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Police and civilian cars cross the border outpost between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, east of the southern Saudi province of Najran in 2003 (AFP Photo/Khaled Fazaa
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Los Angeles County firefighters watch brush fires on Placenta Canyon Road in Santa Clarita, Calif., Sunday, July 24, 2016. Flames raced down a steep hillside “like a freight train,” leaving smoldering remains of homes and forcing thousands to flee the wildfire churning through tinder-dry canyons in Southern California, authorities said Sunday. (AP Photo/Matt Hartman)
Wildfire Threatens 20,000 Homes near Los Angeles
A California wildfire that has destroyed more than a dozen homes is forcing thousands of residents to flee as flames rage for a fourth day through drought-parched canyons and foothills north of Los Angeles, officials said on Monday. The so-called Sand Fire has charred...Caption:
GERMANY OUT – In this grab taken from video, police officers arrest a man close to a machete, front right, after an attack in Reutilingen, Germany, Sunday, July 24, 2016. A Syrian man killed a woman with a machete and wounded two others Sunday outside a bus station in the southwestern German city of Reutlingen before being arrested. Police said there were no indications pointing to terrorism. (NONSTOP NEWS via AP)
ISIS Claims Responsibility for Attack in Germany
A Syrian man whose request for asylum had been rejected in Germany recorded a cellphone video of himself pledging allegiance to the ultra-hardline group ISIS before he tried to get into an outdoor concert with a bomb-loaded backpack. He was turned away and detonated...Caption:
People sitting on a car, leave Diffa, southeastern Niger, on June 15, 2016, following attacks by Boko Haram in the region. Boko Haram on June 9 attacked a military post in Bosso in Niger’s Diffa region, killing 26 soldiers including two from neighbouring Nigeria, in one of its deadliest attacks in Niger. Niger and Chad’s troops will engage “immediately” while Nigeria will launch an operation from the south of its territory and Cameroon will push forward from the east flank. The objective is to trap Boko Haram “in a pincer movement”, the defence minister said. / AFP
Regional Armies Struggle with Last Push in Campaign against Boko Haram
Surrounded with dozens-strong security detail for protection, Niger’s Interior Minister Mohamed Bazoum addressed a crowd of refugees seated quietly on dusty, sun-baked flats. “You’ll all be able to go home soon. Boko Haram is nearly finished,”...Caption:
British Prime Minister Theresa May addresses a news conference following talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany July 20, 2016. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke