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Anti-government protesters set fires and close a street during a demonstration in Baghdad CREDIT: AP Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi was said to have rejected the resignation of seven ministers to prevent the collapse of his government as the country witnesses deadly protests over corruption and poor public services. A political […]

AP File Photo Germany’s interior minister Sunday called for closer cooperation with Turkey to handle the refugee and migration crisis. Horst Seehofer said in an exclusive interview with the Welt am Sonntag weekly that they were not in a position to address the migration and refugee issues alone through the arrangements of the past. “There […]

In this photo released on July 1, 2019, Foreign Minister Israel Katz visits the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Center in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Courtesy Katz’s office) Israel is reportedly negotiating with several Gulf states on a “non-aggression pact” between them as they face off against an increasingly emboldened Iran. The deal, which Channel […]

Somalian policemen are being trained for counterterrorism operations. Agroup of Somali police officers underwent training in Turkey as the African country is embattled with terror attacks by the Al-Shabaab terrorist group.In an elite school for the Turkish Army’s commando units in the western town of Foça, police officers learned how to handle terror threats in […]

 North Korean authorities have physically blocked out the high-rise windows of what appear to be hundreds of apartments throughout Pyongyang, NK News analysis of late August and September photos shows. Windows in the upper sections of buildings facing towards or near the ‘forbidden city’ complex in central Pyongyang have been blocked with opaque covers or one-directional slats, […]

 Protesters in Baghdad. Photograph: Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – An Iraqi human rights commission said on Saturday that the death toll from four days of anti-government protests in Baghdad and other Iraqi provinces rose to 93, while 3,978 others were injured. The Independent High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR), which is linked to the Iraqi […]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi. | Win McNamee/Getty Images House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted congressional Democrats were obligated to push forward with their impeachment inquiry regardless of its political ramifications for the 2020 election — but also warned that a second term of Donald Trump’s presidency would wreak “irreparable damage” upon the country. “‘I solemnly swear to […]

Police block the street near Paris prefecture de police (police headquarters) on October 3, 2019 after three persons have been hurt in a knife attack. © AFP / Martin BUREAU At least four officers have died in a brazen knife attack at the Paris police headquarters, according to reports. The assailant, said to be an […]

U.S. Air Force The front of a C-130J Super Hercules, assigned to the 75th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron (EAS), is parked as it delivers supplies to U.S. forcein Somalia, Sept. 12, 2019.more … A U.S. service member suffered a concussion injury from Monday’s attack by the terrorist group al-Shabab at a U.S. military airfield in Somalia, according to U.S. […]

MFILE PHOTO ©  KCNA via Reuters The launch of several unidentified missiles from North Korea has been detected by the Japenese coast guard and the South Korean military, mere hours after Pyongyang said it would resume denuclearization talks with the US. At least two projectiles were launched from Wonsan in the Kangwon province, eastward into the sea, Yonhap […]