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Attacks on Saudi facilities threaten spare oil capacity, price hikes

The Iranian-backed Houthis group in Yemen claimed responsibility for attacks that shut two plants at the Abqaiq facilityCrude prices could spike by several dollars per barrel when markets open Sunday night

2 min read15 Sep 2019
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Saudi oil output cut in half after drones strike Aramco site

Saudi Aramco had to cut production by as much as 5 million barrels a day as a precautionary measure after the attack on the Abqaiq plantIran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, who have launched several drone attacks on Saudi targets, claimed responsibility

3 min read14 Sep 2019
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Afghan Taliban launch spring offensive as US reviews strategy

The Taliban on Friday announced Operation Mansouri, its spring offensive against Afghan and foreign forces using a mix of conventional, guerrilla and suicide attacks

2 min read28 Apr 2017
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Pakistan’s ISI protecting Al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri in Karachi: report

Al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri is most likely hiding in Karachi under protection of Pakistan's spy agency ISI, since US forces evicted Al-Qaeda from Afghanistan in late 2001, says the report

2 min read22 Apr 2017
Politics

Kerala youth who ‘joined’ IS killed in Afghanistan drone strike

Murshid Muhammed, a native of Padna in Kasargod district, was killed in an anti-Islamic State drone attack in Nangarhar province in Afghanistan

1 min read14 Apr 2017
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Donald Trump gives CIA authority to carry out drone strikes

The Trump administration is also giving the military more authority to conduct operations on its own without first getting a go-ahead from the Pentagon or the White House

2 min read14 Mar 2017
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The Predator drone retires, but the Reaper lies in wait

The US air force fielded its first Predator, the RQ-1, a reconnaissance model, in April 1996

2 min read7 Mar 2017
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First drone strike under Donald Trump kills two militants in Pakistan

The CIA-operated drone, first under Trump administration, fired a missile that killed two suspected militants on the spot in a village in Kurram Agency, near Afghanistan border

1 min read2 Mar 2017
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Militants launch car bomb, gun attack on Somali police base, 10 dead

Islamist group al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the assault on HQ of Somalia's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Mogadishu

1 min read31 Jul 2016
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John Kerry to visit Pakistan to mend ties

John Kerry will visit Islamabad to mend ties following the killing of Taliban chief Mullah Mansour in a drone strike in May

1 min read27 Jul 2016
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