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Iran has dismissed recent allegations by a Saudi military official against the Islamic Republic, saying the extremist ideologies cultivated by Saudi Arabia are the root cause of terrorism in the Middle East. Extremist ideologies developed in Saudi Arabia have led to the formation of various Takfiri terrorist groups, which are threatening people in the region and […]

 Kathrada, beloved by millions of South Africans, spent 26 years in jail, many of them alongside Nelson Mandela. Anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada, who spent 26 years in jail – many of them alongside Nelson Mandela  – for acts of sabotage against South Africa’s white minority government, died in Johannesburg on Tuesday morning at the age of 87. […]

AP Photo U.S. President Donald Trump’s bans seeking restrictions on people traveling to U.S. that created a perception that the country is less welcoming to foreigners are likely to damage the country’s $250-billion travel industry and its roughly 15 million U.S. employees, tourism groups predict. According to the Bloomberg’s report, the State Department’s actions to […]

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Ministry of Defense’s War Media Cell announced on Monday, that the Army Aviation warplanes carried out air strikes, based on intelligence information, on the Islamic State’s headquarters in areas west of the city of Mosul. The cell said that the Army Aviation bombarded a gathering of the Islamic State members, who were […]

attakia – The Russian Defense Ministry denied allegations of terrorist organizations that a Russian helicopter was shot down in Lattakia countryside. The spokesperson of Russian Coordination Center in Hmeimim said that “All aircraft of Russia’s Aerospace Forces in the Syrian Arab Republic are at their bases or involved in routine missions. Claims made by terrorist-controlled media […]

A 12-year-old boy has perhaps become the youngest father in India. The boy, hailing from Kerala, is the father of a baby girl. The mother of the baby is a 16-year-old. According to The Hindu, the boy has been booked for impregnating the teenage girl under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. The […]

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Maori scholar Piri Sciascia press noses and foreheads together in a hongi, a traditional Maori welcome, during an official ceremony at Government House in Wellington yesterday. Li is on a four-day visit to New Zealand. — AFP CHINA and New Zealand ramped up their cooperation yesterday, saying they would open […]

South Korean prosecutors sought an arrest warrant on Monday for ousted president Park Geun-Hye, they said, days after questioning her over the corruption and abuse of power scandal that brought her down. Park, 65, had her removal from office confirmed by the country’s top court earlier this month, ending her executive immunity, and her prosecution […]

Members of the Islamic State while stoning a youth in Mosul. Mosul (IraqiNews.com) The Islamic State group has sentenced a youth to death by stoning in the city of Mosul, on charges of homosexuality. The terrorist group published photos on affiliated websites showing a number of IS Diwan al-Hisbah (accountability) members, while reading out death […]

Moscow has requested a special briefing of the UN Security Council in connection with the US actions in Mosul that left civilians dead, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday. Mosul airstrikes:US seeks to`shift blame`for civilian Casualilies  Sputnik cited a representative of the Iraqi Turkmen Front as confirming following media reports last week the death of 200 civilians due […]