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Xinhua Middle East news summary at 2200 GMT, Feb. 27

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At least 15 extremists were killed and four others were injured on Friday in a security air raid launched by the Egyptian Armed Forces on their hideouts at a desert area south of Sheikh Zuweid in the restive North Sinai province, a security source told Xinhua. (Egypt-Attack)

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DAMASCUS -- The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) have succeeded to capture a contested Syrian town in the al-Hasaka province, after a week-long battle with the Islamic State (IS) militants, a monitoring group reported on Friday. (Syria-IS-Killing)

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KHARTOUM -- One hundred and forty-four members of China's peacekeeping infantry battalion of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS) arrived in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, on Friday morning. (S.Sudan-China-Peacekeeping)

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ISTANBUL -- Turkish police detained a man threating to detonate a suicide bomb in front of the U.S. consulate in Istanbul on Friday, local media said.

The police have been deployed to the Sariyer district where the U.S. consulate is located, the Dogan news agency reported, adding that Istanbul has been put on high alarm. (Turkey-Attack) Endit