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A commander with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces battling ISIS says the city of Raqqa has been liberated from the radical militants and that combing operations are underway to clear the city of land mines and extremist sleeper cells. Fighters of Syrian Democratic Forces gesture the “V” sign in Raqqa, Syria. (Reuters) Brig. Gen. Talal […]

Somalia’s president has blamed al-Shabab for the countriest deadliest attack, which killed more than 300 people. Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo told Al Jazeera that the armed group’s “fingerprints” could be found over Saturday’s blast in the capital, Mogadishu, and that al-Shabab had a history of similar attacks. “This is their fingerprints, this is what they have […]

The damaged police station. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT A police station in the southern Swedish city of Helsingborg was hit by a heavy explosion in the early hours of Wednesday morning. A large part of the building and even the windows on the building opposite were damaged by the force of the blast, though no people […]

KABUL – The Taliban claimed the more deadly of the two assaults, a coordinated attack on police in the southeast city of Gardez in Paktia province. Two separate suicide and gun attacks on police and soldiers in left at least 71 dead and nearly 170 wounded Tuesday in the latest devastating assaults on beleaguered security […]

In this Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017 file photo, the leader of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, Massoud Barzani, speaks to reporters during a press conference in Irbil, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017. (AP Photo) The Kurdish vote for independence “won’t be in vain”, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) leader Masoud Barzani said on Tuesday, reacting to Iraq’s […]

Provinces, SANA- Army units operating in Deir Ezzor destroyed many gatherings of ISIS terrorists on the eastern and the western banks of the Euphrates River few hours after restoring control over al-Husseiniya strategic town to the north of the city. To the southeast of Deir Ezzor city, army units started wide-scale and accurate operations to […]

Jim Lo Scalzo – Pool/Getty Images “We’re not getting the job done,” President Trump said Monday when asked about the project his former chief strategist Stephen Bannon is embarking on to unseat nearly every Republican incumbent senator running for re-election. “And I’m not going to blame myself. I’ll be honest: They are not getting the job done.” […]

Wounded Somalis arrive in Ankara for treatment late Monday. (AA Photo)  Turkey’s deputy prime minister has announced that 35 Somalis, including three children, injured in Saturday’s truck bombing in capital Mogadishu, arrived in the Turkish capital Ankara late Monday, while Somali politicians expressed their gratitude for Turkey’s help. Video : 35  Somalis injured in Mogadishu […]

US Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urged President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday to work closely with European allies as it develops its new Iran policy. President Trump speaks about the Iran nuclear deal in the White House in Washington, on October 13, 2017. (Reuters) “This is something […]

This US Air Force handout photo taken on August 9, 2015 shows F-16 Fighting Falcons sitting on the tarmac at the Incirlik Air Base near Adana, Turkey. (AP Photo) The U.S. military said Monday it conducted deadly nighttime airstirkes against Daesh fighters at the group’s training camps in central Yemen, in the first such attack […]