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Over 100 Killed in Battle for Afghan Town

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08/13/2018

08/13/2018

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Over 100 Killed in Battle for Afghan Town

Top News: A Taliban assault on the Ghazni, in eastern Afghanistan, killed about 100 Afghan security personnel and at least 20 civilians after four days of fierce fighting for control of the strategically important provincial capital.

The Taliban first stormed the city on Friday, in a major show of force for the militant group. Afghanistan responded by sending 1,000 additional troops to reinforce to the city. The U.S. military has also sent military advisors to the city to aid Afghan forces.

The U.S. forces in Afghanistan dismissed the Taliban attack as a “failed attempt.”

“Tactically, operationally and strategically, the Taliban achieved nothing with this failed attack except another eye-catching, but inconsequential headline,” Lt. Col. Martin O’Donnell, a spokesman for U.S. Forces Afghanistan, told CNN.

Romania: Tens of thousands of Romanians rallied against government corruption over the weekend, with protestors calling for the government to resign over efforts to weaken the judicial branch. More than 400 people were injured in clashes with police after the protests started on Friday.

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Africa

•  Suspected jihadis killed a poll-station chief in northern Mali during the country’s presidential runoff vote.

•  U.S. President Donald Trump approved new conditions on democratic transformation for Zimbabwe to meet before U.S. sanctions would be lifted.

•  An ethic Somali separatist group in Ethiopia’s Somali region unilaterally declared a cease-fire after the federal government removed them from a ban list.

Americas

•  Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said he would accept help from the FBI to investigate an alleged assassination plot.

•  Nearly 9,000 firefighters are battling wildfires across 256,000 acres of land in Washington and Oregon.

•  More than 500,000 Venezuelans have fled to Ecuador to escape economic strife and violence, according to the United Nations.

Asia

•  China rejected U.N. allegations that it had detained over 1 million Uighur Muslims in the western part of the country in internment camps.

•  Leaders from Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan signed a landmark deal on the status of the resource-rich Caspian Sea.

•  A plane crash in Indonesia on Sunday killed eight people, leaving a 12-year-old boy as the sole survivor.

Europe

•  Some ships in the Mediterranean have passed by migrants stranded at sea without helping them, aid groups say.

•  Fires on the Greek island of Evia forced the evacuation of two villages.

•  More than 300 people were injured after a platform collapsed at a music festival in Spain.

Middle East

•  An arms depot exploded in rebel-controlled territory in northern Syria on Sunday, killing at least 67 people and injuring 33.

•  Tens of thousands of Arab Israelis rallied in Tel Aviv over the weekend to protest a controversial new law declaring Israel a nation-state of exclusively Jews.

•  Egyptian authorities arrested a Coptic Christian monk after confessing to murdering an Egyptian bishop.

- By Robbie Gramer

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