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In the July 17 attack, Iranian ballistic missiles struck a housing area at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in northeastern Jordan where American troops had been sleeping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
DeMar was conducting fieldwork in northeastern Montana when an unusual rock caught his attention.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Skulls and bones belonging to the Naga people of northeastern India and Myanmar - formerly known as Burma - have been displayed at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford for more than a century.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The northeastern border region was once German territory.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
The Pequots’ homelands were the northeastern woodlands along the coast.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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