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North Korea’s Kim Jong Un said it is important to boost the “warm climate of reconciliation” after meeting with the delegation that returned to the North after visiting the South for the Winter Olympics, the North’s state media said on Tuesday. © KCNA via KNS / AFP | This photo taken on February 10, 2018 […]

Damascus/Daraa, SANA – Material damage was caused on Monday due to shelling attacks by armed groups on Damascus and its Countryside in a new violation of the de-escalation zone in Eastern Ghouta. Speaking to SANA, a source at Damascus Police Command said that the armed groups fired a rocket shell on the Clinics Complex in […]

An Iraqi interior ministry official said the Islamic State group’s head Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is alive and being treated at a field hospital in Syria after being wounded in an air strike. © AFP(archive) “We have irrefutable information and documents from sources within the terrorist organisation that al-Baghdadi is still alive and hiding” in Syria‘s northeastern Jazira region, […]

At least five people died in prefectures facing the Sea of Japan and elsewhere as heavy snowfall hit the areas Monday due to a strong winter pressure pattern, according to a Kyodo News tally. A woman walks during heavy snow in Fukui on Monday.  Photo: KYODO Sea of Japan coastal areas are expected to continue to see […]

Palestine refuses to consider the U.S. as the only mediator in its talks with Israel, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday. Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia February 12, 2018. (Reuters Photo) […]

Mogadishu, 12 February 2018 – African Union supports the free movement of persons in the continent and will continue working with regional economic blocs to achieve the objective, the Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (DSRCC) for Somalia, Simon Mulongo has said. The eight-member state Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) is […]

‘How can we ensure people are coming forward to report and document them?’ Fatmeh Kalouti says she felt the backlash last September, after a Somali refugee attacked an Edmonton police officer and ran down pedestrians on downtown sidewalks.M ‘Discrimination’s not OK A Muslim woman who wears a hijab, Kalouti didn’t know the accused man, but heard about […]

While the role of Islam in French society has long been a divisive and inflammatory topic a new study suggests people in France are now more accepting of the religion. The Grand Mosque in Paris. Photo: AFP The new survey showed that 56 percent of French people believe Islam to be compatible with the values […]

ISLAMABAD/SRINAGAR: Pakistan warned India against cross-border strikes in the disputed region of Kashmir after Indian authorities blamed a Pakistan-based group for an attack on an army camp in which soldiers and their families were targeted. Saturday’s attack on the camp near Jammu, the winter capital of the revolt-torn state of Jammu and Kashmir, was the […]

Months after its liberation from ISIS by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, Raqqa still lies in ruins. However, neither the militants nor the coalition itself seem to be keen on helping to rebuild the destroyed Syrian city. VIDEO:Ghost Town: Aerial footage of ruined Raqqa The north-eastern Syrian city, which was once the de-facto capital of […]