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   More than 46,000 people who fled Iraq’s Mosul as fighting raged have returned to the eastern part of the city over the past two weeks in an attempt to restart their lives. US-backed Iraqi government forces say they have now taken a quarter of Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group, though […]

Somalia government has announced that it will suspend flights to Mogadishu next Wednesday when the new president will be sworn in. The Transport and Civil Aviation ministry, in a statement on Wednesday, said commercial flights will not be allowed to and from Aden Adde International Airport on February 22, the inauguration day. “The only exception […]

US President Donald Trump (R) greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after a joint news conference at the White House in Washington, US, Feb 15, 2017 (Photo: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque) “The United States will encourage a peace and really a great peace deal,” Trump said during a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We […]

An United Arab Emirates navy ship docks at a naval base in Fujairah on the east coast of the country (File Photo: AFP/WAM) Somalia’s breakaway northern territory of Somaliland has said the UAE can establish a military base in its territory. The UAE government in January submitted a formal application seeking permission from the Somaliland […]

Mogadishu, 16 February 2017 – Somalia is destined for a brighter future following the successful conclusion of the 2016 electoral process, the Special Representative of the African Union Commission Chairperson (SRCC) for Somalia Ambassador Francisco Madeira has said. Ambassador Madeira said he witnessed the exercise in various voting centres, in different parts of the country, […]

  A handout picture released on February 15, 2017 by Norfolk museums service shows curators posing by a giant Tricolour flag at St Andrew’s Hall in Norwich in October 2016. (AFP) French flag the size of a tennis court, captured by the British in 1800, will be unfurled at a British castle this year in […]

Vague allegations and scant details from anonymous sources complicate verification of serious claims. Russian ships in the Caspian Sea firing Kalibr missiles at targets in Syria. Sea-launched missiles are not prohibited by INF. Russian Ministry of Defense Yuri Smityuk / TASS Russia has allegedly deployed a new weapons system that American officials believe violates a […]

Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel stand guard near the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle at Sriharikota, in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. (AP File Photo) India has successfully put a record 104 satellites from a single rocket into orbit on Wednesday in the latest triumph for its famously frugal space program. Celebrations erupted […]

Homs, SANA- Army units established full control over Hayyan gas factory in the eastern countryside of Homs province after targeting ISIS terrorist organization. A military source told SANA Tuesday that the army units in cooperation with the supporting forces carried out, during the past few hours, a wide-scale military operation and established full control over Hayyan gas field after eliminating the latest […]

FILE – President Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo stands to salute troops during a street parade to celebrate independence day for the breakaway Somaliland nation from Somalia in the capital, Hargeysa, Officials in Somalia and breakaway Somaliland took bribes in exchange for authorizing a United Arab Emirates military base in the port city of Berbera, according to […]