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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 […]

An open-ended cease-fire in southern Syria brokered by the United States and Russia has come into effect. The ceasefire, announced after a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Hamburg last week, is the first initiative by the Trump administration in collaboration with Russia to bring some stability to war-torn […]

US President Donald Trump’s position on climate change was termed “regrettable” by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in her closing remarks at the G20 summit but world leaders appeared to have struck a deal on trade policies. In Hamburg on Saturday, Merkel said the two-day summit, marred by violent protests on the streets, achieved “good results in some areas” and […]

The Donald Trump seen on television is different from the one in real life, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the G20 summit, adding that after his meeting with the US leader in Hamburg, he felt like relations between the two countries could at least partially be restored. “As for personal relations, I think that […]

US President Donald Trump heads Saturday into the final day of a fractious and violent G20 summit in Germany at odds even with America’s traditional Western allies. Negotiators from the world’s 20 top economies were expected to have worked all night trying to hammer out a final summit statement that at least gives the impression […]

The violence that has marred the G20 summit since Thursday escalated even further late on Friday evening, with rioters smashing up and plundering shops in the left-wing Schanzenviertel neighbourhood. Police responded in huge numbers to the violence, deploying water cannon against the rioters, who defended themselves by constructing burning barricades. Special forces, armed with machine […]

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia reaffirmed before the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on Friday that terrorism has no religion, for it is a crime that targets the entire world, according to Saudi Press Agency (SPA). Indeed, it does not differentiate between religions and ethnic groups, and Saudi Arabia condemns terrorism in all forms and […]

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi government forces on Saturday took control over western Mosul’s medieval Old City, the last bastion for Islamic State militants in Iraq’s second largest city. Military media quoted the Joint Operations Command saying forces took control over the Old City, the birthplace of Islamic State’s self-styled “caliphate” in Iraqi and Syria which was […]

Journalists rushed the G20 backstage to see the much-anticipated first meeting of the US and Russian presidents at the summit. READ MORE: Putin & Trump meet on sidelines of G20 summit (VIDEO) “OK, one by one,” a member of the protocol team presumably can be heard in the video trying to organize the reporters eager to enter […]