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Eight Indian police officials dead, 20 injured in Kashmir militant attack

Reuters Jun 26, 2016

SRINAGAR: Militants killed eight Indian police officials and injured 20 when they attacked a security convoy in northern Jammu & Kashmir state on Saturday, a police spokesman said, in an attack claimed by Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba…

Ban on Israeli Islamist group raises risk of Arab minority backlash

Reuters Nov 17, 2015

JERUSALEM: In outlawing its most strident Islamist group, Israel risks angering its largely quiescent Arab citizens as it confronts a wave of Palestinian violence powered by religious and political tensions.

Somali presidential compound attacked, president safe

Zohaib Kazmi Jul 9, 2014

Up to five members of the al Shabaab Islamist group, which claimed responsibility, were killed, Interior Minister Abdullahi Godah Barre told Reuters. Three militants were confirmed dead, and one or two more were believed to have died in the…