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The Afghan Taliban have announced the death of Jalaluddin Haqqani, the founder of the Jihadist Haqqani network. It's not clear when or where he died. Steve Jackson has this report. A Taliban statement said Jalaluddin Haqqani had died after several years of illness and described him as one of the great Jihadi personalities of his era. For Western countries, he was leader of a potent militant network within the Taliban, blamed for a string of high-profile terror attacks that destabilized Afghanistan. Jalaluddin Haqqani helped Osama Bin Laden establish Al Qaida training camps there in the 1990s and continued to exert influence after relinquishing direct control of the Haqqani network in 2001. American and Afghan claims that Pakistan was supporting the network have been a major source of friction with Islamabad.

President Trump has warned the Syria's leader Bashar al-Assad against launching an attack on the rebel stronghold of Idlib. Mr. Trump said Russia and Iran would be making what he called a grave humanitarian mistake if they aided their ally in such an assault. David Willis reports. The province of Idlib in northwestern Syria is the last major stronghold for rebels fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad. Hence, for the Syrian army and its allies on the ground, Russia and Iran, capturing Idlib has become a major priority and thousands of troops have already been deployed to the area with the aim of driving out the thirty thousand or so rebel fighters who are thought to be held up there. The United Nations has warned that an assault on Idlib could spark a humanitarian crisis, the likes of which even Syria has yet to see and President Trump is now backing that assessment.

The Highest Court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has barred the opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba from running in the presidential election due in December. More details from Louise Dewast. When Jean-Pierre Bemba was acquitted of war crimes earlier this summer, hundreds if not thousands of Congolese took to the streets to celebrate. Many hopes he would defeat President Joseph Kabila in long-delayed elections in December. But the Constitutional Court has now ruled that he's ineligible to run. He was convicted by the International Criminal Court of witness tampering, and according to Congolese law, that's equal to corruption.

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