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Full Article CNN
16 Dec 2014

December 16, 2014 -- Updated 1740 GMT (0140 HKT) Soldiers patrol the streets in Peshawar, Pakistan, near a school that was attacked by the Pakistan Taliban on Tuesday, December 16. Militants stormed the military-run school in northwest Pakistan, killing more than 140 people, most of them children. More than 100 people were injured. The uncle and...

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Pakistani parents escort their children outside a school attacked by the Taliban in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014.
photo: AP / B.K. Bangash

updated 16 Dec 2014; published 16 Dec 2014
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Taliban School Attack Peshawar (VIDEO) Pakistan Children Shot Dead in Army School
updated 16 Dec 2014; published 16 Dec 2014
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Pakistan School Attack in Peshawar - Many Students Killed in Taliban Milatary School Attack
updated 16 Dec 2014; published 16 Dec 2014
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Terrorist Attack on Army School in Peshawar Pakistan (VIDEO) Taliban Shot Dead Dozens Of Children
updated 16 Dec 2014; published 16 Dec 2014
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Taliban 'kill 100' at Pakistan school in Peshawar - BBC News
updated 16 Dec 2014; published 16 Dec 2014
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Taliban School Attacks - Taliban Attack Peshawar Pakistani School, 126 Dead
updated 16 Dec 2014; published 16 Dec 2014
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Pakistan school attack: Taliban militants kill scores of children
Boko Haram could 'disenfranchise Nigeria voters'
Full Article BBC News
16 Dec 2014

At least 1.5 million people displaced by the Islamist insurgency in north-east Nigeria may not be able to vote in elections if the law is not changed, an electoral official has told the BBC. Discrepancies in the law needed to be resolved in "very good time" or people could be disenfranchised, he added. Ex-military ruler Muhammadu Buhari...

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An unidentified woman who fled her home following an attack by Islamist militants, in Mubi, prepares a meal at the camp for internally displaced people in Yola, Nigeria, Friday Nov. 28, 2014.
photo: AP / Sunday Alabama

updated 16 Nov 2014; published 16 Nov 2014
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ICC Begins Examination Of Nigeria's Effort In Tackling Boko Haram
Sydney siege gives Australians a wake-up call on terrorism
Full Article Stars and Stripes
16 Dec 2014

SYDNEY, Australia (Tribune News Service) — A tense siege in the heart of Sydney reached a deafening and fatal finale in the early hours of Tuesday, forcing Australians to confront the somber reality that their country had become a new target for Islamist terrorism. The first such attack on Australian soil in decades left two hostages dead and three...

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An armed tactical response police officer grabs a hostage as she flees from a cafe under siege at Martin Place in the central business district of Sydney, Australia, Monday, Dec. 15, 2014.
photo: AP / Rob Griffith

updated 15 Dec 2014; published 15 Dec 2014
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Australian Terrorist Attack: Gunman Takes Hostages In Sydney Cafe
updated 15 Dec 2014; published 15 Dec 2014
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Police Storm Sydney Siege Cafe - GUNFIRE, BLASTS AS SYDNEY SIEGE ENDS
updated 15 Dec 2014; published 15 Dec 2014
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Why Australia refuses to call Sydney siege a terror attack.
updated 15 Dec 2014; published 15 Dec 2014
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Australian Terrorist Attack: Sydney Siege Gunman Takes 13 Hostages in Lindt Cafe
updated 16 Dec 2014; published 16 Dec 2014
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The moment police storm the Lindt cafe in Sydney (Live)
updated 15 Dec 2014; published 15 Dec 2014
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NSW POLICE News Conference About Hostage Situation at Lindt Cafe, Sydney Australia ( VIDEO)
Obama warns Islamic State
Full Article The Columbus Dispatch
16 Dec 2014

FORT DIX, N.J. — President Barack Obama used a holiday-season visit to a U.S. military base yesterday to issue a tough warning to Islamic State militants, saying a U.S.-led coalition will permit no safe haven to the group and will destroy it eventually. Obama spoke to hundreds of camouflage-wearing...

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An F/A-18E Super Hornet from the Sunliners of Strike Fighter Squadron 81 launches from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, to undertake strike operations in Iraq and Syria as directed during Operation Inherent Resolve, 4 December, 2014.
photo: US Navy / MCS2 John Philip Wagner Jr

updated 05 Sep 2014; published 05 Sep 2014
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Obama calls on coalition of allies to defeat Islamic State
updated 23 Sep 2014; published 23 Sep 2014
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Obama to continue building coalition against Islamic State, Jordan confirms involvement
updated 22 Sep 2014; published 22 Sep 2014
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Obama to Rally Coalition Against Islamic State Group at UN
updated 11 Sep 2014; published 11 Sep 2014
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Obama Vows Allied Coalition to Degrade and Destroy Islamic State
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American Islamic Leadership Coalition members discuss President Obama with Bill O'Reilly
updated 11 Sep 2014; published 11 Sep 2014
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Obama: US will lead coalition to 'destroy Islamic State'
TTP militants storm Peshawar school, 104 killed
Full Article Dawn
16 Dec 2014

PESHAWAR: Taliban militants have entered an army-run school on Warsak road, taking students and teachers hostage. Five to six terrorists have entered the Army Public School 104 including 84 children killed, scores injured Firefight, evacuation underway About 500 students and teachers are believed to be inside 2:11 pm - PM Nawaz leaves for Peshawar...

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Pakistani volunteers carry a student injured in the shootout at a school under attack by Taliban gunmen, at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan,Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014.
photo: AP / Mohammad Sajjad

updated 16 Dec 2014; published 16 Dec 2014
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Peshawar school attack: 126 dead; Taliban says wanted Pak Army to 'eel our pain: Part 1: World News
updated 16 Dec 2014; published 16 Dec 2014
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Indian PM Narendra Modi condemns deadly Taliban attack on Pakistan school
updated 16 Dec 2012; published 16 Dec 2012
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Peshawar airport attack: 10 killed, over 40 injured
updated 16 Dec 2014; published 16 Dec 2014
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Peshawar LIVE: 20 dead, 40 injured in Taliban attack on military-run school: World News
updated 16 Dec 2014; published 16 Dec 2014
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Pakistan In Shock After School Attack That Killed More Than 100
updated 16 Dec 2014; published 16 Dec 2014
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Indian PM Narendra Modi condemns deadly Taliban attack on Pakistan school

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