Every fall, when farmers across the rolling, red dirt hills of Idlib Province in northern Syria harvest their olive crops, they routinely find at least one representative of the local tax authority stationed at any oil press. The tax collector takes at least 5 percent of the oil, and farmers grouse that there are no […]
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Syrian rebels shocked the country with a lightning offensive on its biggest city and the surrounding region starting last week, upending a 13-year-old civil war that had been dormant for several years. By seizing that city, Aleppo, occupying large stretches of the countryside and advancing on the western city of Hama, the rebels have been
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Police say 31 Maoist rebels killed in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh after a nine-hour firefight. At least 31 suspected Maoist rebels have been killed during a clash with Indian security forces, state police said. The confrontation took place on Friday after counterinsurgency forces, acting on intelligence, surrounded approximately 50 suspected rebels in the
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Indonesian police say Mehrtens has been flown out of mountainous Nduga and appears in good health. New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been freed by rebels in Indonesia’s troubled eastern region of Papua 19 months after he was kidnapped. “Today, we have picked up pilot Phillip, who is in good health, and we flew him
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Yemeni Houthi rebels have released a video of an attack they claim to have carried out on an oil tanker in the Red Sea. The footage shows a small vessel approach, then collide with the left side of the ship, resulting in a large explosion. BBC Verify has confirmed that the tanker seen in the
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A ship traveling through the Red Sea on Thursday reported being hit in an attack likely carried out by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, authorities said, the latest in the campaign targeting shipping over the Israel-Hamas war. The ship issued a radio call off the coast of the rebel-held port city
Military leaders say Algiers Accord cancelled with ‘immediate effect’ due to signatories not upholding commitments. Mali’s military rulers have announced the cancellation of a 2015 peace deal with separatist rebels after months of fighting in the West African nation. Military authorities said late on Thursday that the so-called Algiers Accord had ended with “immediate effect”
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Several U.S. military personnel were injured in a missile attack Saturday night by Iranian-backed rebels on Al-Asad Airbase in Iraq, the Pentagon said. At about 6:30 p.m. local time, multiple ballistic missiles and rockets were fired by Iranian-backed militants from western Iraq, U.S. Central Command said in a statement posted to social media. The base’s air
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