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 Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi government forces brought down more Islamic State defense lines and killed scores of militants while advancing through the last few meters held by the group in western Mosul, military media said. The Defense Ministry’s War Media Cell said government troops broke down “the strongest” Islamic State defenses in Khatouniya and Ras al-Khour […]

The Pentagon has acknowledged that a US drone has carried out an airstrike in Somalia against the terrorist group Al-Shabaab. There were no further details about the attack, the second since President Donald Trump expanded US strike authority. “On July 2, at approximately 7:30 am Eastern Daylight Time, US forces conducted a kinetic strike operation […]

Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Three Islamic State suicide bombers were killed as they attacked the Sunni tribal forces, east of Ramadi, Anbar province. Speaking to Mawazin News, Ghassan al-Eithawi, spokesperson of Al-Hashd Al-Ashaeri (Tribal Mobilization Forces), said “three attackers wearing suicide belts attempted attacking the troops deployed in Jazeerat al-Bu’ebeid region, east of Ramadi.”  Tribal fighters. File […]

Police in northern Germany detained one man suspected of plotting “significant” crimes against the upcoming G20 summit in Hamburg, after finding numerous weapons at hisHamburg police reported on Sunday that Rostock police had evidence that a 30-year-old resident in their city was plotting to commit “significant crimes” in connection with the G20 international summit in […]

Eight people including a girl were lightly wounded late Sunday in a shooting in front of a mosque in the southeast French city of Avignon, the prosecutor’s office said, ruling out terrorism. According to initial accounts taken on the spot, at least two men got out of a car around 10:30pm near the mosque and […]

Overlooking reactions both at home and from abroad, KRG leader Barzani has rolled up his sleeves for a referendum on independence. Barzani’s tenacity for independence is likely to mar a hard-won alliance between the KRG and Turkey, due to the latter’s stringent objection to an independent Kurdish entity on its border As in the recent […]

China has sent military vessels and warplanes to “warn off” USS Stethem, a guided-missile destroyer, that sailed near a disputed island in the South China Sea, according to Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang. “Under the pretext of ‘freedom of navigation,’ the US side once again sent a military vessel into China’s territorial waters off […]

Egyptian passersby east of Cairo recently noticed a young girl in her 20s wearing worn-out clothes and sleeping under the Abbasiyah bridge. They thought she was homeless, only to find out later that she hails from a wealthy family in El Mahalla. The surprise came when a passerby published a photo of the girl on […]

Swede Johan Gustafsson, who was recently freed after being held hostage by al-Qaeda in Mali since 2011, has spoken publicly for the first time since his release. “A few days ago I was alone and isolated in the Sahara. Today I am here together with my family. I am home,” he says in a video […]

Permanent Representative of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations, Abdallah Al-Mouallimi, has said that Qatar is still insisting on destabilizing the security of Saudi Arabia and the region and to support terrorism, which poses threats to the entire world. “Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt made a sovereign decision to boycott Qatar […]