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Hezbollah commander Mustafa Amine Badreddine killed
A senior Hezbollah commander has been killed in Syria, the Lebanon-based Shia militant organisation says. Mustafa Amine Badreddine died in a large explosion near Damascus airport, Hezbollah said in a statement on the website of its al-Manar network. It rolled back on an earlier claim that Israel was responsible. Badreddine is...
An airman in Texas fatally shot his commander before turning the gun on himself
AN airman shot his commander in an apparent murder-suicide Friday at a U.S. air force base in Texas, a senior U.S. official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorised to publicly discuss the shooting at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. Two handguns were found near the bodies of the...
Top IS commander targeted in US strike
The US military says it targeted a top commander of so-called Islamic State in an air strike in Syria last week. An initial assessment suggested Tarkhan Batirashvili, also known as Omar Shishani, was likely killed along with 12 other militants, officials said. The strike took place on Friday near the north-eastern town of...