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Al Qaeda operational commander killed in US air strikeA US air strike in Afghanistan has killed a high-ranking Al Qaeda operational commander, the US military said on Friday. The US military named the target of the strike as Abu Khalil Al-Sudani, saying he was killed in a July 11 str More… |
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Israeli air strike kills 3 Hamas commanders in GazaIsrael has killed three senior Hamas commanders in the Gaza Strip in an air strike on Thursday and said it would continue to target the group's armed leadership after a ceasefire failed. Hamas, which dominates Gaza, named the More… |
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Hezbollah blames Israel for commander killingLebanon's Shi'ite militant Hezbollah group said on Wednesday one of its commanders was killed outside his Beirut home in an overnight attack it blamed on Israel. Israel denied any role in the killing of Hassan al-Laqqis, w More… |
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Iran vows revenge over top commander killingIran will soon exact revenge on Israel for the recent killing of a Revolutionary Guards commander in Syria, an aide to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted on Saturday as saying. Iran said that an Iranian milit More… |
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Nato nabs top Haqqani commander in AfghanistanNato-led forces said on Saturday that they had captured the senior commander for the Haqqani network in Afghanistan, Haji Mali Khan, during an operation in eastern Paktia province earlier in the week. Khan is 'the uncle of Siraj and Ba More… |
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Obama fires US Afghan commanderPresident Barack Obama fired his top Afghanistan commander on Wednesday over inflammatory comments that enraged the White House, and vowed not to let the military shake-up undermine the US war effort. In an extraordinary turn of events, Ob More… |
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US commander in Afghanistan gets more authorityUS General David Petraeus said he had expanded the authority of the top commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, to give him operational control over nearly all American forces in the country. Officials in Washington said the More… |
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Top US Mideast commander quitsThe top US commander for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars said he would quit after a magazine reported he was pushing President George W Bush to avoid war with Iran. Adm William 'Fox' Fallon, head of the US Central Command headquarters respon More… |
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Top US Mideast commander quitsThe top US commander for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars said he would quit after a magazine reported he was pushing President George W Bush to avoid war with Iran. Adm William 'Fox' Fallon, head of the US Central Command headquarters respon More… |
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Top Islamic Jihad leader killed in Gaza blastEight people were killed, including a commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, and some 40 were wounded when an explosion destroyed a house in the Gaza Strip late on Friday, a group spokesman and local medics said. The Israeli More… |
