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A US-backed Kurdish militia has deployed fighters to the frontline of Syria’s Manbij to battle Turkey’s military after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said it would be next after launching the cross-border Afrin operation. YPG fighters are preparing to defend Manbij after Turkey attacked Afrin [File: Khalil Ashawi/Reuters] Manbij is about 100km east of Afrin where […]

resident Erdoğan pointed to wrong policies initiated by the Obama administration as reason for the disputes between the two NATO allies concerning Afrin as Ankara expects concrete steps from Washington to recover disrupted military cooperation President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Wednesday that the instability and terrorism from the PKK terrorist organization’s Syrian affiliate Democratic Union […]

Lebanon must cut Iran-backed Hezbollah from the financial sector, a US official on combating illicit finance said on Tuesday, two weeks after Washington began a new push to disrupt the militant group’s global financing routes. US Treasury’s Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing Marshall Billingslea urged Lebanon to ensurethat Hezbollah is rooted out of the financial […]

Mosul (IraqiNews.com)  The number of mass graves containing the relics of  people from  the Iraqi Yazidi minority discovered in  Mosul has reached 70. This image released by the the Mass Graves Directorate of the Kurdish Regional Government shows a human skull in a mass grave containing Yazidis killed by Islamic State militants in the Sinjar […]

The European Union’s ambassador to China urged Beijing on Wednesday to “immediately” release a book publisher after the Swedish citizen was snatched for a second time while accompanied by Swedish diplomats, with Sweden’s Foreign Minister also calling for his release. Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström. Photo: Wiktor Nummelin/TT The case of Hong Kong-based Gui Minhai, […]

As an undercover operative for Somalia’s al Shabaab militia, Nasteh spied on the insurgent group’s senior commanders to ensure their loyalty and planned bombings and assassinations in government-controlled territory. Members of Somalia’s al-Qaeda linked al Shabaab militia. File photo  Image: REUTERS/Feisal Omar/File Photo But late last year, the government officials he once hunted became his handlers […]

BENTON, Ky. — A 15-year-old student opened fire Tuesday at a high school in rural Kentucky, killing two people and wounding a dozen more, authorities said The members of Impact Church lit candles and sang Amazing Grace on Tuesday evening during a service in remembrance of the two killed and 17 injured during a shooting […]

he U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed former investment banker Jerome Powell as head of the Federal Reserve, putting President Donald Trump’s pick in a role of enormous influence over the world’s largest economy. In this Nov. 28, 2017, file photo, Jerome Powell, President Donald Trump’s nominee for chairman of the Federal Reserve, sits in the […]

The Korean government has used biotechnology to detect more than 4,700 attempts at illegal entry over the past two years, the Ministry of Justice said Monday. According to the ministry, 4,790 foreigners were denied entry after trying to conceal their real identity between December 2015 and the end of 2017. The ministry used a technology […]

At least two people have been killed in a car bomb and gunfire attack on an office of Save the Children in eastern Afghanistan, according to local media reports. At least two people have died in the attack, according to Pajhwok Afghan News [Parwiz/Reuters] At least two people have died in the attack, according to Pajhwok […]