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Somali President, Mohammed Abdullah Farmajo, has been offered $80 million in exchange for his agreement to sever diplomatic relations with the State of Qatar, the New Khalij news outlet reported a prominent journalist has revealed. “After two hours of enticement, Farmajo rejected the tempting offer,” journalist Jaber Al-Harimi said. MImage of Somali President, Mohamed Abdullahi […]

A man accused of posting blasphemous content to Facebook has been sentenced to death by a court in Pakistan. Taimoor Raza was convicted after allegedly posting remarks about the Prophet Muhammad, his wives and companions within the site’s comments. Facebook has yet to comment on the death sentence(Reuters) The public prosecutor involved said he believed […]

Nearly 27 million internet users in Algeria will be deprived of mobile internet network this week as the government attempts to prevent further leaks and cheating in the upcoming baccalaureate exams which 761,700 pupils are expected to take. Last year saw the biggest leak of exam questions online on the second day of examinations. Thousands […]

Suspected al-Qaeda militants launched a car-bomb and gun attack on an army camp in southeastern Yemen early on Monday, leaving at least 10 militants and two soldiers dead, a military official and residents said. The assault near the town of Baddah in oil-producing Hadramout province came after a lull in attacks by the militant group. […]

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi government forces advanced further Monday in a neighborhood near the Old City in western Mosul as operations continue towards the Islamic State’s last bastion  in the city. Maj. Ali al-Yasseri, from the Federal Police service, told Shafaaq News that the Interior Ministry’s Rapid Response forces advanced at al-Boursa (stock market) neighborhood south […]

A Saudi officer has been killed while two others were injured after their patrol cars came across an IED bomb in Saudi Arabia’s eastern province of Qatif. Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry has identified the killed officer as Tariq Al-Allaqi, who was killed on Sunday night while with his patrol unit in the al-Masoura neighborhood of […]

Photo: AFP Initial results for the first round of France’s parliamentary elections on Sunday pointed to a mammoth majority for President Emmanuel Macron’s gleaming new Republique en Marche party on a day when the turn-out was only 50 percent. Macron’s party scored 32.2 to 32.9 percent in the first-round parliamentary vote, initial projections said, compared […]

The leader of Daesh terrorist organization Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has allegedly been killed in airstrikes, reports said Sunday. The reports claimed that Baghdad was killed in the terrorist group’s stronghold Raqqa. Daesh’s Aamaq propaganda agency has not confirmed the reports. Baghdad is on a wanted list with $25 million bounty on his head. Previous reports […]

N. Korea hinted it may test-fire an ICBM in the near future, state media says, adding that the missile will help Pyongyang tackle the US’ “hostile policy,” as Washington never “dared to go to war with a country that possesses nuclear weapons or ICBMs.” “The series of recent strategic weapons tests show that we are […]

The Pentagon said it had carried out an air strike on al Shabaab in Somalia on Sunday, and Somalia said its special forces had joined in the attack to destroy one of the extremist insurgent group’s main training and command posts. The office of President Mohamed Abdullahi said the base was located on Sakow, in […]