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The ISIS group no longer has a presence in Syria’s Aleppo province after withdrawing from a series of villages where regime forces were advancing, a monitor said on Friday. “ISIS withdrew from 17 towns and villages and is now effectively outside of Aleppo province after having a presence there for four years,” said Rami Abdel […]

Iran has dismissed as a “psychological ploy” a recent statement by a number of European Union lawmakers against the Islamic Republic, saying the country’s Armed Forces will not hesitate to fight Takfiri terrorists. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Wednesday that Iran’s Armed Forces, including the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), would press […]

A man was arrested after he drove his vehicle into barriers protecting a mosque in the Paris suburbs Thursday, police said, with Muslim officials describing the incident as an “attempted attack”. The 4X4 vehicle “struck pillars and barriers in place to protect the mosque of Creteil”, in the southeast of the capital, before speeding off […]

European leaders vowed Thursday to defend the landmark Paris climate pact at a G20 summit next week, setting them on collision course with US President Donald Trump at what is expected to be a stormy meeting. Leaders of Germany, France, Italy and other EU economies acknowledged their long standing ties with Washington but said they […]

Five suicide bombers attacked Lebanese soldiers as they raided two Syrian refugee camps in the Arsal area at the border with Syria on Friday and a sixth militant threw a hand grenade at a patrol, the army said. Seven soldiers were wounded. A Lebanese army statement said one suicide bomber had detonated his explosive laden […]

 South Korea has developed a new modern air defense warning system, relying on digital communications. The will allow fast sharing, real-time battlespace images among military units. The homegrown early warning system, the Command Control and Alert, or C2A, which has been in development since 2010, is expected to enter service in 2019, Yonhap news agency reports citing […]

Ascaled-back version of President Donald Trump’s travel bantook effect Thursday evening, stripped of provisions that brought protests and chaos at airports worldwide in January yet still likely to generate a new round of court fights. The new rules, the product of months of legal wrangling, aren’t so much an outright ban as a tightening of already-tough […]

Germany said Thursday it had rejected a request by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to address ethnic Turks in Germany next week on the sidelines of a G20 summit. Berlin-Ankara relations have badly deteriorated amid disputes over Turkey’s mass arrests of alleged state enemies since a failed coup last year and a host of other […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. ― South Korean President Moon Jae-in called for bipartisan effort in resolving North Korea’s nuclear program issue to the leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, Thursday. In a meeting with them on the sideline of his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., Moon exchanged key issues […]