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  IS attack in Syria kills 22 pro-regime fighters

  World | June 08, 2018 10:43 IST

  The 22 pro-regime combatants killed include nine Iranians and fighters belonging to pro-Iran Shiite militias, as well as two unidentified fighters

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  Bangladesh HC rejects petition challenging Islam as state religion

  World | September 07, 2015 14:25 IST

  Dhaka: Bangladesh's High Court today rejected a writ petition by a Hindu lawyer questioning constitutional acknowledgement of Islam as the state religion in the "secular" country. "The court summarily rejected the petition," Deputy Attorney General Khorshedul Alam

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  Islamic State blows up three Palmyra funerary towers

  World | September 04, 2015 15:49 IST

  Damascus: The Islamic State (IS) terror group has blown up three funerary towers at the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, an antiquities expert said on Friday.The three tombs are Jamblique, built in 83 A.D. and

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  UN chief welcomes lifting of Iraqi town siege

  World | September 03, 2014 7:03 IST

  United Nations: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday welcomed the end of militant siege on the northern Iraqi town of Amerli, saying it averted "a major humanitarian disaster".Ban welcomed the lifting of the siege on Amerli