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September 29, 2015
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2015-09-29
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)
At least four people are killed in a bombing attack on
Baghdad
.
(Euronews)
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Battle of Kunduz
Afghan National Security Forces
start efforts to recapture the city of
Kunduz
.
(CNN)
,
(The News Hub)
The
U.S. Air Force
launches air-strikes on
Taliban
forces within
Kunduz
.
(
The Washington Post
)
Turkey–PKK conflict
2015 PKK rebellion
Two
police officers
are gunned down by suspected
PKK
militants on the streets of
Adana
, southern Turkey.
(Middle East Eye)
Gaza–Israel conflict
At least one rocket is intercepted over
Ashdod
by
Israel
's
Iron Dome
missile defense system, and is believed to have come from the
Gaza Strip
.
(Haaretz)
2015 Burkinabé coup d'état
After a tense standoff,
Burkina Faso's
military crushed the
elite presidential guard
and seized the coup's abandoned headquarters. The former head of the guard,
Gen. Gilbert Diendéré
, had called on his men to lay down their weapons to avoid a bloodbath. Diendéré told
Agence France-Presse
(AFP) he feared “many deaths and injuries” in the operation. It is unclear whether there are casualties.
(
The New York Times
)
(BBC)
(
The Guardian
)
Disasters and accidents
2015 Pacific typhoon season
Typhoon Dujuan
hits mainland
China
in
Fujian
province after hitting
Taiwan
, where it caused two deaths and injured 300.
(AP via ABC News)
International relations
Amnesty International
designates
Cuban
graffiti artist
Danilo Maldonado Machado
as a
prisoner of conscience
.
(Reuters)
Law and crime
All 500 of the prisoners escape from the Ngaraba jail in
Bangui
, the capital of the
Central African Republic
.
(Reuters)
,
(
The Guardian
)
Science and technology
Researchers discover a
biofluorescent
hawksbill sea turtle, glowing bright red and green, near the
Solomon Islands
in the
South Pacific Ocean
. This is the first time scientists have found biofluorescence in a reptile
in the wild
. The
hawksbill sea turtle
is an
endangered
species.
(Live Science)
(CNN)
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