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Egypt helicopter gunships kill 20 militants

Egyptian helicopter gunships killed 20 militants in Sinai on Wednesday, state media and the army said, days after 16 soldiers were killed in an attack attributed to Islamist extremists. The military’s strikes on Tumah village – its first in the peninsula for decades – were carried out as security forces…

Algeria to lift state of emergency before end of February

ALGIERS – Algeria said Wednesday it will lift by the end of February the state of emergency slapped on the country 19 years ago at the start of a decade-long bloody conflict with Islamist militants. “The lifting of the state of emergency will take place before the end of the…

UN suppressed report on US, Soviet ‘atrocities’ in Afghanistan: report

GENEVA — The United Nations buried a report into rights violations in Afghanistan between 1978 and 2001 that accused Soviets, Islamists and US forces of “atrocities”, a Swiss newspaper said on Saturday. The revelations emerged a day after the UN published a hotly contested report into crimes committed by armed…