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11/22/2024 02:01:54 am

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Senior North Korean military officer Hyon Yong Chol (R, front) attends the 4th Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS) in Moscow in this April 16, 2015 file photo.

North Korea Executed A Top General, Speculations Arise

Hyon Yong Chol, the top general of North Korea, who recently gave a speech in the Moscow International Symposium last month, was reportedly executed with an antiaircraft gun, as hundreds of other generals and top ranking officials looked on, according to the New York Times.

IS forces in northern Syrian province of Raqqa

2,000 IS executions since June, rights group says

A human rights group estimates the number of people executed by the extremist group Islamic State since June, at 2,000 including some of its own fighters

Iranian Rape Victim Executed For Murder Despite Clemency Pleas

Convicted of murder by an Iranian court for killing a man who was raping her in self-defense, Reyhaneh Jabbari was executed by hanging Saturday morning at Tehran. With 600 executions in 2013, Iran was second only to China in that category.

Islamic State Militants

ISIS Delivers Another Threat To U.S. Hours After Mass Execution Of Syrian Soldiers

Hours after posting a footage of the mass execution of almost 300 Syrian soldiers in the desert, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) uploaded another video delivering its second threat to the U.S.

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