Comments || Top||

#4  the muslims are revolting.

It was a slow hanging curve ball, looked as big as a grapefruit.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/24/2013 17:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Wizard of Id cartoon, I believe
Posted by: Frank G || 06/24/2013 20:36 Comments || Top||

#6  French Revolution episode, History of the World Part One
Posted by: Pappy || 06/24/2013 20:52 Comments || Top||

#7  Wizard - 1971. I got you beat
Posted by: Frank G || 06/24/2013 21:26 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
6 militants killed in Dera Bugti
[Pak Daily Times] At least six bad boys, including a commander, were killed during an operation by security forces in Dera Bugti district of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
on Sunday.

A front man for the paramilitary forces said that unidentified gunnies attacked an FC checkpost in Matt area of Sui in Dera Bugti, and managed to flee. He said the FC chased the attackers and conducted an operation in Sui town, adding that six armed bad boys, including a farari (runaway) commander, were killed during the three-hour operation.
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Baloch Liberation Army


Soldier killed in IED blast
[Pak Daily Times] A soldier was killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast on Sunday in the North Waziristan Agency. According to a spokesman of the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), two soldiers were injured in the blast.
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


One security man killed in Bannu
[Pak Daily Times] At least one security man was killed and two others were injured in a militant attack in the Frontier Region of Bannu District on Sunday, official sources said. According to the officials, a security forces' vehicle was targeted with a remote-controlled bomb in Khawa Khawar area of Bannu, killing one security person and injuring two others. The casualties were shifted to a nearby hospital. Security forces later launched a search for the militants.
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Militants kill Levies man
[Pak Daily Times] Unidentified miscreants targeted a Levies vehicle with small arms, killing the driver and wounding two Levies personnel, in Washak, Balochistan on Sunday. Levies Force said that their team was on a routine patrol on Saturday night in Tehsil Basima in Washak District when some unidentified men suddenly opened indiscriminate firing on the vehicle, killing the driver on the spot and injuring two Levies personnel. The wounded personnel were shifted to a local hospital. Levies force cordoned off the area and started a hunt for the culprits.
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Pak Talibs kill 10 foreign tourists in Diamer
[Pak Daily Times] Gunmen dressed as police potted 10 foreign tourists and a Pak in an unprecedented attack in Gilgit-Baltistan claimed by the Taliban, who said they had set up a new faction to target foreigners in Dire Revenge™ for US drone strikes.

The attackers struck late on Saturday at the foot of one of the world's highest mountains, Nanga Parbat, killing climbers at a base camp in the far-flung north not previously associated with violence or militancy. The foreigners were from Ukraine, China, Slovakia, Lithuania, Nepal, while one of them was Chinese-American. The deaths call into question the future of foreign mountaineering and trekking expeditions, which provide the last vestige of international tourism in a country on the frontline of al Qaeda and Taliban violence.

Officials on Sunday said one Pak was also killed while one Chinese national survived the attack, which comes just weeks after a new government took office. The climbers were staying at a base camp for Nanga Parbat, which at 8,126 metres is the second highest mountain in Pakistain and the ninth highest in the world. The base camp is at Fairy Meadows in the Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan, which borders China and Kashmire.

"The incident took place around 10:00 pm (Saturday, 1700 GMT). They were mountaineers," Diamer police official Mohammed Naveed told AFP. "Gunmen came and opened fire on them. It is confirmed that they have been killed," he said. Six Ukrainians and three Chinese were among the dead, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar said. Ukraine's ambassador to Pakistain Vladimir Lakomov earlier told AFP that five Ukrainians were killed.

Nisar said the attackers were dressed as Gilgit Scouts, a paramilitary police unit. "They kidnapped two guides and through them reached the area. One guide was killed in the shootout. One is alive. He is now jugged
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
and being questioned," he said. The interior minister conceded there was no security escort for foreigners in that area of the mountains. The top bureaucrat and top police official in Gilgit-Baltistan were on Sunday suspended, state TV said. Local police told AFP that the bodies of the dead were en route to Islamabad by mid-afternoon Sunday after helicopters were dispatched to the area.
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  climbing is unislamic
Posted by: Frank G || 06/24/2013 7:52 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Six killed in renewed Iraq attacks
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Three boom-mobiles, including a suicide kaboom, and a mortar round killed at least six people on Sunday, most of them in northern Iraq where analysts fear tensions could trigger all-out conflict.

The deadliest attacks struck within territory which Iraqi Kurdistan wants to incorporate into its three-province autonomous region in spite of objections from Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
Diplomats cite the unresolved row as one of the biggest threats to the country's long-term stability.

In the town of Riyadh, just west of the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
three coppers were killed and 14 people were maimed when a suicide attacker set off a minibus rigged with explosives outside the police headquarters, police Brigadier General Sarhad Qader said.

Among the maimed in the 10:00 am (0700 GMT) attack were nine coppers, including local police chief Major Mundher Ahmed.

In central Storied Baghdad, a mortar round hit the Allawi neighborhood, killing two people and wounding five, officials said.

Another person was killed and 27 were maimed by two boom-mobiles targeting Shiite Turkmen areas of Tuz Khurmatu, another ethnically diverse town in the disputed territory which stretches from Iraq's eastern border with Iran to its western frontier with Syria.

The row is one of several between the central government and the autonomous Kurdish region, and diplomats and analysts often voice worry that tensions tied to the disputes could spill over into armed conflict.
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq


Southeast Asia
Bomb injures six in southern Thailand
Three volunteer rangers and three local residents, including two children, were slightly injured in an explosion in Yala's Muang district early Sunday morning.

While six rangers were traveling in a pickup truck on a local road to buy food in the town, a bomb was set off. The blast damaged the pick-up truck and wounded three rangers and three bystanders.

In Pattani, a placard warning of revenge against government officials was found on a road Sunday. A patrol team found a message on the Yala-Pattani road. It read, "As long as state authorities arrest our innocent people, it is time for revenge attacks."

The security team were patroling the area following Saturday's bombing in which an army colonel was killed and five other soldiers injured.

In Narathiwat province, a 50-man military and police force laid siege to a house in Rueso district and arrested a former Islamic teacher suspected of involvement in a violent attack.

Wae-aseng Nilubi, a former religious teacher at a private school in Raman district, was taken into custody. He is suspected of being a member of a separatist group under Abdul Roheng Da-eso, alias Pele. He is also thought to be an informant reporting the movements of government forces to the Runda Kumpalan Kecil (RKK) separatist movement and providing shelter for RKK members.
Posted by: ryuge || 06/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Two Philippine Soldiers Dead in Clash with Rebels
[An Nahar] Two Philippine soldiers were killed in a clash with communist rebels waging one of Asia's longest running insurgencies, the military said Sunday.

The troops were on a routine patrol when they encountered the New People's Army (NPA) fighters in the town of Esperanza on the southern island of Mindanao on Saturday, army front man Lieutenant Colonel Leo Bongosia said.

Two soldiers were killed, while the rebels managed to escape following the clash -- the latest outbreak of hostilities after peace talks broke down earlier this year.

Last week, NPA rebels attacked a tree plantation in the same town and killed five workers after the owner refused to give in to alleged extortion attempts.

Another NPA unit elsewhere in Mindanao kidnapped five unarmed soldiers in civilian clothes as they bought supplies in the market.

The 4,000-strong NPA is the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, which has been waging a 44-year Maoist insurgency that has claimed at least 30,000 lives.

President Benigno Aquino had hoped to reach a peace deal with the communists by the time his six-year term ends in 2016.

The talks however collapsed in April after the government rejected rebel demands to free dozens of tossed in the slammer
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
comrades.
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Bomb attacks in Syrian capital kill 8 people
[JOURNALSTAR] Suicide bombers targeted security compounds in Damascus and a boom-mobile went kaboom! in a pro-regime district there Sunday, killing at least eight people, the latest in a surge of civil war violence in the capital.

In northern Syria, a boom-mobile killed 12 soldiers in Aleppo, according to the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists in Syria for information. It had no other details, and the government did not comment.

In neighboring Leb, meanwhile, fierce festivities erupted between the Lebanese military and supporters of a hard-line Sunni Mohammedan holy man, in the latest spillover from Syria. Six Lebanese soldiers were killed, according to the army, which vowed to hit back with an "iron hand."

Heavy fighting
... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy...
with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades in Sidon caused panic in the southern coastal city, which until recently had been largely spared the violence hitting other areas. Many people who were spending the day on the beach hurried home, while others living on high floors came down or fled to safer areas. Gray smoke billowed over parts of the city and residents caught in the fire appealed for help.

The fighting broke out in the predominantly Sunni city after supporters of Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir, a virulent critic of the powerful Shiite hard boy Hezbollah group, opened fire on an army checkpoint.

The military issued a statement confirming that six soldiers died in the shooting, including three officers. It said the shooting was unprovoked.

Syria's state-run news agency
...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?...
SANA said three jacket wallahs blew themselves up while trying to break into the Rukneddine cop shoppe in northern Damascus, killing five people and wounding several others. SANA said three would-be suicide bombers also tried to break into the Criminal Security Branch in the southern Bab Mousalla area but were caught by security forces before they could detonate their explosives.

Activists confirmed the corpse count.

SANA said a boom-mobile went kaboom! in Mazzeh 86 district in the capital, killing three people, including a 3-year-old boy. Residents of the district are mostly Alawites, an offshoot Shiite sect that Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
's family belongs to. The opposition forces fighting against Assad's regime are mostly Sunni Mohammedans.

Nobody immediately grabbed credit for the Damascus kabooms, but they bore the hallmarks of al-Qaeda-linked groups that have joined forces with rebels fighting to oust Assad.

The attacks in Syria's two largest cities came as government forces pressed an offensive on the outskirts of the capital.

SANA carried a statement by the Interior Ministry saying that the Damascus attacks were a "new escalation by terrorist groups," a term used by the government to refer to the rebels.

More than 93,000 people have been killed in Syrian conflict that started in March 2011 as peaceful protest against Assad's rule. In the past year, the war has taken on sectarian overtones.

The conflict has increasingly spilled across Syria's borders.

The festivities in Sidon centered on the Bilal bin Rabbah Mosque, where al-Assir preaches. The holy man is believed to have hundreds of armed supporters in Sidon who fought back Sunday. Dozens of al-Assir's gunnies also partially shut down the main highway linking south Leb with Beirut.

By Sunday evening, the army had besieged the mosque, sealing off access to it from all directions, and was going after al-Assir and his supporters, who have been agitating for months.

The NNA report said Assir was believed to be hiding inside the mosque with several of his followers.

The holy man and his followers support Sunni rebels in the Syria conflict, and he has threatened to clear apartments in Sidon where Hezbollah supporters live.

Sunday's festivities in Sidon deepened tensions in Leb. on edge since the Syrian conflict began more than two years ago.

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman
...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too...
called an emergency meeting of the security cabinet for Monday. NNA also reported sporadic shooting in the volatile city of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
in the north, and the army announced additional force deployments in around Beirut.

The violence came a day after an 11-nation group that includes the U.S. met in the Qatari capital of Doha to coordinate military aid and other forms of assistance to the rebels.

Syria's al-Thawra newspaper, the mouthpiece of the government, assailed the Friends of Syria meeting.

"It's clear that the enemies of Syria are rushing to arm the gunnies to kill the chances for holding the Geneva conference," the newspaper said, referring to a U.S.-Russia initiative for bringing Assad's government and rebels together to negotiate an end to the crisis.

The Syrian paper pledged that the army would "continue the showdown to eliminate terrorism and restore security and stability."
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Sidon Clashes Spill Over as Roads Were Blocked in Tripoli
[An Nahar] Sunday's festivities in the southern city of Sidon spilled over other Lebanese regions, as roads were blocked in the North, the Bekaa and Beirut and army patrols came under fire in Ein el-Hellhole refugee camp.

This come after two army officers, a sergeant and three soldiers were martyred and several others were maimed earlier on Sunday in a clash with supporters of Salafist holy man Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir in the Sidon suburb of Abra, the Army Command said in a statement.

The fighting erupted when Asir supporters surrounded an army checkpoint in Abra, where a vehicle transporting other supporters of the holy man had been stopped, a security source told Agence La Belle France Presse.

LBCI television said the clash in Sidon allegedly erupted over the army's arrest of two individuals linked to the Bilal bin Rabah Mosque.

"The Lebanese army checkpoint in al-Taamir is being targeted by gunfire from the Ein el-Hellhole camp," Future television reported.

The state-run National News Agency National News Agency confirmed the news, saying that one of the Lebanese army's positions came under fire from the Taamir-Ein el-Hellhole area.

Also, an army base was hit with an RPG at the Abu Ali roundabout in the northern city of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, but no casualties were reported, LBCI television said.

"Several roads were blocked with burning tires in Tripoli in protest at the festivities in Sidon."

The same source noted: "Gunmen on cycle of violences are roaming Tripoli's streets and an exchange of gunfire erupted between the army and gunnies at the Abu Ali roundabout."

Moreover in the North, a number of young men blocked the el-Mina-Beirut highway in Tripoli facing the Quality Inn Hotel in solidarity with al-Asir.

But later on Sunday, roads leading to the Abdul Hamid Karami Square in Tripoli were reopened in both directions.

Meanwhile in Beirut, dozens of young men roamed the Tariq al-Jedideh area on cycle of violences while chanting slogans in support of Salafist holy man Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir.

"Young men blocked the al-Barbir road near al-Khasheqji mosque with trash bins," Radio Voice of Leb (100.5) noted.

LBCI said protesters blocked the road in Beirut's Verdun Street in protest at the Sidon festivities.

The tension of Sidon also spilled over to the Bekaa as the Taalabaya-Saadnayel road was blocked in both directions, al-Jadeed television said.

"Gunmen appeared in al-Masnaa area and in the central Bekaa town of al-Fayda as the Qob Elias-Aammiq road was blocked with burning tires in support of Asir."

"The Ras Baalbek road was blocked with burning tires in protest at the martyrdom of Captain George Abu Saab in Sidon's Sunday festivities," LBCI added.

According to LBCI, the Halba-Qobaiyat road in the northern city of Akkar was blocked at the intersection of the town of Menjez.
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Salafists


10 Troops Martyred in Clashes with al-Asir's Gunmen in Abra
[An Nahar] Ten army troops were martyred and 35 others were maimed Sunday in a clash with supporters of Islamist holy man Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir in the Sidon suburb of Abra, the state-run National News Agency reported.

The corpse count rose on Sunday evening after the Army Command had said earlier in a released statement that two army officers, a sergeant and three soldiers died in the festivities.

It identified them as First Lieutenant Samer Jeryes Tanios, Lieutenant George Elian Bou Saab, Sergeant Ali Adnan al-Masri, First Soldier Rami Ali al-Khabbaz and soldiers Bilal Ali Saleh and Elie Nicola Rahme.

"An gang loyal to Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir attacked, for no reason, a Lebanese army checkpoint in the village of Abra" on the outskirts of the southern port city of Sidon, it said in an earlier statement.

The fighting erupted when Asir supporters surrounded an army checkpoint in Abra, where a vehicle transporting other supporters of the holy man had been stopped, a security source told Agence La Belle France Presse.

"After the gunnies attacked (the army) with gunfire" the army fired back, the source added.

LBCI television said the clash in Sidon allegedly erupted over the army's arrest of two individuals linked to the Bilal bin Rabah Mosque.

According to state-run National News Agency, one of Asir's supporters was killed and 15 other partisans were maimed.

The army vowed it "will not tolerate" the latest developments, and that it "will continue to fulfil its mandate to suppress strife."

The military will "strike back with an iron fist anyone who... spills the blood of the army", the statement added.

Amjad al-Asir, the holy man's brother, was defiant when reached by telephone by AFP.

"The army is with Hizbullah -- we're being bombarded from all sides," he told AFP as kabooms were heard in the background.

"Sheikh Asir will stay on the battlefield along with those who support him. We will resist to the last drop of blood."

OTV said "Asir's gunnies widened their attacks and are firing towards Haret Saida from Abra."

"An RPG landed in the Alman area in Sidon district and a citizen identified as J. D. was maimed," al-Jadeed said.

"Sniper gunfire is targeting every military vehicle that passes in the vicinity of Abra and all roads linking the South to Beirut have been blocked by masked supporters of Ahmed al-Asir," military sources told MTV.

Al-Jadeed said the army came under sniper fire on Sidon's seaside road and "masked gunnies are trying to block roads near the Hariri mosque."

"The army reopened the Sidon-Beirut corniche road and is chasing the gunnies who blocked it," al-Mayadeen television said.

Agence La Belle France Presse reported that kabooms were heard two kilometers away.

An AFP correspondent saw civilians fleeing the fighting, both by car and on foot.

Businesses in Abra closed for the day in the face of the raging gunfire.

"The shells are raining down on us, and there is intense gunfire," a witness told AFP by telephone.
Posted by: Fred || 06/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Salafists


8 dead in sunni vs army clashes in Sidon
At least eight people were killed in fierce clashes in the Lebanese city of Sidon on Sunday between the army and followers of a Sunni Muslim cleric who have been caught up in sectarian fighting fueled by the war in neighboring Syria.

Guns and rocket fire rattled the port city 40 km (28 miles) south of Beirut that has been on edge since violence erupted there last week between Sunni and Shiite Muslim fighters, at odds over the Syrian conflict.
Posted by: lord garth || 06/24/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



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Mon 2013-06-24
  Pak Talibs kill 10 foreign tourists in Diamer
Sun 2013-06-23
  Dutch Say Time of 'Ever Closer' Union in Europe is Over
Sat 2013-06-22
  Britain OKs Treaty Clearing Way to Deport Abu Qatada to Jordan
Fri 2013-06-21
  Today's Pakaboom: 15 Dead in Peshawar Mosquaboom
Thu 2013-06-20
  Hizbullah Leader's Brother Killed In Syria Clashes
Wed 2013-06-19
  20 killed after militants storm UN compound in Somalia
Tue 2013-06-18
  Today's Pakaboom: 18 dead at Mardan funeral
Mon 2013-06-17
  LeJ claims twin attacks
Sun 2013-06-16
  Double blasts kill 25 in Pakistan
Sat 2013-06-15
  Mali's Tuareg rebels ready to sign peace deal
Fri 2013-06-14
  Mortars Fired at Damascus Airport, Delay 3 Flights
Thu 2013-06-13
  60 Boko Haram members killed in Maiduguri
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  Thousands Throng Istanbul Protest Square
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  Bombs and battles hit northern Iraq, more than 70 dead
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  Syria Islamists Execute Youth in Front of Family

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