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Smoke rises over the city during clashes between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants, in Mosul, Iraq March 25, 2017. REUTERS/Khalid al Mousily Mosul (Reuters) Iraq’s military said on Sunday that 61 bodies were recovered from a collapsed building that Islamic State had booby-trapped in west Mosul, but there was no sign the building had […]

Body of a Somali refugee, killed in an attack by a helicopter while travelling in a vessel off the coast of Yemen, is carried at the Red Sea port of Hodeidah, Yemen, March 17, 2017. (Beirut) – An apparent Saudi-led coalition attack on a boat carrying Somali civilians off the coast of Yemen highlights the need […]

The General Staff of the Korean People’s Army said in a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency that it is ready to “mercilessly smash the enemy’s moves with its own style of special operation and preemptive attack, now that the sinister aim of the U.S. imperialists and the South Korean War maniacs’ ‘special […]

Ibrahim Dogus with police officers in Troia restaurant A Muslim-born restaurateur has told how he fed hundreds of emergency service workers for free in the aftermath of Wednesday’s terror attack. When police ordered Ibrahim Dogus to evacuate and close his three restaurants in the wake of the incident, he decided to keep Troia, on Belvedere […]

Pic: AP Residents of a posh Washington neighborhood say Ivanka Trump and her family don’t make for very good neighbors, taking up much of the parking on an already crowded street and leaving trash bags at the curb for days. A big part of the complaint: a huge security presence, with even a trip to […]

The U.S.-led Coalition has admitted to launching an airstrike that reportedly killedhundreds of civilians on March 17, claiming that Iraqi forces requested a strike on Islamic State militants at that location. On Saturday, Iraqi forces stated that they are pausing operations to deal with the high civilian casualty rate. When they resume operations, they may […]

President Uhuru Kenyatta today made an appeal to the international community to act right to fully bring back Somalia into the fold of the international community of nations as he rooted for durable solutions to the Somali refugees problem. President Kenyatta said the recent presidential elections in Somalia is the latest indication that Somalia is […]

Turkey may hold a referendum on whether to continue European Union accession talks after the April 16 referendum on the presidential system, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Saturday. Speaking at the sixth Turkish-British Tatlıdil Forum in southern Antalya province on Saturday, Erdoğan said that Turkey may hold a referendum on the issue as 54 […]

 US State Department representative said that United States has imposed sanctions against eight Russian companies in connection with the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act (INKSNA). The United States has imposed sanctions against eight Russian companies in connection with the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act (INKSNA), US State Department representative told Sputnik on Saturday. “Penalties are […]

Since the beginning of the western Mosul operation in February, the Iraqi army has managed to liberate 18 neighborhoods from the grip of Islamic State (IS), said an Iraqi counter-terrorism official. In the remaining neighborhoods, IS uses civilians as human shields in hopes of decelerating the Iraqi army’s advances, said Commander Abdulwahab Sa’idi, noting that […]