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August 5, 2016 (Friday)

2016 Assam attacks
- Gunmen open fire in a market in Assam, India, killing 13 people and injuring 18. (India Today)
Iraqi Civil War, ISIL involvement
- The United Nations reports that ISIL appears to have captured up to 3,000 fleeing Iraqi villagers from Hawija District headed to Kirkuk city. Militants reportedly executed 12 people. Earlier, the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights said ISIL is using people for human shields against attacks by Iraqi security forces. (NRT News) (NBC News)
War in Afghanistan
- At least 10 people are killed by a pair of explosions in the Tsamkani District in the eastern Afghan province of Paktia. Spokesman Naqib Ahmad Atal says the Taliban are to blame. (AP)

A Pakistani Mi-17 transport helicopter belonging to the Punjab government on route to Russia for repair, crashed on Thursday night in Logar Province, Afghanistan. The six people on board have been taken hostage by the Taliban. (The Express Tribune) (Pakistan Today)
- Army Chief General Raheel Sharif had called the U.S. Military Commander in Afghanistan, General John Nicolson, and asked him to help recover the crew. The Afghan government and Afghan Army have also been contacted for recovery of helicopter and crew.(Dunya News)

European migrant crisis
- Ventimiglian police commander Giorgio Marenco says the more than 100 migrants who crashed the Italian border town's police barriers and entered France remain, under French police surveillance, outside the French Riviera town of Menton. (Reuters)

A Swedish court orders the owner of the luxury cruise ship MV Ocean Gala that was due to house 1,800 asylum seekers before the Swedish Migration Agency pulled the plug to immediately leave its port. The local County administration says it intends to forcefully execute the ruling of the court if the vessel has not left the port by Monday morning. (Local)

British activists with the Black Lives Matter movement from America block the road to Heathrow Airport and to streets in Manchester, Birmingham, and Nottingham, marking the fifth anniversary of the deadly police shooting of Mark Duggan in north London. Ten protestors are arrested. (NBC News) (Reuters)

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 **The [[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees|United Nations]] reports that [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|ISIL]] appears to have captured up to 3,000 fleeing Iraqi villagers from [[Hawija District]] headed to [[Kirkuk]] city. Militants  reportedly executed 12 people. Earlier, the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights said ISIL is  using people for human shields against attacks by [[Iraqi security forces]]. [http://www.nrttv.com/EN/Details.aspx?Jimare=9303 (NRT News)] [http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/isis-may-be-holding-3-000-iraqi-civilians-human-shields-n623546 (NBC News)]
 *[[War in Afghanistan (2015–present)|War in Afghanistan]]
-**At least 10 people are killed from by a pair of explosions in the [[Tsamkani District]]  in the eastern [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] province of [[Paktia Province|Paktia]]. Spokesman Naqib Ahmad Atal says the [[Taliban]] are to blame. [http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ab0f00840bb9489d8b3df9f581b046fb/afghan-official-10-civilians-killed-roadside-bombs (AP)]
+**At least 10 people are killed by a pair of explosions in the [[Tsamkani District]]  in the eastern [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] province of [[Paktia Province|Paktia]]. Spokesman Naqib Ahmad Atal says the [[Taliban]] are to blame. [http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ab0f00840bb9489d8b3df9f581b046fb/afghan-official-10-civilians-killed-roadside-bombs (AP)]
 ;Disasters and accidents