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Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jan 23, 2018
U.S. aid chief pays surprise visit to Syria's war-ravaged Raqqa on stabilization push
The U.S. government's aid chief, Mark Green, made an unannounced visit to Raqqa in Syria on Monday, the most senior U.S. civilian official from the Trump administration to visit the war-struck northern city months after it was retaken from Islamic State.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jan 1, 2018
Amid tight security, hundreds of couples ring in new year at mass Jakarta wedding
Hundreds of Indonesian couples celebrated New Year's Eve on Sunday night by tying the knot in a mass wedding in Jakarta.
BUSINESS
Dec 27, 2017
Attackers blow up Libyan crude pipeline, cutting output by 90,000 barrels per day and sending prices up
Armed men blew up a Libyan pipeline pumping crude oil to Es Sider port on Tuesday, reducing the North African country's output by around 90,000 barrels a day, military and oil sources said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 26, 2017
The top overseas news stories of 2017
The Japan Times newsroom selected these international news stories as the most important of 2017.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 25, 2017
Islamic State claims blast at Afghan intelligence agency in Kabul
Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a compound of Afghanistan's national intelligence agency in Kabul on Monday, that killed at least five people and wounded two.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 22, 2017
Traumatized Yazidi sisters reunite three years after being captured, sold and enslaved by Islamic State
When Rosa, now 14, asked her Islamic State captors about her younger sisters, Bushra, 12, and Suhayla, 7, she was told they had been killed for misbehaving.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 21, 2017
German police nab alleged Islamic State militant in ice rink truck attack plot
German police arrested a 29-year-old man they said was an active member of Islamic State who was plotting a truck attack on an ice rink.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 15, 2017
Rising worries in U.S. over 'self-made' terrorists as Islamic State weakens abroad but still inspires attacks
The online video's message was clear: Supporters of Islamic State who could not travel overseas to join the militant group should carry out attacks wherever they were in the United States or Europe.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 12, 2017
Times Square subway bomber claims ties to Islamic State but officials say he's solo player
A Brooklyn man wearing a pipe bomb attached with Velcro and zip ties set off an explosive in the Times Square subway station Monday morning, injuring himself and three others, sending ambulances racing and commuters fleeing as Christmas shoppers poured into New York City. He later said he is a follower...
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 11, 2017
Iraq forces stage victory parade to mark defeat of Islamic State
An Iraqi military parade in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone celebrated final victory over Islamic State on Sunday, with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi looking on as troops marched in formation, their bodies spelling "victory day" in Arabic.
WORLD
Nov 28, 2017
U.S. military says it conducted airstrike against Islamic State in Somalia, killing one
The U.S. military said on Monday it had carried out an airstrike against Islamic State militants in northeast Somalia, killing one person.
EDITORIALS
Nov 27, 2017
Putin's Middle East power play
The defeat of Islamic State could foreshadow a new order not only in the Middle East but elsewhere in the world as well.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 25, 2017
Pentagon likely to increase official count of U.S. troops in Syria from 500 to 2,000
The Pentagon, acknowledging that an accounting system for troops has underreported the size of the forces on the ground, is likely to announce that there are about 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria, two U.S. officials said on Friday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 24, 2017
Cleared from population centers, Iraq begins campaign to 'purify' desert near Syria of Islamic State fighters
Iraqi forces launched an operation on Thursday to clear the desert bordering Syria of Islamic State fighters in a final push to rid Iraq of the militant group, the military said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 21, 2017
Russia's Putin hosts Syria's Assad
Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Syrian leader Bashar Assad to talk about the need to move from military operations to the search for a political solution to Syria's conflict, the Kremlin said Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 17, 2017
Islamic State takes credit as suicide bomber kills at least nine near Kabul political meeting
A suicide bomb attack in the Afghan capital near a meeting of supporters of an influential regional leader on Thursday killed at least nine people and wounded many, the interior ministry said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 9, 2017
Syrian army and allies begin assault on last Islamic State stronghold as 'caliphate' looks to fall
Syria's army and its allies began an assault on the largest remaining stronghold of Islamic State in Syria and Iraq on Wednesday, Hezbollah-controlled media said, signaling the imminent fall of the militant group's self-proclaimed caliphate.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 6, 2017
Twin suicide bombers kill at least five at Shiite mosque in Kirkuk
Two suicide bombers killed at least five people and wounded more than 20 in an attack on a Shiite mosque in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Sunday, police and medical sources said.
WORLD
Nov 4, 2017
U.S. carries out first airstrikes against Islamic State in Somalia
The United States carried out its first airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Somalia and killed "several terrorists," the U.S. military said Friday.

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