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  • Spain defeats Argentina in the final to win their second World Cup.
  • Bahrain's interior ministry reported that its air raid sirens had sounded overnight on Sunday and Monday.
  • During what U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) called "a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way attack drone" in northern Iraq on Saturday, one American service member was killed and another was injured.
  • Three missiles launched from Iran struck various parts of Jordan, according to a statement posted by the army online on Sunday.
  • On Sunday, the International Atomic Energy Agency said that it was "looking into reports of an overnight attack on the construction site of a planned nuclear power plant in Darkhovin, Iran," following allegations of a U.S. strike on the facility made by Iran's Atomic Energy Organization.
  • Early on Sunday morning, a shooting in Tucson, Arizona, left nine people injured, the alleged gunman was shot by police and sent to a nearby hospital with life-threatening fatal injuries.

Tag: Afghan Insurgency

January 24, 2019

Afghan Leader Calls On the World...

Amid ongoing deadly violence in Afghanistan, the country’s Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah is calling on the United States and the world not to give up on his people

December 19, 2018

The Forgotten Afghan Province That Is...

During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, Zabul was a main gateway for the anti-Soviet mujahedin fighters streaming into Afghanistan from Pakistan

December 15, 2018

Ethnic Uzbeks Flee Taliban in N....

Hundreds of ethnic Uzbek residents were forced to flee their homes in northern Faryab province because of the recent expansion of Taliban in border areas with Uzbekistan

December 13, 2018

US-Trained Afghan Pilots Conduct First Nighttime...

The Afghan ministry of defense Wednesday released footage of a series of nighttime airstrikes carried out by Afghan security forces. Afghan officials told VOA the airstrikes were carried out in southern Uruzgan province against Taliban hideouts

November 30, 2018

Geneva Conference on Afghanistan

Abdullah Abdullah, CEO of National Unity Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, addresses the closing session of the Geneva Conference on Afghanistan

Taliban: Attack Retaliation for Civilian Casualties

The Taliban claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on a British private security company, G4S, that killed at least 10 people and wounded more than 30 others in the capital, Kabul

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