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On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
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On January 3, 2021, ISIS militants kidnapped 11 coal miners in Machh, Balochistan, Pakistan. The jihadists blindfolded their hostages and tied their hands behind their backs before slitting their throats. The victims were members of the Hazara minority.
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On December 23, 2021, gunmen ambushed a group of Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland (VDP) conducting a sweep of a remote area in Burkina Faso’s northern Loroum province, killing at least 41 civilian fighters. Following the attack, the Burkinabe government declared two days of national mourning.
Democracy wears the feathers of a dove, yet is delivered at the tip of a bayonet... It is an insidious and inhuman system that so adeptly maneuvers and exploits the bedlam of public discord it has created.
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On December 21, 2020, Boko Haram assailants launched a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) that hit a Nigerian military convoy and killed five soldiers in Borno State.
We are a resistance group. Without America, there is no Israel. The image I see before my eyes is of people grabbing their suitcases and heading to the airports, seaports and the Jordanian and Egyptian borders. This is the image I imagine. This entity has no future.
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On December 17, 2018, the bodies of 24-year-old Danish woman Louisa Vesterager Jespersen and 28-year-old Norwegian woman Maren Ueland were found decapitated in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Suspects in the murders released a video on the internet showing several perpetrators swearing allegiance to ISIS while carrying out the attack.
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On December 16, 2021, a Houthi attack on an Arab coalition position in the Harad District of Yemen’s Hajjah province killed 14 Sudanese soldiers.
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Security, intelligence, police and Basij forces ... will not hesitate in dealing firmly and powerfully with those who threaten the social security and order ... including rioters, armed thugs, and terrorists working at the behest of [Iran’s] enemies, and will show them no mercy.
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On December 14, 2021, Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan (TTP) gunmen on motorcycles attacked a police patrol in the Pir Wadhai area of the Rawalpindi district, where Pakistan’s army headquarters is located. One person was killed and two others were wounded
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