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 Abdul-Ghani al-Assadi, commander of Iraq’s anti-terrorism forces. Archival photo. Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi government forces recaptured 60 percent of the western side of Mosul since oeprations to clear the region from the Islamic State began in February, according to the commander of the army’s Counter-Terrorism Force. Abdul-Ghani al-Assadi said in statements quoted by Iraqi news websites […]

(File) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, uses binoculars to look at the South’s territory from an observation post. Pic: AP. NORTH KOREA used anti-aircraft guns to execute five senior security officials after they allegedly made false reports that left the regime’s supreme leader “enraged”, South Korea’s spy agency said earlier this week.An Associated Press (via […]

 Secretary-General Antonio Guterres makes emergency visit as worsening drought leaves 6.2 million hungry. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres makes emergency visit as worsening drought leaves 6.2 million hungry. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has arrived in Somalia on an emergency visit aimed at drumming up support for an effort to avert a famine that could affect 6.2 […]

 Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Muhammad Ali Karim is an Iraqi-Kurdish sniper and soldier in the Peshmerga forces fighting the extremist Islamic State in Iraq, and due to his extraordinary courage and daring, he is known as Captain Rambo. Muhammad killed 260 militants and is considered a threat to the Islamic State group, so it placed a large […]

Women makeup close to 44 per cent of Emirates’ workforce. As we ring in the International Women’s Day this week, Dubai-based carrier Emirates gave wings to two female pilots to fly the iconic Emirates Airbus A380. On board to fly from Dubai to Veinna were Captain Nevin Darwish from Egypt and First Officer Alia Al Muhairi […]

Mogadishu, 6 March 2017 – Somalia has made significant progress in enhancing the status of women, Lydia Wanyoto, the deputy AU Special Representative for Somalia said today. Wanyoto commended the Federal Government of Somalia for supporting the women’s cause and ensuring greater political participation for women in the recently concluded elections. She was addressing journalists […]

Artem Gorbunov / Vkontakte This Monday, the city of Nizhny Novgorod buried Artem Gorbunov, the 24-year-old Russian soldier killed on March 2 during the storming of Palmyra, according to the newspaper Kommersant. Gorbunov’s widow told Kommersant that her husband’s unit was ambushed. Russia’s Defense Ministry and Gorbunov’s unit, however, have refused to confirm or deny […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Amid concerns over whether Syria’s civil war will result in Iran having increased power in the Middle East, Israeli PM Netanyahu will meet Russian President Putin this week in Moscow to press for a limit to Iran’s influence in Syria Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]

Announcement, which some dispute, comes as forces continue offensive against ISIL from western side of the Tigris River. More than 200,000 people have been displaced as a result of the Mosul offensive [Zohra Bensemra/Reuters] The Iraqi army said its US-backed forces have captured a bridge that leads to the ISIL-held city centre from the south, […]

  Ugandan troops serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia. Flickr/Creative Commons/AMISOM Public Information Somalia is synonymous in the American lexicon with death, destruction, anarchy and humanitarian calamity. The “Black Hawk down” disaster that resulted in the slaying of eighteen elite U.S. soldiers may have occurred over twenty-three years ago, but the image of […]