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Taliban militants attacked an Afghan army post overnight on Friday, killing at least 18 soldiers, Afghanistan's defense ministry confirmed Saturday. "A large number of Taliban [jihadists] attacked an army outpost and we lost 18 soldiers and two were wounded," said Dawlat Waziri, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense. The Taliban, which has increased its violent attacks across the country, claimed responsibility. Diplomatic area targeted At least two people were killed and more than seven wounded when an "Islamic State" bomber detonated his explosives in Kabul's diplomatic area Saturday. Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish said the attack took place in the Shash Darak area of Kabul, near the NATO headquarters and not far from the US embassy. Meanwhile, an Afghan official said at least three security personnel were killed in a separate suicide bombing attack in southern Helmand province. A car bomber was shot early Saturday by Afghan army soldiers, Helmand provincial … [Read more...] about Multiple attacks in Afghanistan leave many dead

A woman has stabbed a man in the back in what police believe is a random, unprovoked attack in a waiting room at a busy inner Sydney hospital. The 45-year-old man was in the triage area of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital at Camperdown late on Tuesday night when he was stabbed by a woman. Police believe the woman smuggled the knife into the hospital in her pants, before plunging it into the man.   A man has been stabbed in the back in what police believe is a random attack inside a waiting room at a busy inner Sydney hospital 'It went through (the back) and came out the other end; straight through so she didn't mess around,' witness Andrew Webster told 9 News. 'He didn't know it was coming. She never said a word but as soon as she spotted him, bang.'  The man had been brought in from a hospital in Wagga Wagga for unrelated treatment, while the woman had arrived by ambulance from a home in Concord. RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Man 'stabs to death his estranged … [Read more...] about ‘It went through and came out the other side’: Horror as a woman, 29, waiting for treatment in a hospital ‘stabs a patient, 45, in the back’ in a random attack

The far-right web forum 8chan, used to celebrate mass shootings and spread suspects' so-called “manifestos”, has been forced offline after losing its cyber-security protection.Cloudflare, a San Francisco-based firm that provides added security for websites to prevent cyber-attacks, said it would stop protecting 8chan at midnight Pacific Time (08:00 BST) on Monday. The 21-year-old suspect in this weekend’s shooting in El Paso, Texas, is understood to have used 8chan to spread his manifesto. Previously, the site was also used by the suspect in March’s shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, as well as the suspect in April's synagogue shooting in Poway, California. Losing Cloudflare’s protection has made 8chan vulnerable to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, whereby a website is bombarded with traffic that overwhelms its servers, rendering it inaccessible. A few minutes after the Cloudflare service was withdrawn, 8chan did indeed become … [Read more...] about 8chan far-right forum offline as Cloudflare cuts support

New Year's festivities in the Afghan capital of Kabul turned deadly on Wednesday, after a suicide bomber detonated himself near the city's main university, killing at least 26 people. Another 52 people were injured in the blast, according to Health Ministry officials. Several women and children were among the casualties.  Interior Ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi warned the death toll was likely to rise. Read more: Kabul residents in shock after wave of violence The "Islamic State" (IS) jihadi group claimed responsibility for the blast. Watch video 00:59 Share Bomb attacks shake Afghanistan Send Facebook Twitter google+ Whatsapp Tumblr linkedin stumble Digg reddit Newsvine Permalink https://p.dw.com/p/2tGaJ Wave of militant bomb attacks shakes Afghanistan Shiite worshippers targeted The explosion went off on a road leading towards the Shiite Kart-e Sakhi shrine, where locals had gathered to mark the Persian New Year, … [Read more...] about Kabul suicide bombing: Heavy casualties in New Year’s blast

Can state-sponsored assassination work as a strategy? And can it ever be justified? Governments don't admit to it, but Iranian nuclear scientists know it happens - and it's not easy to distinguish assassination from the US policy of "targeted killing".Seventy years ago, a team of British-trained assassins were preparing to strike. Their target was Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most feared men in the Third Reich, then ruling Czechoslovakia.Britain's recently formed Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the Czechoslovak exile movement based in London both needed to make a mark.The planning for Operation Anthropoid, as it was known, is detailed in formerly secret memos in the National Archives.They reveal how two Czechoslovak volunteers trained in Britain and then parachuted in."The two agents concerned have been trained in all methods of assassination known to us," reads one memo from January 1942. "They intend to carry out this operation whether or not there is any opportunity of … [Read more...] about Licence to kill: When governments choose to assassinate