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AT News KABUL: Some 76 roadside mines planted by Taliban militants defused and three car bombing attacks were thwarted by the Afghan security forces in southern Kandahar province in the past 24 hours, defense officials said on Sunday. Afghan security forces succeeded in discovering and neutralizing 76 IEDs, which were placed by Taliban on highways in Maiwand district of Kandahar province, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement. According to the statement, by discovering and defusing IEDs, Afghan security forces prevented many bloody incidents, which would harm civilians in the district. In addition to that eight Taliban insurgents were killed and four others were wounded during the military strings in the district, the statement added.
Saudi Press Agency reported quoted the Saudi-led coalition as saying on Saturday that it thwarted a recent attack fired by the Houthi militia on the Abha International Airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia.
actually rented a villa there where they prepared the attack. we're also learning that they made the bombs all of these plotters in a safe house and in an apartment right in the center of brussels, very near those european headquarters buildings and the police found a sewing machine used to stitch up the vests and transported to paris for the attacks. >> paul cruickshank. thank you. james langford of oklahoma a member of the intelligence and homeland security committees, senator, thanks for joining us. i want to get to the thw arted. intense situation in north korea, almost 1 million south korean troops along the dmz, nearly 30,000 u.s. soldiers in between. it's a very tense situation
the capital and during the new year secelebrations. because they are part of biker gang and had potential access to weapons and these individuals have been involved in robberies in the past, they felt they couldn't take any chances because they could get weapons easily. when they went in, they found that they didn't have weapons or explosives yet. but they had to move in as soon as they learn ed that there coud be a potential risk here in the capital. we're hearing it wasn't eminent in the sense that it was about to happen. that's why they didn't raise the alert level up to 4, the maximum level here in belgium, like they did several weeks ago a week after the paris attacks. but significant concern here in belgium as we approach the new year celebrations that somebody inspired by isis could try to do something to destroy everybody's holidays here. >> thwarted, thank good neness.