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Supporters of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi damage a police building in Cairo’s Ain Shams district, Egypt, on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014.

CAIRO — Egypt’s military spokesman says airstrikes in the northern Sinai Peninsula have killed 16 militants with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, the ousted president’s Islamist group.

Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said on Saturday the airstrikes targeted hideouts of “terrorist, extremely dangerous takfiri” militants late Friday in the eastern border town of Sheikh Zuweyid. Takfiri is an Arabic term referring to Islamic radicals.

He described the targeted militants as affiliated with the “terrorist” Brotherhood group.

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Activists say ISIS top commander killed in Syria

A commander and military mastermind for the hardline Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) rebel group was killed on Saturday after clashes with the al-Qaeda affliated al-Nusra Front in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour, Al Arabiya News Channel reported activists as saying.

The Libyan commander known as Abu Dajana is ISIS’s chief in Deir al-Zour.

Abu Dajana’s killing comes after Al-Nusra Front and rebel brigades, including the powerful Ahrar al-Sham, launched a new offensive against their former ally ISIS in the eastern province.

Al-Nusra Front and other Islamist rebel allies have reclaimed control of factories and grain mills in Dier al-Zour, activists said.

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Libya’s former prosecutor general shot dead

Abdelaziz al-Hasadi killed while visiting relatives in his home town of Derna, says justice minister.

Libya’s former prosecutor general has been shot dead by unknown attackers in the eastern city of Derna, the justice minister said, the latest in a series of assassinations that have plagued the country.

Abdelaziz al-Hasadi was killed on Saturday while visiting relatives in his home town of Derna, the AFP news agency reported, citing the justice minister, Salah al-Marghani.

Hasadi, who resigned from the post in March 2013, was the first prosecutor general appointed after Muammar Gaddafi was toppled and killed in the 2011 uprising.

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Nine killed in clash near Dera Bugti

ERA BUGTI: Nine people were killed in an armed clash between two groups near Dera Bugti, Geo News reported on Sunday.

According to Sarfraz Bugti, Home Minister Balochistan it was an act of terrorism. The exchange of fire took place between terrorists and local people. He said two terrorists were also killed in the firing.

Sarfaraz Bugti told Geo News that armed men attacked a house near RD-238 as a result six people including women and children were killed.

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Campaign worker killed in Afghanistan, Taliban blamed

Kabul: An election campaign worker was kidnapped and killed by unidentified armed men

in Afghanistan’s Saripul province Friday, police said Saturday, blaming the Taliban for the murder.

“The body of Hajji Yasin, who had campaigned for presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah, was found from a road Friday night,” Xinhua quoted police chief Noor Habib Gulbahari as saying.

Gulbahari blamed the Taliban for the murder.

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Yemeni tribesmen attack oil pipeline repair crew, eight killed

(Reuters) – At least eight people were killed when armed tribesman launched an attack on Friday to stop maintenance crews repairing an oil pipeline blown up last month in southeast Yemen, tribal sources said.

Six soldiers guarding the crews and two tribesmen were killed in the assault, which succeeded in halting work on the line linking Yemen’s Masila oilfields to the al-Dabbah export facility on the Arabian Sea, said witnesses.

The pipeline, with a capacity of 120,000 barrels per day, was blown up twice in two days by unidentified assailants, disrupting an important source of revenue for the impoverished state.

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