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Syria’s six-year conflict has ravaged its infrastructure and caused losses to its economy of $226 billion, according to estimates published by the World Bank on Monday. The devastating war has killed over 320,000 people and displaced more than half the country’s population since it began in March 2011. A boy rides his bicycle amid ruins […]

A group of Americans were among 19 tourists who were robbed by masked men armed with tear gas as they waited outside their hotel at Charles-de-Gaulle airport to the north of Paris. The robbery took place outside the Novotel Hotel at Paris Charles-de-Gaulle airport on Saturday morning. Photo: AFP The thieves, hooded and dressed in […]

Haider al-Abadi announces ‘collapse’ of ISIL caliphate as US-led coalition says Iraqi troops have firm control of Mosul. Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has formally declared victory over the Islamic State of the Iraq and Levant (ISIL) in Mosul. “I announce from here the end and the failure and the collapse of the terrorist state […]

Austria has blocked Turkish economy minister Nihat Zeybekci from entering the country to join a rally marking the anniversary of last year’s failed coup attempt in Turkey. “He has been barred because his visit was not planned as part of a bilateral exchange, but was about his public appearance at an event marking the coup […]

About 12 hours after tweeting about possibly working with President Vladimir Putin and Russia on cybersecurity, President Donald Trump tweeted that he does not expect it to actually happen. “The fact that President Putin and I discussed a Cyber Security unit doesn’t mean I think it can happen. President Donald Trump did not explain his […]

Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State militants executed seven children on Monday as a punishment for their fleeing families west of Mosul, a senior paramilitary leader said. Jabbar al-Maamouri, a senior leader at the Popular Mobilization Forces, told Alsumaria News that IS militants executed seven children and hung their dead bodies Displaced children who fled the […]

Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., met with a Kremlin-linked lawyer during the 2016 election campaign after being promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton. This report published by the New York Times on Sunday (9 July) puts Trump in jeopardy after his first meeting with Russian President Putin left the impression the two get along well. According […]

Mogadishu, 08 July 2017 – The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has donated to the Somali Federal Government, an assortment of food and non-food items to assist drought-affected, internally displaced communities. Ambassador Francisco Caetano Madeira, the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia, said the donation will benefit about […]

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived in Mosul Sunday and congratulated Iraqi forces and citizens for victory over Islamic State militants who had occupied Iraq’s second largest city for three years. Abadi’s media office said he congratulated “the heroic fighters and the Iraqi people for the great victory”. State TV aired scenes of […]

World leaders made concessions on trade and climate language to Donald Trump Saturday at the end of the most fractious and riot-hit G20 summit ever, in exchange for preserving a fragile unity of the club of major industrialised and emerging economies. But the gesture opened the door for others, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan […]