Senior U.S. and Pakistani military commanders held a secret meeting this week to discuss the growing Taliban and al Qaeda threat in Pakistan and Afghanistan, a senior U.S. military official said Thursday.

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The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said the underground tunnels between Gaza and Egypt are not used for smuggling weapons, according to a Hamas statement released on Thursday “The tunnels are only used to bring goods and the missing medicine,” said the statement, adding that Hamas manufactures its weapons in Gaza and gets the “heavy weapons” into Gaza through thesea. Hamas also said it is …

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