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Deir Ezzor, SANA – The Syrian Air Force carried out intensive sorties over areas of ISIS gatherings and supply routes in the graveyards area, the brick factories, al-Majbal, al-Tharda, Wadi al-Tharda and al-Ommal neighborhood. SANA reporter said the sorties resulted in the deaths of many terrorists, while others were injured. The terrorists’ weapons and equipment […]

The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has held a workshop to discuss ways of reducing the number of civilian casualties in road accidents involving AMISOM convoys. The workshop, which took place in Mogadishu, last week, was attended by stakeholders in AMISOM operations in Somalia, unified under the Civilian Casualty Tracking, Analysis and Response Cell […]

RIYADH — The Kingdom has further relaxed the male guardian system. The move to give women more control over their life choices was tentatively welcomed on Friday as another small step for Saudi women in the conservative kingdom. Local media outlets reported this week that Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has issued […]

BEIJING – China urged the United States to sack the head of the U.S. Pacific Command in return for exerting more pressure on North Korea amid concerns over its growing nuclear and missile threats, a source close to U.S.-China ties said Saturday. The Chinese leadership headed by President Xi Jinping made the request, through its […]

Mosul – Iraqi forces pushed further into Mosul from the north on the second day of a new push to speed up the nearly seven-month attempt to dislodge ISIS, commanders said on Friday. Footage taken by a drone operated by the Iraqi 9th Armored Division over the northwestern suburb of Musherfa, showed the militants had […]

The French capital, unlike other parts of the country, does not like Marine Le Pen much – in fact only five percent voted for her. So are Parisians losing sleep at the thought she could be the next French president? On the side of a building in Montorgueil, a trendy pedestrian area in central Paris, a line […]

The US has suffered its first combat death in Somalia since 1993, with a US Navy SEAL killed in a clash with al Shabaab militants.  A US Navy SEAL has been killed and two troops wounded in a clash with al Shabaab militants in Somalia, US officials say, in what appeared to be the first […]

Rescuers in the Mediterranean raced Friday to the aid of more than 20 migrant dinghies in distress as the debate in Italy over privately-funded aid ships intensified and the death toll at sea ticked steadily upwards. “There are over 20 boats in difficulty off Libya and an already tense situation has worsened with people in […]

North Korea says a pair of strategic US bombers, which recently flew over the Korean Peninsula in joint wargames with the South, practiced dropping a nuclear bomb amid rising tensions in the restive region. In a Tuesday report, the North’s official KCNA news agency slammed the US for deploying two supersonic B-1B Lancer bombers during […]