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ISIS sexually
brutalizing captured
women: UN

 

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QUETTA: Gunmen killed at least 19
passengers they had forced off buses
travelling from the western Pakistani
city of Quetta to Karachi on the
southern coast, said the home
minister for the restive province of
Baluchistan, where the attack took
place.
The assault occurred late on Friday
in the town of Mastung, around 40
km south of Quetta.
"The armed men were wearing the
uniforms of the security forces,"
Sarfaraz Bugti told Reuters. The
bodies of 19 passengers had been
found so far, he said.

http://m.timesofindia.com/world/pak...s-in-Pakistan-attack/articleshow/47476602.cms

 

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BAGHDAD: The blind man with just
one hand arrived at the main
mosque in the centre of the Iraqi
city of Ramadi at dusk on
Wednesday, flanked by Islamic State
fighters.
When the evening prayer was over,
the man, whose head was shrouded
in black, delivered a speech to the
faithful, hailing the Islamic State's
capture of the capital of Anbar
Province -- its greatest victory over
Iraqi forces in almost a year.
Ali Attiya al-Jubouri, widely known as
"the blind judge", is one of Islamic
State's most senior figures and his
presence in the mosque signalled
the group's dominance over the city,
which it seized on May 17 from
hapless government forces.


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TRIPOLI: A pre-dawn suicide attack
in northwest Libya Sunday claimed
by the Islamic State group killed five
members of the Fajr Libya militia
alliance that controls the capital, a
militia spokesman said.
"A car suicide bomber blew himself
up near a checkpoint at an entrance
of Dafniya," between the town of
Zliten and Libya's third city Misrata,
said the Fajr Libya spokesman.
The attack, which occurred at 3:00
am (0500 GMT), killed five members
of the militia alliance and wounded
seven others, he added.

 

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A suicide bomb blast outside a
mosque and rocket-propelled
grenades that exploded into homes
as people slept have killed at least
30 people in the Nigerian city
Maiduguri, residents and officials
said.

 

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Suicide attack on Iraq police base
kills at least 37

 

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PESHAWAR: At least three people
were killed and two others injured as
supporters of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf
and ruling Pakistan Muslim League-
Nawaz clashed over alleged rigging
in local bodies elections in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa.
The clash broke out in Abbotabad
district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after
both the groups accused each other
of rigging during the local bodies
elections.
The activists of PTI and PML-N of
Dhamtour Union Council were going
to Returning Officer's office to lodge
their reservations over election
rigging in the union council when
the clash erupted, officials said.
When the activists of both the
parties met in Fawara Chowk, they
started raising slogans against each
other and exchanged fire in which
three people, including two
brothers, believed to be PTI activists
were killed.

 

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ISLAMABAD: At least three political
activists were killed in poll violence
in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
province, media reported on
Wednesday.
According to police, supporters of a
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz
candidate, who had lost the election,
opened fire at Pakistan Tehreek-i-
Insaf workers, killing three of them
and injuring two others, Dawn
reported.
With these killings, the toll in poll-
related violence in the province has
risen to 21.
On Monday, a councillor-elect of
Chammad village council was killed
by rivals when he on his way back to
home.
Khan Mohammad was elected
chairman of the council in the
election last week.

 

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Tariq Aziz, who was foreign minister
of Iraq under Saddam Hussein, has
died in prison, Iraqi officials said on
Friday. He was 79.
Aziz surrendered in April 2003 to a
US invasion force which overthrew
Saddam. He was sentenced to death
seven years later over the
persecution of Islamic parties under
the former Iraqi leader.
He had long complained of ill health
during his detention.

 

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Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi to visit China