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Lasers on planes to be tested by US military

The US military may test laser weapons on planes by 2014.

Baghdad bomb attacks leave 11 dead

Nearly 180 people have been killed this month since Sunni militant groups – including Al Qaeda’s local affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq – launched a series of bombing attacks on Shia Muslims

Hamas fires rockets into Israel after airstrikes kill six

The rocket fire from the al-Qassam Brigades – a rarity, given Hamas’ tacit truce with Israel – followed the deaths of two 17-year-old Palestinian teenagers shortly after midnight Tuesday in an Israeli strike on Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.

At least 15 killed in suicide attack on Shia funeral in Iraq

More than 130 people have been killed since Sunni militant groups – including Al Qaeda’s local affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq – launched a series of bombings on Shia Muslims in recent weeks.

At least eight dead in Quetta, Pakistan blast

Quetta suffers from attacks by Islamists, sectarian conflict between majority Sunni and minority Shi’ite Muslim groups, and an insurgency being waged by ethnic Baloch separatists who want greater autonomy.

At least 17 killed and dozens wounded in Iraq bomb attacks

Baghdad is currently hosting a major auction inviting international companies to explore oil and gas across Iraq.

At least 17 killed as army and militants clash in southern Yemen

Fighting broke out early Sunday as the army and aligned tribal fighters launched a two-pronged attack on the Islamist stronghold of Jaar in Abyan province, which has been under the control of the militants since last year.

Thousands take to the streets in northern Syrian city of Aleppo

Anti-regime activists had earlier called for Friday protests under the slogan “Heroes of Aleppo University,” in solidarity with some 15,000 students who demonstrated outside the gates of the university on Thursday as UN observers were visiting to oversee a largely ignored internationally-backed ceasefire.

Ethiopia troops seize key Somalia rebel town of El Bur

Al Shabaab still controls much of southern and central Somalia, but is under increasing pressure from Kenyan forces in the south and Ethiopian forces in the West.
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