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The U.S. military buildup along South America’s northern rim is, Washington insists, aimed at “narco-terrorists.”

But Al-Houthi distinguished himself by regrouping Hussein’s followers in caves around their northern Yemen stronghold of Sa’dah and leading guerilla warfare against the government’s more powerful forces.

On Sunday, an Israeli air strike killed a man in northern Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

On Sunday, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said that the suspects, who lived in the French capital's bleak northern suburbs, were believed to be small-time criminals and not members of organised crime groups.

Violence against Christians has escalated in northern Nigeria in the past decade, as violent Islamic extremists such as Boko Haram wage an insurgency against the country’s secular government and expand their influence in the region.