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© Peruvian Ministry of Defense | President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski during the Flag Parade in Tacna, Peru on August 28, 2017. Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kucyznski scrambled for his political survival Thursday as opponents demanded he resign over revelations of decade-old payments from a Brazilian construction company at the center of Latin America’s biggest graft […]

Weapons supplied by the United States and Saudi Arabia to opposition fighters often fell into the hands of ISIL, significantly enhancing the “quantity and quality” of the group’s armaments, a new report alleges. Iraqi security forces display weapons confiscated from ISIL fighters [Wissm Al-Okili/Reuters] The number of weapons goes “far beyond those that would have been […]

Salahuddin (Iraqinews.com) The Iraqi Ministry of Oil started on Thursday reconstructing the country’s biggest oil refinery Baiji, which was completely destroyed in intense fighting between government forces and Islamic State group. The aim is to complete reconstruction work early next year on one of the units that will produce 70,000 barrels per day at the […]

US envoy to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Thursday at a press conference befor the Security Council in New York that Iran’s behavior in the Middle East is getting worse, fanning flames of conflict. US envoy to the United Nations Nikki Haley. (Screengrab) Haley confirmed that the US has evidence that the missile fired […]

Three Iraqi Yazidi children, kidnapped by Daesh terrorists in 2014, were brought to Turkey’s southeastern province Gaziantep on Thursday to be reunited with their families. İHA Photo The children aged 5, 6 and 7 were kidnapped by Daesh in Iraq’s Sinjar region and were recovered in Syria. They were brought to the Consulate General of […]

US President Donald Trump is taking an “extremely dangerous” and “big step” towards nuclear war by seeking a naval blockade, North Korea has stated, according to the official KCNA news agency. The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Stethem are underway alongside ships from the Republic of Korea (ROK) Navy […]

Vladimir Putin believes that Russia must be a 21st century country with a hi-tech powered economy. “Our GDP grew by 75% since 2000, while industrial production surged 70%, the processing industry grew at an accelerated pace,” the president pointed out. Putin added that taxes have tripled since 2000, and the country’s reserves have increased 30-fold. […]

Austria’s top court said on Tuesday that it has ruled that same-sex couples can marry, bringing the Alpine country into line with more than a dozen other European nations. A Rainbow Pride march in Vienna earlier this year. Photo: Alexander Klein/AFP “The Constitutional Court nullified with a decision on December 4th, 2017 the legal regulation […]

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has criticized the Muslim countries which failed to show a strong response to Washington’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, accusing them of being afraid of the US. Demonstrators set U.S. and Israeli flags on fire during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem […]

Demands from the nationalist Danish People’s Party (DF) that Syrian refugees be sent home as soon as possible are threatening to bring down the country’s center-right minority government. A file photo dated 13 January 2016 showing refugees in their beds at the refugee tent camp in Thisted, Northern Jutland, Denmark. (EPA Photo) The government depends […]