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Top US general opposes ‘terror’ delisting for Iran Guards elite force

The Pentagon’s top general said Thursday he was opposed to removing the elite Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards from the US terror group list, one of Tehran’s conditions for restoring the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement. “In my personal opinion, I believe the IRGC Quds Force to be a terrorist …

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Mali tri-border security worrying

The security situation on Mali’s borders with Burkina Faso and Niger has deteriorated to the stage where the UN mission in the landlocked west African country notes “significant” population displacement. “Attacks by armed terrorist groups have a devastating impact on an already distressed civilian population, resulting in dozens of deaths …

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Missile kills at least 52 at crowded Ukrainian train station

A missile hit a train station in eastern Ukraine where thousands had gathered Friday, killing at least 52 and wounding dozens more in an attack on a crowd of mostly women and children trying to flee a new, looming Russian offensive, Ukrainian authorities said. The attack, denounced by some as …

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