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US-backed Syrian forces have advanced into opposite sides of ISIS’s so-called Syrian capital of Raqqa, the forces and a war monitor said on Saturday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a group of Kurdish and Arab militias supported by a US-led coalition, began to attack Raqqa on Tuesday after a months-long campaign to cut it off. […]

Brazil’s top electoral court has voted against removing President Michel Temer from office over allegations of illegal campaign financing during the 2014 presidential election, when he was Dilma Rousseff’s running mate for vice-president. The Superior Electoral Tribunal, known as the TSE, voted 4-3 against annulling the result of the election that saw Rousseff elected as […]

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi government forces recaptured on Saturday Zanjili district in western Mosul, leaving only one district in Islamic State’ grip before reaching its strategic stronghold in the Old City neighborhood. Federal Police chief Shaker Jawdat said in a statement that his forces went on clearing booby-traps from the district, adding they ran into a […]

US special forces are helping the Philippine military retake the southern city of Marawi from IS-linked militants, the Philippine army says. The forces are providing technical help and are not fighting, it said. President Rodrigo Duterte had earlier threatened to throw out US troops amid strained relations since taking office. Media captionAn air assault by […]

The Hamburg Senate guest house. Wikipedia Commons/Ajepbah US President Donald Trump reportedly struggled at first to find a place to stay on his first official visit to Germany. But the Hamburg city government has come to his rescue, German media report. Is it just that there wasn’t any space left in the inn? With 6,000 […]

Gun battle in military base in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region kills at least 70 soldiers. Heavily armed al-Shabab fighters have stormed a military base in Somalia’s semiautonomous state of Puntland, killing close to 70 people and wounding dozens more, officials say. The attack began with a blast at the remote Af-Urur camp, about 100km west of […]

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that there was “no choice” but to call out Qatar for its support to terrorism during a press conference in Romania, further urging the Gulf state to “immediately” stop funding terrorist groups. He urged Qatar and its neighbors to “do more” to fight terrorism. “I want to thank […]

AA Photo President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reaffirmed Turkey’s support for Qatar on Friday as he called for the current blockade imposed by Arab states to be completely lifted. Speaking at an Iftar (fast-breaking) dinner organized by the Justice and Development Party (AK Party)’s Istanbul branch, Erdoğan said the recent crisis in the Gulf region serves […]

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has censured the deadly terrorist attacks in Iraq’s central provinces of Babil and Karbala, expressing confidence that Takfiri terrorism would face a final defeat. “The heavy and consecutive defeats of Takfiri terrorists in Iraq and Syria have led to their ideological and organizational breakdown,” Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said. In a […]

US Secretary of State Tillerson said during a press conference on Friday that Washington will back Kuwait’s mediation efforts between Qatar and Gulf states but said the former must stop backing extremist groups in the region, Al Arabiya News Channel reported. Tillerson described Qatar as having a “history” in backing to terrorist groups, urging Doha […]