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  • Monday’s operation targeted the Hafiz Gul Bahadur militant faction, which claimed responsibility for the attack on a military outpost that left seven soldiers dead
  • Pakistan has ‘repeatedly conveyed its serious concerns’ to the Afghan interim government over the presence of terrorist elements across the border

He is one of the most controversial political figures of the country who spent more than 10 years in jail before he first became president in 2008.

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Iran’s judiciary has executed a ‘terrorist’ over a drone attack that targeted a defence ministry site in central Iran last year, state media reported.

The British government took away Shamima Begum’s citizenship on national security grounds in 2019, shortly after she was found in a detention camp in Syria.

The US and Philippine governments both alleged Myrna Mabanza was involved in two 2016 fund transfers – one of up to US$107,000 – to the then leader of ISIS-Philippines.

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Khadafi Mimbesa, ‘mastermind’ of the December 3 attack in Marawi, the country’s largest Muslim city, was hurt in a shoot-out between army soldiers and militants last month and died days later.

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Imran Khan’s PTI party won the most seats but its biggest rivals – the PML-N party of ex-PM Nawaz Sharif, and ex-president Asif Ali Zardari’s PPP – have won enough seats between them to form a government.

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No group claimed responsibility, but the Islamist militant Pakistani Taliban and separatist groups from Balochistan, have carried out attacks in recent months.

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Sweden’s national bomb squad destroyed a ‘dangerous object’ discovered on the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, which media have reported it as a hand grenade.

New UN report says the threat from al-Qaeda, Islamic State and their affiliates remains high in key conflict zones – and that threat levels have risen in some regions including Europe.

Official statements after Wang Yi and Jake Sullivan meet in Bangkok make no mention of attacks in key maritime corridor, with one analyst calling the issue ‘too important to avoid’ but ‘too sensitive to mention’.

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Observers say Islamabad is ‘signalling’ to Narendra Modi’s administration ahead of India’s elections later this year. New Delhi carried out cross-border strikes on Pakistani militants before its last polls in 2019.

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Iraqi PM Mohammed Shia al-Sudani held meetings with Brian Nelson, the US Treasury’s Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, to work on countering illicit finance.

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Observers said the Taliban’s hopes that the completed project will become a link to China’s vast network are unlikely to be shared by Beijing.

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Malaysians Mohammed Farik bin Amin and Mohammed Nazir bin Lep must be punished to the fullest extent of the law for their ‘savage destruction of life’, the victims said.

Investigations found that the teen had been self-radicalised by online far-right extremist propaganda and wanted to further the white supremacist cause, even though he is of Chinese ethnicity.