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At least nine people killed in al-Shabab attack on Wadajir district, government official says. At least nine people have been killed by a car bomb attack in the Somali capital Mogadishu, a government official said. “We heard a huge explosion in Wadajir district, there are some casualties,” Abifutah Omar Halane, the spokesman for Mogadishu’s mayor, […]

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has suspended flights over Syria after Russia said it halted sky incident prevention interactions with the US as of June 19, due to the coalition’s downing of a Damascus warplane.  “As a precautionary measure, Australian Defence Force (ADF) strike operations into Syria have temporarily ceased,” Australia’s FILE PHOTO: A […]

Dubai: The Filipina domestic worker sentenced to death in Al Ain for killing her employer has been saved from death row, a Philippine envoy said. Jennifer Dalquez, 30, a domestic worker, was given the death penalty by the Al Ain Court of First Instance in May 2015 after she was found guilty of killing her […]

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) launched six missiles at Daesh’s headquarters in eastern Syria in response to terror attacks in Tehran which left 18 dead and more than 50 injured earlier this month. The IRGC announced on Sunday that six medium-range ground-to-ground missiles were fired from Iran’s western provinces of Kermanshah and Kurdestan into […]

Landmine blast in war-torn Iraqi city kills Kurdish reporter Bakhtiyar Addad and French journalist Stephan Villeneuve. A landmine blast in the Iraqi city of Mosul has killed one Kurdish and one French journalist, as Iraq’s forces push deeper into the last remaining areas held by ISIL fighters. Smoke billows from the positions of ISIL fighters […]

Washington: US President Donald Trump has denounced the death of Otto Warmbier, the student who spent more than a year imprisoned in North Korea, as the consequence of mistreatment by a “brutal regime”. “At least he got home to his parents,” Mr Trump said on Monday during an event with technology chief executives at the White […]

Italian police have arrested a 29-year-old asylum seeker on terror-related charges, the interior ministry said on Monday morning. “The man is believed guilty of criminal association with the aim of international terrorism and incitement to crime,” the ministry said in a statement. File photo of police on guard at a security checkpoint: Andreas Solaro/AFP Police […]

Provinces , SANA-A military source announced Monday that units of the army established control over al-Rasafah and more than 20 towns and farms in Raqqa southern countryside after eliminating hundreds of ISIS terroristhere. The source added in a statement to SANA that units of the army, in cooperation with the backup forces, established control over […]

The American student who was released last week after being held in captivity for more than 15 months in North Korea has died, his family says. Otto Warmbier, 22, returned to the US last Tuesday, but it emerged he had been in a coma for a year. North Korea said botulism led to the coma, […]

The name of the mosque, previously known as “Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Mosque,” was changed by order of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed al-Nahyan to “consolidate bonds of humanity between followers of different religions”. UAE’s Minister of State for Tolerance Sheikha Lubna al-Qasimi said the move reflected the Crown Prince’s “pure humanity […]