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August 14, 2017

Pakistan: ISIS Suicide Bomb Attack Kills 15 in Quetta
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In Pakistan, ISIS militants have claimed responsibility for a suicide
bomb attack on a military truck that killed eight soldiers and at least
seven other people in the southwestern city of Quetta on Saturday. The
Pakistani military says the attack was targeting planning efforts for
Independence Day celebrations. Today and tomorrow mark the 70th
anniversary of India and Pakistan's independence from British
colonialism.


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