Asia Pacific – Page 478 – The Defense Post

May- 2019 -

15 May

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ISIS announces new India and Pakistan provinces, casually breaking up Khorasan

Islamic State casually announced the creation of Pakistan and al-Hind provinces while claiming attacks in both countries, possibly restructuring Khorasan

13 May

Staff Writer With AFP

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Four Pakistan police officers killed in Quetta bombing

Four police were killed and nine people wounded when militants detonated a bomb hidden under a motorbike in the southwestern Pakistan city of Quetta

13 May

Staff Writer With AFP

Turkey begins large-scale naval exercise Denizkurdu in 3 seas

Turkey's navy launched large-scale Denizkurdu exercises at a time of rising tensions over its plans to explore for gas off the Cyprus coast

13 May

Staff Writer With AFP

Malaysia police arrest 4 linked to ISIS bomb plot

Malaysian police said they have arrested four militants linked to ISIS who were in possession of explosives and planned to attack non-Muslim places of worship

12 May

Staff Writer With AFP

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Pakistan: 5 killed in Gwadar hotel attack claimed by Baloch Liberation Army

Five people including a soldier were killed after gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in the southwestern Pakistan port city of Gwadar, the military said

11 May

Zaver Pearl-Continental Hotel, Gwadar, Balochistan, Pakistan

Staff Writer With AFP

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Pakistan: Gunmen storm luxury hotel in Gwadar, Balochistan

At least three gunmen stormed the five-star Pearl Continental Hotel in the port city of Gwadar in southwestern Pakistan's Balochistan province

9 May

Staff Writer With AFP

North Korea fires missiles in second launch in days

North Korea welcomed a US envoy's visit to Seoul by firing two missiles, the South's military said, in Pyongyang's second launch in less than a week

9 May

Staff Writer With AFP

Death toll in Taliban attack targeting Afghanistan aid workers in Kabul rises to 9

The death toll from the Taliban attack in Kabul has risen to nine, including five members of the Afghan security forces, a guard at Counterpoint and three civilians

8 May