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Jul- 2019 -19 July
Nigeria: Aid convoy driver killed, 6 people missing after ambush near Damasak
An aid convoy driver was killed and six people are missing following an ambush in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, Action Against Hunger said
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19 July
Afghanistan university students killed by ‘sticky bomb’ blast in Kabul
At least eight people were killed and dozens more wounded when a bomb detonated near a university in the Afghan capital Kabul
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17 July
Seven Niger Tuareg leaders killed by Islamic State since April
Islamic State insurgents have killed seven leaders of the Tuareg ethnic group in southwestern Niger in less than three months
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13 July
Somalia: At least 7 dead in al-Shabaab suicide bomb and gun attack at Kismayo hotel
At least seven people were killed in a complex Al-Shabaab suicide vehicle bomb and gun attack on a hotel in Kismayo in southern Somalia
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11 July
Syria: Bomb explodes outside church in Qamishli Christian neighborhood
A car bomb detonated near a church in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeast Syria, wounding almost a dozen people
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11 July
Libya: Casualties reported after car bomb in Benghazi
At least three people were killed and 15 wounded when a car bomb exploded in a cemetery of the Libyan city of Benghazi during an ex-army commander's funeral
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8 July
Afghanistan school children increasingly vulnerable in surging conflict
Children in Afghanistan are increasingly the victims of brutal violence even as the government and Taliban sit down for peace talks
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8 July
Nigeria civilians killed in Gajigana airstrike targeting ISWAP
At least 13 civilians were reported killed in an air raid as the Nigerian military repelled an ISWAP assault in Gajigana in Borno state
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5 July
Car bomb in southern Turkey kills 3 Syrian nationals
At least three people were killed on Friday, July 5 after a car blast in the Turkish town of Reyhanli close to the Syrian border, state media reported. Two others were also injured, state news agency Anadolu said, as ambulances and police were rushed to the scene. The governor of Hatay province, where Reyhanli is located, Rahmi Dogan, told Anadolu that the cause of the explosion was not yet known. “The initial findings suggest there may be more of a link with terror,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters in Istanbul. “It is clear there was a bomb in the car,” he said. Three people were killed, all Syrian nationals, Erdogan said. “Our colleagues are looking into who was behind this,” he said in televised comments, adding the government would provide more information in a few hours. The blast took place less than a kilometer from the Reyhanli district governor’s office around 1000 GMT, Anadolu reported. Images in Turkish media showed thick black smoke and flames from the car as firefighters fought the blaze. A twin car bombing blamed on pro-Damascus groups in May 2013 in Reyhanli killed over 50 people in one of the deadliest attacks in Turkey’s modern …
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3 July
Raqqa civil authorities uncover new mass grave of ISIS victims
Two hundred corpses, including those of people believed to have been executed by Islamic State, were found near the Syrian city of Raqqa
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