Thursday, August 20

Topic: security

Royal Thai Army soldiers
World
Thursday, 7/23, 07:33 AM

Five Soldiers Killed in Attack on Checkpoint in Southern Thailand

  • Around 10 attackers stormed a security checkpoint in Thailand's southern Narathiwat province, killing five paramilitary soldiers and wounding six civilians.
  • It is one of the deadliest recent attacks in a separatist conflict that has killed more than 7,000 people since 2004.
A panorama of Damascus, Syria (file photograph)
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Bomb at a Damascus cafe kills at least six, testing Syria's fragile transition

  • An explosive device tore through a cafe in central Damascus on Thursday afternoon, killing at least six people and wounding more than 20, according to Syria's Health Ministry.
  • No one immediately claimed responsibility for an attack that underscores the precarious security facing the country's post-Assad transitional government.

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