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A Libyan militia leader whose detention sparked clashes that killed 55 people in the capital Tripoli this week has been released, a military official said Thursday. Gun battles had raged on the streets of Tripoli from Monday night…
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The Iran-backed Houthis have committed a total of 464 breaches of the UN-led truce in a span of five days, the Yemen News Agency (SABA) reported on Monday. The Yemeni national army foiled at least six attacks by the Houthi militia on key…
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The coalition said in a brief statement that the explosives-rigged drone, which hit a village in Saudi Arabia’s southern city of Jazan on Monday, was launched by the Houthis from Sanaa airport. “In response to the threat, a military…
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Demining teams in Yemen said the Houthi militia laid 15 mines in the Red Sea of which eight were detected off the coast of Hajjah province, Saba News reported. The teams further destroyed five of the detected mines on Wednesday, the…
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Turkey is shifting to a proxy force strategy and diplomacy with the US and Russia to counter the Kurdish People’s Defense Units in Syria instead of deploying its own troops, analysts have said. It comes after senior Turkish officials…
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A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest US tech companies including Facebook and Microsoft is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on…
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Yemen’s foreign minister condemned on Sunday the Houthi militia’s continued “intransigence and rejection” of a proposed peace initiative for Yemen. Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak warned that the continued escalation and military aggression by…
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Iran’s expeditionary Quds Force commander brought one main directive for Iraqi militia faction leaders long beholden to Tehran, when he gathered with them in Baghdad last month: Maintain calm, until after nuclear talks between Iran and the…
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Simmering tension in Iraq boiled over on Wednesday when Iran-backed militias launched a new barrage of rockets targeting an air base that hosts US and other international forces. At least 14 missiles hit the Ain Al-Asad air base in…
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The leader of an Iran-backed Iraqi militia has vowed to retaliate against America for the deaths of four of his men in a US airstrike along the Iraq-Syria border last month, saying it will be a military operation everyone will talk about.…
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