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Israeli soldiers are seen next to the border fence on the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border, as Palestinians protest on the Gaza side of the border, Israel April 5, 2018.. (photo credit: AMIR COHEN/REUTERS) On May 18, thousands of Palestinians protested near the separation fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip in what was called “the Friday of loyalty to the martyrs and the wounded,” according to the Lebanese al-Mayadeen TV. Palestinian sources said that smaller protests against the Israeli authorities were held in the city of Jerusalem, the Western Bank and even in the northern city of Haifa. As usual, the Israeli Army responded to protestors along the separation fence by targeting them with tear gas and rubber bullets. Israeli army snipers also fired at several Palestinian protestors, according to Palestinian activists. Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesman for the Palestinian Health Ministry, announced that 56 protestors had been injured by sniper fire or tear gas during the...

Taliban fighters during “Operation al-Khandagh” On May 18, Taliban fighters attacked and captured a key base of the Afghan Army in the Gograk area of the Tarinkot district, the capital of the central province of Urozgan, according to the Taliban news agency Voice of Jihad. The source claimed that Taliban fighters had killed eleven Afghan soldiers and had destroyed an armored vehicle of the Afghan Army during their attack on the base. The Voice of Jihad also reported that the Taliban had captured an Afghan Police station and two centers of the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) after a limited attack in the district of Khas Urozgan in Urozgan province. An Afghan official told KPVI News TV that only two Afghan policemen had been killed during the clashes in Urozgan province. The source didn’t provide any details about the Taliban loses. The Taliban said that the two attacks in the districts of Tarinkot and Khas Urozgan had been a part of its spring offensive, coden...