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On November 18, 2016, ISIS used a suicide car bomb to attack an Iraqi police officer’s wedding in Amiriyah Fallujah, killing 40 people and injuring more than 60 others. 
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On November 15, 2018, the Taliban carried out a surprise attack on an army base in Afghanistan’s Farah province, killing at least 40 security personnel.  
In their own words
The Turkish government today, by entering into an open war with the Islamic State, is only cutting its own throat with its own knife, slicing its own veins with its own hand, hanging itself with its own ropes, and wrecking its own house – and indeed, the weakest house is that of a spider.
Rumiyah, ISIS Magazine Nov. 2016
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On November 13, 2018, Boko Haram militants attacked farmers in villages throughout Nigeria’s Borno State, leaving 16 dead and 35 missing.
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On November 8, 2016, ISIS massacred at least 300 civilians in the town of Hamam al-Alil in Iraq’s Nineveh Governorate. As part of the larger battle for Mosul, ISIS militants had rounded up men and boys over the age of 9 to fight; those who refused were executed.
In their own words
There is no doubt that ISIS is a bastard child of the United States. I and my comrades will never surrender to the involvement of the United States and its allies in Iraq, and this was our position from the beginning.... [ISIS’s] main designers and the creators were the United States and their master, Israel.
Hadi al-Amiri, Badr Organization leader June 2019
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On November 6, 2018, Taliban militants attacked an army checkpoint in Farah Province, Afghanistan, killing 20 Afghan soldiers and leaving several wounded or missing.
In their own words
My Muslim brothers: Trump was clear and frank, and revealed the true face of the modern Crusade, which does not deal with retreat and reconciliation, and only da’wah and jihad can resist it.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, Leader of al-Qaeda May 13, 2018
Ayman al-Zawahiri
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On November 4, 2016, ISIS detonated a car bomb in front of police headquarters in the predominately Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, Turkey. The explosion killed at least 11 people and more than 100 were wounded.