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Seven North Koreans from three families overpowered border guards and seized their weapons in a dramatic escape across the Tumen River to China on April 15, multiple sources inside the North told RFA’s Korean Service. The defectors were from a small village in Musan County, North Hamgyong Province near the Chinese border and their escape […]

By Anna Fifield April 21 at 12:23 PM TOKYO — If the United States were to strike North Korea, Kim Jong Un’s regime would retaliate by unleashing its conventional weaponry lined up on the demilitarized zone that has separated the two Koreas for about seven decades. And that conventional weaponry is reliable, unlike North Korea’s missiles, […]

Provinces, SANA- Army and Armed Forces units carried out intensive strikes against gatherings and supply lines for Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization in Daraa al-Balad area and al-Mahatta neighborhood. A military source told SANA that the army units carried out on Thursday special operations against centers and movements for Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in the neighborhoods of […]

The administration of US President Donald Trump has prepared charges against Julian Assange, the founder of the global whistleblowing service WikiLeaks in an attempt to arrest him, sources say. US officials familiar with the issue told CNN on Thursday that the Justice Department’s investigation of Assange and WikiLeaks goes back to 2010, but prosecutors have […]

Fears of a pre-emptive strike from the U.S. are high in the region Putin sent troops, along with military equipment to Russia’s 11 mile border with North Korea China earlier sent 150,000 soldiers to its own frontier with North Korea MOSCOW, Russia – As tensions on the Korean Peninsula intensify, now Russia’s joining the game […]

The US cruise missile strike on Syrian airbase indicated that the United States has once again jeopardised the already shaky security in the world. Can Donald Trump strike North Korea next? Many politicians and analysts believe that this can be possible. Pravda.Ru talked about it in an interview with chairman of the Federation Council Committee […]

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops have freed al-Nasr district in western Mosul, Nineveh Operations declared. In a statement on Thursday, Lt. Gen. Abdul-Amir Yarallah said “The army’s Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) liberated al-Nasr district in the western side of Mosul before raising the Iraqi flag on its buildings.” Yarallah indicated inflicting losses in lives and property on […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Thursday he will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on May 16-17 in the U.S. Speaking to ANews channel, Erdoğan said the meeting will lay the foundation of a strong cooperation between Turkey and the U.S. He said that he believes that Trump will do what Obama failed to […]

Zeinab’s English teacher Abdiweli Mohammed Hersi teaches children at the school near a camp for internally displaced people from drought hit areas in Dollow, Somalia, April 3, 2017. Somalia’s al-Shabab militants are threatening to punish parents who send their children to Western-style schools and universities. In a 26-minute audio recording aired by Radio Andalus, al-Shabab’s […]