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The Swedish government on Sunday demanded that the White House clarifies what US President Donald Trump meant while speaking at a Florida rally on Saturday during which he referred to what The Swedish government on Sunday demanded that the White House clarifies what US President Donald Trump meant while speaking at a Florida rally on […]

Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) We Are Coming, Nineveh Operations Command announced on Sunday liberating four more villages in western Mosul from the Islamic State’s control. Commander of operations, Lt. Gn. Abdel Amir Yarallah, said in a press statement, “The army’s 9th armoured brigade liberated the villages of al-Husseiniyah, Sheikh Yunis and al-Harakiyat in western Mosul, and raised […]

Sunday’s blast also wounded more than 10 others and casualties may rise as many of the wounded victims suffered horrific wounds [Reuters] At least 14 people were killed when a car packed with explosives blew up near a busy intersection in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, officials and witnesses said. According to a security official […]

AA Photo Islam is not the source of terrorism, and Islamic scholars and Muslim countries should speak up against fundamentalists to make this clear to the world, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has said. In her address to the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Merkel underlined the importance of close cooperation with Muslim countries in defeating […]

Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, a blind cleric who preached at mosques in New York, was sentenced to life in 1996 for planning the attacks./AGENCIES Omar Abdel-Rahman, the extremist Muslim cleric known as “the blind sheikh” convicted of conspiracy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and planning more attacks as part of a “war of […]

Citizens gather at the border at Ciudad Juárez in show of unity, friendship with people of US  Hundreds of people, many carrying white roses, gathered at the Mexico-United States border at Ciudad Juárez-El Paso this afternoon to form a human wall in protest against the border wall and policies of U.S. President Donald Trump. Organizers […]

Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) A local source in Nineveh Province that the Islamic State group forced some residents of western Mosul to provide food to its combat detachments, Alsumaria News reported on Thursday. The source said, “The Islamic State forced the residents of western Mosul to feed its combat detachments in the neighborhoods of the area.” “The […]

 It should be winter on the Arctic pole – the northern most point in the world – but the equivalent of heatwaves have passed over the region this season melting the sea ice volume to a record low in January, the United Nations meteorological agency said. “Temperatures in the Arctic are quite remarkable and very […]

German regulators have banned an internet-connected doll called “My Friend Cayla” that can chat with children, warning Friday that it was a de facto “hidden spying device”. Parents were urged to disable the interactive toy by the Federal Network Agency which enforces bans on surveillance devices. “Items that conceal cameras or microphones and that are […]