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TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s official news agency is reporting that the country’s powerful Revolutionary Guard has broken up a militant group linked to a “foreign intelligence” agency and killed its members. The report Monday by IRNA did not identify the terrorist group, nor give any casualty figures. The report said …

KIEV, Ukraine – Amnesty International says it has evidence that Russian-backed separatists in east Ukraine executed several captured government soldiers in gross violation of international humanitarian law. Amnesty said in a statement Thursday that footage viewed by the group shows at least four Ukrainian soldiers now confirmed dead being interrogated …

HELSINKI – World military spending was largely unchanged in 2014 as lower spending in the United States and Western Europe was matched by increases elsewhere, prompted by conflicts in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa, an arms watchdog said Monday. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said total global …