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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 […]

Iran has sent five planes of food to Qatar, Iran’s national carrier told AFP on Sunday, days after Gulf countries cut off air and other transport links to the emirate. “So far five planes carrying perishable food items such as fruit and vegetables have been sent to Qatar, each carrying around 90 tonnes of cargo, […]

SEATTLE — Demonstrators around the country rallied to protest Islamic law, saying it is incompatible with Western democracy. But many of the rallies drew even more raucous counter-protests by people who called such fears unfounded. The demonstrations were held in more than two dozen U.S. cities, including Seattle, New York and Chicago. Counter-protestors stand behind […]

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi government troops began Sunday the invasion of western Mosul’s Old City district, the last Is bastion in the region, military media reported. The Defense Ministry’s War Media Cell said the army’s 9th division consummated the recapture of Zanjili district from the south, and invaded Bab Sinjar, one of the entrances of the […]

The half brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un was in possession of $120,000 when he was killed at a Kuala Lumpur airport in February, the Asahi Shimbun daily reported, adding that he met with an American suspected of connections with a U.S. intelligence agency four days before his death. Kim Jong Nam is […]