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Haider al-Abadi says town and the entire province of Nineveh ‘liberated’ from armed group. The government offensive on Tal Afar began on August 20 [Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters] Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has declared victory over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) armed group in the northern city of Tal Afar […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un © KCNA / Reuters  The media has presented the situation as North Korea threatening the US and Trump firing back and threatening to go to war with them. We’ve lost the reality in the background of this; a conflict is not viable, says investigative journalist Gareth Porter. President Trump […]

Iraqi fighter jet file photo. Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi army warplanes killed 94 Islamic State militants in Anbar on Wednesday, including a senior leader close to the group’s supreme commander, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, military media reported. The War Media Cell said that the air force, using intelligence services information, bombarded six IS locations in the town […]

Refugee flow gathers pace amid renewed fighting as the international community expresses concern for civilian safety. At least 18,500 Rohingya Muslims, many sick and some with bullet wounds, have fled into Bangladesh over the past six days amid renewed fighting in western Myanmar. The figures from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Wednesday came amid increasing concerns […]

Sigmar Gabriel. Photo: DPA German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has supported Social Democrat (SPD) leader Martin Schulz’s pledge that he will push for the removal of US nuclear warheads from Germany if elected Chancellor. “Of course I am convinced that we need to finally start talking about demilitarization again,” Gabriel said at the end of […]

The Korea Central News Agency on Wednesday showed North Korean leader Kim Jong-un watching the launch of a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan the previous day. / Yonhap North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s eldest child ― whose gender has been unknown to the South since his birth in 2010 ― has been confirmed to […]

Erbil (IraqiNews.com) The general command of the Kurdish Peshmerga said 130 Islamic State militants were killed after fleeing Tal Afar town toward Syria. In a statement on Tuesday, the command said “after the militants were defeated in Tal Afar and Aiyadhiya, they attempted fleeing toward Syria.” “After fierce battles over the past 72 hours, 130 […]

© AiirSource Military / YouTube Washington will violate its commitment to the Non-Proliferation Treaty if it deploys the new B61-12 nuclear bombs to NATO allies in Europe, the Russian Foreign Ministry has warned. The statement comes after the recent second test of the weapon. “The most recent variations of the B61-12 bombs are also designed […]

An Air Self-Defense Force member stands guard as the ASDF demonstrates the training to utilize the PAC-3 surface to air interceptors at the U.S. Yokota Air Base in Fussa, on the outskirts of Tokyo, on Tuesday. | AP In an “unprecedented, grave and serious” threat, nuclear-armed North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile over Hokkaido on […]

  Japan’s “J-alert” delivered ominous messages warning people to take cover after North Korea fired a missile over the north of the country  Photo: AFP Millions of Japanese awoke to ominous text messages Tuesday warning them to take cover as a North Korean missile flew overhead, with one train operator bluntly explaining its halted service as “Reason: […]