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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 September 7, 2020, an explosives-laden pickup truck exploded at a military outpost in the Jana Abdalle area of southern Somalia’s Lower Juba region, killing three Somali military officers and injuring two others. Al-Shabaab is suspected of responsibility
Our dear people, if you exert your efforts, all the settlements of the West Bank can be evacuated by the end of this year, just like the settlements of the Gaza Strip were evacuated.
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On September 3, 2019, Yemen-based Houthi rebels launched multiple drone attacks on King Khalid Air Base in the southwest of Saudi Arabia. Earlier in the day, Houthis fired several ballistic missiles towards Najran airport in the southwest of the kingdom. No casualties were reported.
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On September 1, 2020, Boko Haram fighters raided a village housing approximately 18,000 internally displaced people in northern Cameroon, near the Nigerian border. During the attack, a suicide bomber killed seven civilians and injured 14 others.
We need to prevent the enemy from starting its planned drilling at the Karish gas field… When they talk about war and make war threats, the enemy leaders know that Israel has much more to lose than Lebanon in any such war... I can even promise that if they opt for such an act of stupidity, the consequences will not be just of strategic scope for this plundering, temporary entity. The consequences will affect its very existence.
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On August 31, 2018, a 19-year-old man from Afghanistan stabbed and injured two American tourists in Amsterdam Centraal Station. Dutch authorities accused him of having a “terrorist motive.” The assailant had a German residency permit and had applied for asylum, but was rejected by German authorities.
We will protect the sacred city to which the Prophet Mohammed made his night journey and from which he ascended to heaven, with everything we have. We will fight to the last Palestinian soldiers, last lion cub, and last child. We will never raise the white flag. Even if the Arabs, the Muslims, and the entire world desert us, we will fight for that city, because in this battle, we have a profitable transaction with Allah.
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On August 27, 2021, the Taliban dragged singer Fawad Andarabi from his home in Andarab Valley, north of Kabul, and shot him in the head. The execution took place after the Taliban outlawed music and women’s voices on television and radio in Kandahar, and labeled Andarabi’s music “un-Islamic.”
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On August 26, 2021, an ISIS-K suicide bomber detonated outside Abbey Gate at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. The attack, which occurred amid the withdrawal of U.S. forces and a mass evacuation, killed 183 people and wounded 200.
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