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Extra! New Strategy Against Boko Haram In Nigeria

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Vanguard, March 09, 2015

Niger and Chad launched major joint ground and air strikes against Boko Haram in Nigeria Sunday, one day after the militants formally pledged allegiance to ISIS and killed at least 50 in Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria.

The joint military operation represents a new regional push to end the terrorist group's six-year insurgency.

Nigerian daily Vanguard features a front-page photo of victims receiving treatment after Saturday's four bomb blasts — the worst attacks in the country since Boko Haram members tried to seize the town earlier this year.

ABOUT THE SOURCE: Vanguardis a daily newspaper based in Lagos, Nigeria. It was founded in 1983.

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Russia Unleashes Powerful New "Hybrid" Missile In Latest Air Attacks On Ukraine

As Moscow launches the heaviest bombardment of Ukraine in months, evidence suggests that it may have started using a new hybrid missile that would be able to evade some high-tech Western air defense systems.

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An earlier design of Russia's guided GROM missile

Nikolai Novichkov/TASS via ZUMA
Cameron Manley

Russia carried out its largest missile attack in weeks on Ukraine on Thursday, targeting energy facilities in what officials say is part of the first new air campaign against the Ukrainian power grid since last winter. Power cuts were reported in five Ukrainian regions, along with multiple civilian deaths.

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But beyond the significance of the casualties and targets, experts are also pointing to the weapons employed. An attack in Kupyansk, in Ukraine's Kharkhiv region on Tuesday suggests that Russia has begun using a new missile system that exhibits formidable destructive potential and the ability to bypass Western air defense systems.

The Sept. 19 attack killed eight people. Oleg Sinegubov, the head of the local administration, provided a sobering account of the incident: “Two of the dead were volunteers who helped with evacuation efforts,” he said. “The occupiers cynically struck with the new Grom-E1 missile.”

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