CFR: Global Conflict This Week — Ukraine Joins NATO Air Exercises

• Global Conflict This Week: Ukraine Joins NATO Air Exercises
  by Center for Preventive Action, https://www.cfr.org/
  Developments in conflicts across the world that you might have missed this week.
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  Dozens Killed on Seventeenth Anniversary of the War in Afghanistan
  At least thirty-five Afghan security forces and nineteen civilians were killed on Sunday, the seventeenth anniversary of the start of the war in Afghanistan. Over the past week, Taliban attacks across thirteen provinces killed nearly one hundred Afghan security forces personnel and thirty-one civilians.
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  The Taliban also vowed to obstruct upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled for October 20. A suicide bomber targeted an election rally last week, and a parliamentary candidate was killed in an attack on Tuesday.
  More on the war in Afghanistan » 
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  Ukraine Joins NATO Air Exercises
  Ukraine, the United States, and seven North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member countries began the Clear Sky 2018 war games, a twelve-day series of air exercises involving seven hundred troops in western Ukraine.
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  On Tuesday, ammunition at an arms depot in northern Ukraine began exploding, resulting in widespread fires and the evacuation of more than twelve thousand people from the area. The Ukrainian government deployed aircraft on Wednesday to fight the still raging fires and said it is investigating “possible sabotage.”
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