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The Syrian Army and its allies have captured the last major stronghold of Islamic State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL), according to RT Arabic. Iraqi mobilization units also reportedly took part in the operation, local media reports. Syrian government forces have captured the town of Abu Kamal located in the Euphrates valley on the border with Iraq, […]

Shiite rebels in Yemen threatened on Tuesday to attack ports and airports in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, raising the stakes in a flare-up between Riyadh and Tehran. © Mohammed Huwais, AFP | A Yemeni man gestures at the site of an air strike in the capital Sanaa, on November 5, 2017. The […]

An electronics retailer could be set to lead the way for Chinese shopping bonanza Singles’ Day to take off in Denmark. Singles’ Day could become as popular as Black Friday for Danish consumers, says electronics retailer Elgiganten.Denmark, like other countries, has in recent years seen a shift in peak consuming times from January sales-type discount […]

MOSCOW, November 8. /TASS/. Washington has no intention of unleashing a war against Pyongyang using its regional allies, Georgy Toloraya, Director of the Russian Strategy in Asia Center at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Economics, told TASS on Wednesday © Boris Kavashkin/TASS “The Americans have no such conspiracy plans to unleash a war using […]

Picketers block a road in to Barcelona on November 8th. Photo: Pau Barrena/AFP Roads and railways in Catalonia have been brought to a halt by a general strike protesting for the freedom of politicians and campaigners currently detained over the region’s pro-independence drive. On Wednesday morning the A-2 and AP-7 highways were closed at several […]

President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan accompany US President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, to watch a Peking Opera performance at the Palace Museum’s Pavilion of Cheerful Melodies (Changyin ge) on Wednesday. * The Pavilion of Cheerful Melodies (Changyin ge), built in the Qianlong Period (1736-96) of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), is the largest […]

FILE PHOTO: Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stand gua “Instead of a genuine fight against terrorist groups we see a simulation of this fight while uncontrolled arms deliveries grow. One day the weapons go to so-called ‘moderate opposition’ in this or that place, and the next day they are […]

South Korea will begin talks with the United States to purchase the latter’s strategic arms, such as surveillance assets and nuclear-powered submarine, Cheong Wa Dae said after a summit between the leaders of the two nations, Tuesday. President Moon Jaein listens to U.S. President Donald Trump during a joint press conference after their summit at Cheong Wa Dae, Tuesday. South Korea is the second stop of the U.S. president’s five-nation Asian tour. He departs for China today. / Korea Times photo by Koh Young-kwon. South Korean President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed on the South’s purchase of cutting-edge […]

Russia’s nuclear deterrence is strong enough to ensure a “level of unacceptable damage” to any potential aggressor, the Chief of the General Staff has said. Reporting on the state of the Russian strategic nuclear forces on Tuesday, General Valery Gerasimov said some 74 percent of the arsenal employed cutting-edge technology. YARS solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile. […]

Hundreds of civilians have returned to a battered district of Syria’s Raqa in what a US-backed force said was the first wave of returns since it cleared explosives left by militants. A family arrives to check on their house in Raqa on October 20, 2017. (AFP) The ISIS group lost control of Raqqa – once […]