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Somali Islamists threaten more carnage after attack on U.N. base
Reuters* Al Shabaab say aim is to expel "disbelievers" * Somalia struggling to emerge from two decades of conflict * Reform of security forces seen key to cementing gains By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU, June 20 (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamist al Shabaab rebel group...Tags: Government, Wars and Interventions, Explosions, Politics, Somalia
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Insight: Pakistan influence on Taliban commanders helped Afghan breakthrough
ReutersISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's powerful military has played a central role in convincing Afghanistan's Taliban rebels to hold talks with the United States, U.S. and Pakistani officials said, a shift from widely held views in Washington that it was...Tags: John Kerry, Government, Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, Islamabad (Pakistan), Hamid Karzai
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U.S.-Taliban peace talks delayed
ReutersDOHA (Reuters) - A fresh effort to end Afghanistan's 12-year-old war looked in disarray on Thursday after a diplomatic spat about the Taliban's new Qatar office delayed preliminary discussions between the United States and the Islamist insurgents....Tags: John Kerry, Government, U.S. Military, Philosophy, Peace Negotiations
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Special Report: How Syria's Islamists govern with guile and guns
ReutersRAQQA, Syria (Reuters) - The Syrian boys looked edgy and awkward. Three months ago their town, the eastern desert city of Raqqa, had fallen to rebel fighters trying to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad's government. Now the four boys - clad in tight...Tags: Renewable Energy, Feminism, Hydroelectricity, Al-Qaeda, Chaos (tv program)
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WRAPUP 1-Afghan peace bid stumbles on Kabul-Taliban protocol row
Reuters* Protocol spat snarls revived peace bid * Exchange of captives expected to be discussed By Amena Bakr DOHA, June 20 (Reuters) - A fresh effort to end Afghanistan's 12-year-old war looked in disarray on Thursday after a diplomatic spat about the...Tags: Government, Philosophy, U.S. Military, U.S. Department of State, Hamid Karzai
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INTERVIEW-Iraq says proxy war over Syria threatens its neutrality
Reuters* Zebari says pressure on Iraqi neutrality enormous * Decries lack of international consensus on Syria * Iraq denies it lets Iran fly weapons across its airspace By Samia Nakhoul and Patrick Markey BAGHDAD, June 20 (Reuters) - Iraq is being buffeted...Tags: Government, Baghdad (Iraq), Lebanon, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Wars and Interventions
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WRAPUP 5-Afghan government to shun U.S. talks with Taliban
Reuters* Angry Karzai says to stay out of talks * Taliban flag and banner in Doha stir controversy * U.S. secretary of state to travel to Qatar this week * Four American soldiers killed in attack on Bagram base (Recasts, adds Kerry-Karzai phone calls, timing...Tags: Philosophy, Peace Negotiations, U.S. Department of State, Hamid Karzai, Al-Qaeda
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Nigeria bans satellite phones in Islamist battleground
Reuters* Nigeria says militants use Thuraya phones to plan attacks * Military offensive aims to crush Boko Haram rebels MAIDUGURI, June 19 (Reuters) - Nigeria's military banned the use of Thuraya satellite phones on Wednesday in northeastern Borno state, a...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Nigeria, Politics, Health and Safety at School, Freedom of the Press
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Obama, Syria and the Aspin Doctrine
Los Angeles Times (MCT)As President Obama contemplates his many bad options in Syria, he may want to consider the Aspin Doctrine, an argument for intervention abroad made by President Clinton's first secretary of defense, Les Aspin. In 1993, the Clinton administration was...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lebanon, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Central Intelligence Agency
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Syrian rebels claim attack on Shi'ites in Lebanon
ReutersBEIRUT, June 19 (Reuters) - A Syrian rebel unit has claimed responsibility in a video for killing four Shi'ite men in Lebanon this week as Syria's civil war spills into its smaller, religiously divided neighbour. In the video, posted on Tuesday by a...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Lebanon, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Religious Conflicts, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Special Report: Syria's Islamists seize control as moderates dither
ReutersALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - As the Syrian civil war got under way, a former electrician who calls himself Sheikh Omar built up a brigade of rebel fighters. In two years of struggle against President Bashar al-Assad, they came to number 2,000 men, he said,...Tags: Arts and Culture, Government, Islam, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Weaponry
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