June, 2015

• 29 June

  Tunisia make first arrest after beach attack

  Tunisia said on Monday it had made its first arrests after a beach massacre that killed 38 people, as European officials paid tribute to victims of the country’s worst jihadist attack. British Home Secretary Theresa May, speaking at the scene of Friday’s gun attack at a Tunisian holiday resort, vowed …

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• 26 June

  NATO to continue support for Afghanistan

  NATO defence ministers confirmed, during a meeting of the NATO mission Resolute Support nations here on Thursday, enduring support for Afghanistan. The meeting, attended by Afghan Acting Minister of Defence Masoom Stanezkai, reviewed the security situation and the first six months of the Resolute Support mission.

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• 26 June

  Obama, Putin discuss Ukraine situation

  The US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putting discussed Thursday, via phone, the global efforts to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the developments in Ukraine.

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• 26 June

  UN peacekeepers help neutralise DRC militia group

  The United Nations said on Wednesday that around a quarter of Congolese militia group the Patriotic Revolutionary Forces of Ituri (FRPI) had been “neutralised” after a three-week military operation.

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• 26 June

  Niger army clashes with Boko Haram in Diffa region

  Niger’s army has killed 15 Boko Haram Islamic extremists, captured 20 others and destroyed ammunition cars and motorcycles from the militants, a military spokesperson said. The attack in Niger by its military came the night after Boko Haram members had attacked the village of Yebbi in the Diffa region on …

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• 26 June

  Somalian militants attacked AU base

  Somali al-Shabaab militants fought a gunbattle with African Union troops after ramming a car laden with explosives into their base south of the capital Mogadishu early on Friday, military officials and a spokesperson for the group said.

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• 26 June

  Tunisia: At least 27 killed in terror attack

  At least 27 people, including foreign tourists, were killed when at least one gunman opened fire on a Tunisian beachside hotel in the popular resort of Sousse on June 26, an interior ministry spokesman said.

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• 26 June

  The battle in Syria's Hasakeh displace over 50,000 people

  Clashes between the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and government troops in the northeast Syrian city of Hasakeh have displaced an estimated 60,000 people, a UN agency said on June 25. The UN office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs (OCHA) said at least 50,000 people …

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• 23 June

  Tuareg rebels sign Malian peace deal on Saturday

  Mali’s Tuareg-led rebel alliance signed a landmark deal on Saturday to end years of unrest in a nation driven by ethnic divisions and in the grip of a jihadist insurgency. The Algiers Accord aims to bring stability to the country’s vast northern desert, cradle of several Tuareg uprisings since the …

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• 23 June

  EU extends sanction on Russia over Ukraine conflict

  The European Union on Monday extended economic sanctions against Russia until January to keep pressure on Moscow over the conflict in eastern Ukraine, drawing a rebuke and a warning of retaliation from Russian officials. An EU statement said the decision was taken without debate by the bloc’s foreign ministers at …

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