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Iraq crisis: Islamist militants close in on Baghdad after capturing two towns north of capital
Full Article The Independent
13 Jun 2014

Islamist militants are closing in on Baghdad after capturing two towns north of Iraq's capital. Officials said Iraqi soldiers abandoned their posts with no resistance when fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) pushed into Diyala province. Militants driving machine gun-mounted pickups entered the towns of Jalula and Sadiyah...

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In this still image posted on a militant Twitter account on Wednesday, June 11, 2014, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, militants parade down a main road in Mosul, Iraq.
photo: AP / militant source via Twitter

updated 13 Jun 2014; published 13 Jun 2014
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Iraq Conflict: All Options Open To Fight Insurgents - Obama
updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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Iraq crisis Militants order attack on Baghdad
updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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Journalists: U.S. Failures in Iraq Helped Fuel Current Sectarian Crisis
updated 11 Jun 2014; published 11 Jun 2014
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Iraq crisis Militants 'seize Tikrit' after taking Mosul | BREAKING NEWS - 11 JUNE 2014
updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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Iraq Crisis - Sunni v Shia v Kurd, Militants take Mosul & Tikrit (BBC)
updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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Iraq conflict All options open to fight insurgents Obama
West, African countries agree to eliminate Boko Haram
Full Article The Siasat Daily
13 Jun 2014

London, June 13: Western powers and African countries Thursday agreed on a series of multinational missions to eliminate militant group Boko Haram and free the abducted Nigerian school girls, media reported Friday The agreements were reached at a meeting on Nigeria's security situation, hosted in London Thursday, by British Foreign Secretary...

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Some of the escaped Kidnapped girls of the government secondary school Chibok, attend a meeting with Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima, in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Monday, June 2, 2014.
photo: AP / Jossy Ola

updated 07 Jun 2013; published 07 Jun 2013
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Nigeria: Military looks to eliminate terrorism within the country as they..... VOA60 Africa
updated 08 Dec 2012; published 08 Dec 2012
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FOX NEWS: Who are Boko Haram
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls Boko Haram releases new video
updated 09 Jan 2013; published 09 Jan 2013
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THE LATEST NEWS : Is al Qaeda helping Boko Haram?
updated 15 May 2014; published 15 May 2014
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Assessing the threat of Boko Haram in Nigeria
updated 30 Apr 2013; published 30 Apr 2013
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NIGERIA BOKO HARAM RANSOM
Bergdahl back in the US
Full Article The Associated Press
13 Jun 2014

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon says Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who's been recovering in Germany after five years as a Taliban captive, is back in the United States. A Pentagon spokesman, Rear Adm. John Kirby, says Bergdahl arrived early Friday at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio on a flight from Ramstein Air Base. The Idaho native is expected to...

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In this file image taken from video obtained from Voice Of Jihad Website, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, right, stands with a Taliban fighter in eastern Afghanistan.
photo: AP / Voice Of Jihad Website via AP video

updated 04 Jun 2014; published 04 Jun 2014
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Bowe Bergdahl's release Taliban Video. Afghanistan
updated 04 Jun 2014; published 04 Jun 2014
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VIDEO: Bergdahl's release seen in Taliban video
updated 04 Jun 2014; published 04 Jun 2014
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"Do not come back to Afghanistan" Taliban Releases Video of Bergdahl Handover
updated 06 Jun 2014; published 06 Jun 2014
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Officials Don't pre judge Bergdahl Missoula Politics
updated 13 Jun 2014; published 13 Jun 2014
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Bowe Bergdahl returning to U S for more treatment after release
updated 04 Jun 2014; published 04 Jun 2014
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Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl: Unraveling the Mystery
Resurgent violence underscores morphing of al Qaeda threat
Full Article Daily Press
13 Jun 2014

By Ned Parker and Maria Golovnina WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - - In Iraq, an al Qaeda splinter group is threatening Baghdad after seizing control of two cities. In Pakistan, the Taliban attacked a major airport twice in one week. And in Nigeria, the Islamist militant group Boko Haram was blamed for another mass kidnapping. A cluster of militant...

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Iraqi refugees from Mosul arrive at Khazir refugee camp outside Irbil, 217 miles (350 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, June 12, 2014.
photo: AP

updated 06 Feb 2014; published 06 Feb 2014
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Al Qaeda resurgence in Iraq a growing threat to US interests
updated 12 Feb 2014; published 12 Feb 2014
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DNI: Al Qaeda is not on run, but morphing
updated 07 Jan 2014; published 07 Jan 2014
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al Qaeda re-emerges in fight over Iraq
updated 26 Dec 2013; published 26 Dec 2013
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Al Qaeda hints at new threats
updated 29 Dec 2013; published 29 Dec 2013
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Still out there and growing -- Al Qaeda on the rebound, experts say
updated 13 Feb 2014; published 13 Feb 2014
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Gerald Celente: War In Iraq To Get Much Worse, Al Qaeda Takes Falluja & 2014 Predictions
UN inquiry team on Sri Lanka war crime named
Full Article Al Jazeera
12 Jun 2014

- The UN high commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay, has appointed Sandra Beidas, a high ranking official with the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR), to coordinate investigations into widespread allegations of atrocities and mass killings of civilians in the final stages of Sri Lanka's decades-long civil war. Rupert...

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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay delivers her last opening statement to the Human Rights Council, 10 June, 2014.
photo: UN / Jean-Marc Ferré

updated 09 Feb 2014; published 09 Feb 2014
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Sri Lankan Government Covered Up Right Violations
updated 03 Mar 2009; published 03 Mar 2009
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Sri Lankan Cricket Team Attacked In Pakistan, 6 Players Injurd
updated 12 Jul 2010; published 12 Jul 2010
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Louise Arbour - President and CEO of Crisis Group - on Sri Lankan War Crimes
updated 12 Apr 2014; published 12 Apr 2014
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Tug Of War Sri Lanka Pugoda Dumbell Fitness Sports Club
updated 08 Jun 2009; published 08 Jun 2009
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sri lanka war news update - sri lankan breaking news
updated 24 Mar 2014; published 24 Mar 2014
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Hitler vs Sri Lanka Cricket (Funny)
Iraq Kurds seize Kirkuk; Sunni militants surge toward Baghdad
Full Article Daily Press
12 Jun 2014

Iraqi Kurds seized control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk on Thursday, while surging Sunni Islamist rebels advanced towards Baghdad, as the central government's army abandoned its posts in a rapid collapse that has lost it control of the north. Peshmerga fighters, the security forces of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish north, swept into Kirkuk after...

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Iraq Kurds seize Kirkuk; Sunni militants surge toward Baghdad
photo: Public Domain / Petty Officer 2nd Class Kim Smith, U.S. Navy

updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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Iraqi Kurds Fully Control Kirkuk' As Army Flees
updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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Iraq Kurds Seize Kirkuk; Sunni Militants Surge Toward Baghdad
updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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Iraq Kurds take Kirkuk as Sunni militants surge toward Baghdad
updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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Iraq Kurds Seize Kirkuk; Sunni Militants Surge Toward Baghdad
updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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Iraq Crisis - Sunni v Shia v Kurd, Militants take Mosul & Tikrit (BBC)
updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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Iraq: Militants move swiftly towards Baghdad
Pakistani court conditionally lifts Musharraf's travel ban
Full Article Xinhua
12 Jun 2014

ISLAMABAD, June 12 (Xinhua) -- A court in Pakistan on Thursday lifted a government's travel ban on former military President Pervez, however, operation of the order will remain suspended for 15 days if the government files an appeal against the verdict. Legal experts say the order could pave the way for Musharraf's going abroad but it now depend on...

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File - Supporters of Pakistan's former president and military ruler Pervez Musharraf holds banners and chant slogans in his support, in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014.
photo: AP / Fareed Khan

updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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ECL Case Musharraf can travel abroad, court verdict
updated 01 Apr 2014; published 01 Apr 2014
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Allowing Musharraf to travel abroad is government's decision, says court
updated 31 Mar 2014; published 31 Mar 2014
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Allowing Musharraf to travel abroad is government's decision (31 MARCH 2014 )
updated 31 Jan 2014; published 31 Jan 2014
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Musharraf Banned From Leaving Pakistan
updated 31 Mar 2014; published 31 Mar 2014
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GEO NEWS HEADLINES ( 31 MARCH 2014 ) Pakistan vs West Indies 1st Time on T20 Match
updated 01 Apr 2014; published 01 Apr 2014
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Dunya News - Special court leaves Musharraf's exit issue to govt
Another Indian woman found hanging from tree in Uttar Pradesh
Full Article BBC News
12 Jun 2014

A 19-year-old woman has been found hanging from a tree in a village in northern India, the third such case in a month in Uttar Pradesh state. The body was found in Thakurdwara, about three hours' drive from Delhi. Her family told police she was raped. A post mortem...

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Womens Supporters hold the Poster to protest against the recent rape cases
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick

updated 13 Jun 2014; published 13 Jun 2014
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India hangings: Fourth woman found hanging from tree in Uttar Pradesh
updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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India: Woman found hanging from tree in Uttar Pradesh
updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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Uttar Pradesh: Another woman found hanging from tree
updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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Woman found hanging from tree in Uttar Pradesh, family alleges gang-rape
updated 11 Jun 2014; published 11 Jun 2014
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Woman's body found hanging from a tree
updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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Woman found hanging from tree in Uttar Pradesh, family alleges gang-rape
File - After taxiing in an MQ-9 Reaper, Airman 1st Class Jon Mann walks under a Reaper's wing to place wheel chocks to prevent accidental movement April 24, 2013 at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M.
photo: USAF / Senior Airman Andrew Lee

updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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US Drones Hit Militants In Pakistan's North Waziristan'
updated 21 Apr 2014; published 21 Apr 2014
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2nd Drone Strike kills 30 al-Qaeda Militants in Yemen
updated 20 Apr 2014; published 20 Apr 2014
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Yemen: Drone strike kills 12 militants
updated 09 Mar 2014; published 09 Mar 2014
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US drone strikes kill eight suspected al Qaeda militants in Yemen
updated 20 Apr 2014; published 20 Apr 2014
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Drone Strike kills 12 al-Qaeda Militants in Yemen
updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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BREAKING NEWS - Second drone strike in hours hits Pakistani militant hideout
UNSC deplores terror attacks in Iraq
Full Article The Siasat Daily
12 Jun 2014

United Nations, June 11: The UN Security Council Wednesday strongly deplored an upsurge of terrorist attacks in northern Iraq, including the seize by Islamic insurgents of the country's second largest city of Mosul. It also condemned the recent terrorist attacks that are being perpetrated against the people of Iraq to destabilise the country and...

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People clean up in the aftermath of a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad's Sadr City, Iraq, Wednesday, June. 11, 2014.
photo: AP / Karim Kadim

updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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UN Condemns Iraqi Militant Attacks
updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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UN Condemns Iraqi Militant Attacks
updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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UN condemns Iraqi militant attacks -WATCH VIIDEO
updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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UNSC deplores terror attacks in Iraq
updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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UN condemns IRAQI militant ATTACKS | BREAKING NEWS - 12 JUNE 2014
updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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WATCH LIVE-UN condemns Iraqi militant attacks

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In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 file citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows rebels from al-Qaida affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, as they sit on a truck full of ammunition, at Taftanaz air base, that was captured by the rebels, in Idlib province, northern Syria.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syria branch of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has put fighting on hold in Syria while it brings in weapons seized inside neighboring Iraq, a monitoring group that tracks the violence said on Friday. ISIL, a...
photo: AP / Edlib News Network, ENN
Armed pro-Russian activists seize the Ukrainian regional administration building in the eastern Ukrainian town of Slovyansk, Ukraine, Monday, April 14, 2014. A pro-Russian mob stormed a Ukrainian police station in Horlivka, another city near the Russian border.
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KIEV, UkraineSenior Ukraine officials said on Thursday that three tanks and other military vehicles had trundled into the restive eastern region of the country from Russia, igniting a firefight between Ukrainian and pro-Kremlin groups. “Today...
photo: AP / Evgeniy Maloletka
Pigeons are released prior to the group A World Cup soccer match between Brazil and Croatia
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VOA News The 2014 World Cup is underway, with consensus-favorite Brazil seeking to win a record sixth World Cup title and its first since 2002, beating Croatia 3-1 in a Group A matchup at the Arena Corinthians, also referred to as Arena de Itaquera...
photo: AP / Shuji Kajiyama
Ivory Coast incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo looks up during his swearing-in ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010.
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By Thomas Escritt and Joe Bavier AMSTERDAM/ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo is be tried at the International Criminal Court on charges of crimes against humanity during post-election violence in which around 3,000...
photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell
British Foreign Secretary William Hague, centre, US actress Angelina Jolie, right, Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and US actor and Jolie's partner Brad Pitt, left, pose for the photographers as they arrive at the 'End Sexual Violence in Conflict' summit in London, Thursday, June 12, 2014. The Summit welcomes governments from over 100 countries, over 900 experts, NGOs, Faith leaders, and representatives from international organisations across the world.
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Hollywood heart-throb Brad Pitt added even more star power as he joined partner Angelina Jolie and "Team Hague" at a global summit to end rape in war zones. Human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin, who has become engaged to Pitt's friend and fellow pin-up...
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California to add child care, transitional kindergarten slots in budget deal
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California will add thousands of additional transitional kindergarten and child care slots for young children, according to a budget deal taking shape at the Capitol, while falling short of a broader program expansion Democratic lawmakers originally...
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Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki walks onstage prior to speaking at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011.
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Civilian children stand next to a burnt vehicle during clashes between Iraqi security forces and al Qaeda-linked Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the northern Iraq city of Mosul, June 10, 2014. See Also Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri...
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