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U.S. reports 11 air strikes against Islamic State in Syria, Iraq
U.S.-led forces launched five air strikes near Kobani, Syria, and six in Iraq since Thursday in their battle against Islamic ...Cuba dissidents say 36 activists freed as part of deal with U.S.
One of Cuba\'s most prominent dissident groups said on Friday that 36 opposition activists, including a popular hip-hop artist, have ...Saudi says arrests seven Saudis, Syrians over suicide border attack
Saudi Arabia has arrested three Saudi nationals and four Syrians over links to a suicide bombing and gun attack on ...At least 12 dead in France magazine attack
Heavily armed gunmen shouting Islamist slogans stormed a Paris satirical newspaper office Wednesday and shot dead at least 12 people ...Captured Uganda rebel Ongwen, one-time victim turned killer
Abducted by gunmen as a 10-year old boy on his way to school, Dominic Ongwen rose to become one of ...Car bomb kills 30 outside Yemen police college
A car bomb exploded outside a police college in Yemen\'s capital Sanaa on Wednesday, killing about 30 people and wounding ...Dozens of Islamist fighters killed as battle of Kobani rages on
Forty-one Islamic State militants were killed in the Syrian border town of Kobani on Tuesday as U.S.-led air strikes helped ...2014 was hottest in Britain since 1910: Met Office
Last year was Britain\'s warmest since records began in 1910, the Met Office weather agency said Monday.Boko Haram seizes military base in Nigeria
Suspected Boko Haram militants have seized a military base outside the Nigerian town of Baga near Lake Chad after engaging ...Suicide bomber kills 4 people in Somalia, police say
A Somali police officer says a suicide car bomber blew himself up near a moving convoy of Somalia\'s U.S.-trained elite ...