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Portugal military and paramilitary police officers arrested over 2017 arms theft

Senior figures in Portugal's military and paramilitary police forces were arrested over a theft from a military arms depot last year

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Tunisia: Two killed in land mine blast in jihadist hideout near Algeria border

Two people were killed in a land mine blast in Mount Chaambi in central Tunisia near the border with Algeria, an area used as a hideout by jihadist militants

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Fear and mourning in Afghanistan: Hazaras mark the festival of Muharram in fragile Dasht-e-Barchi

In Kabul’s largely Shia Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood, Shadi Saif finds some from Afghanistan's persecuted minority community taking security into their own hands

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UN investigates ‘credible’ reported Afghanistan airstrike that killed 9 from a single family

The UN said it was investigating reports that 9 family members had been killed in an airstrike in Afghanistan, but US Forces denied the victims were civilians

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Nigeria troops thwart Boko Haram attack on military base in Borno state

Nigerian troops repelled another attempt by Boko Haram to overrun a military base in northeast Nigeria, military and civilian sources said

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Rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo launch deadly raid, kidnap 17

One person was killed and 17 were kidnapped in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in a raid blamed on a notorious Ugandan militia accused of a massacre two days earlier

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Iran blames ‘jihadist separatists’ for Ahvaz military parade attack

Iran's intelligence ministry blamed "jihadist separatists" for last week's deadly attack on a military parade in the southwestern city of Ahvaz

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Yemen Houthis mass-produced mines and IEDs using Iranian components, CAR report finds

A Conflict Armament Research report has found that Yemen's Houthi rebels have standardized and mass-produced improvised explosive devices

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Speaking to and about extremists

De-radicalization practitioners need to be aware of the pitfalls of their language in the counter-narrative versus alternative narrative dichotomy

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Bodies of 3 Burkina Faso police found as search for abducted mine staff continues

Three police officers were killed in a northern region of Burkina Faso where they were hunting for three kidnapped mineworkers, a security official said

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