The mutilated bodies of Islamic State group fighters were still strewn on the ground of this northern Iraqi town on Wednesday. One was burned. Another's face was flattened by abuse.
Iraqi troops on the march toward Mosul moved into al-Hud a day earlier and declared it liberated. But they found residents had already risen up and killed many of the militants in the town themselves.
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The attack in the capital of the Georgian breakaway republic of Abkhazia was reported by Russian media on Monday morning. "A man blew himself up on the territory of the TV center. It was obviously clear that he had a bomb," Russian news agency RIA Novosti quoted Abkhazia's interior minister, Aslan Kobakhiya, as saying.
The Interior Ministry also reportedly announced that the improvised device contained an equivalent of 200 grams (7.05 ounces) of TNT. The blast took place in the Abkhaz capital Sukhumi, Russia's Interfax news agency reported, adding that "the corpse of a bearded man" was found at the scene, citing the region's emergency services ministry.
Authorities stopped short of calling the incident a terrorist attack, with the region's president, Raul Khajimba, telling Interfax that it was "too early to talk about an attempted terrorist attack." "Let's wait for the results of the investigation. We have not even managed to identify the man who blew himself up," Khajimba told Interfax.
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A gunman in an Afghan army uniform on Wednesday shot and killed at least one international soldier and wounded five at a base in the Afghan capital before being killed himself, an Afghan military official said.
The shooting took place at about 11 a.m., while the international troops were visiting a base in Kabul, said Dawlat Waziri, a defense ministry spokesman. A spokesman for the NATO-led coalition said officials were looking into the reports but could not confirm the incident.
The suspected attacker was killed when the international troops returned fire, Waziri said.
News source: Reuters
On Wednesday a right-wing extremist in a Bavarian town opened fire during a police raid on his home, which left four officers injured.
During a police raid in Georgensgmünd, Bavaria, a member of a right-wing extremist movement immediately opened fire and injured four police officers, two of them seriously.
The 49-year-old shooter is reportedly part of a "Reichsbürger" movement - people who do not recognize the Federal Republic of Germany as a legitimate state, and who tend to believe the true borders of Germany are those that existed prior to the Second World War.
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Turkish police on Wednesday fatally shot a suspected Islamic State group militant who was believed to be planning a suicide bomb attack in the capital. The man was killed in a raid on a ninth-floor apartment on the outskirts of Ankara after he ignored warnings to surrender and opened fire on police, Ankara Gov. Ercan Topaca said.
The state-run Anadolu Agency quoted Topaca as saying the man was believed to be planning a suicide attack in the city — either targeting large gatherings or to coincide with two national ceremonies in the coming weeks. Topaca said police seized explosive materials from the apartment.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu told reporters that the man was spotted scouting Turkey's old parliament building as well as the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk — the founder of the Turkish republic — where ceremonies are scheduled to take place.
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