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Urgent: U.S. says January anti-terrorist operation killed U.S., Italian hostages

Xinhua, April 23, 2015 Adjust font size:

The White House on Thursday confirmed that a U.S. counterterrorism operation in January killed two hostages, one American and one Italian, held by the extremist group al Qaida in the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Endi