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Archive Hama/Idleb, SANA – A Syrian Arab Army unit destroyed two vehicles for Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists at the outskirts of al-Habbit town in Idleb’s southern countryside. SANA’s reporter in Hama said an army unit stationed at the outskirts of al-Qasabiya village in Idleb’s southern countryside north of Kadr Nabboudeh detected two vehicles used by terrorists […]

LaShic Patterson / US Army / AFP (file photo) | A US army soldier fires the Javelin anti-tank missile at a live fire exercise near Várpalota, Hungary, on June 5, 2019. The US-made Javelin missiles, found in the rebel camp south of Tripoli, belonged to the French military but were reportedly defective and scheduled to be destroyed. “Damaged and […]

MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB/AFP/Getty  Al-Qaeda’s Somali branch al-Shabaab, currently under pressure from a record number of U.S. airstrikes, has executed 18 people since last Wednesday, including many accused of espionage on behalf of regional governments and the United States, Voice of America (VOA) reported Monday. VOA notes that the recent killings ordered by an al-Shabaab (or al-Shabab) court mark […]

Envoy Kim Darroch described Trump’s administration as “clumsy and inept” [Sait Serkan Gurbuz/Reuters] Kim Darroch has resigned as British ambassador to the United States as a diplomatic row between the two allies erupts. The diplomat said “the current situation makes it impossible for me to carry out my role” following the leak of unflattering remarks […]

Donald Trump, Theresa May and Jeremy Hunt during the US president’s state visit last month. Photograph: Chris Jackson/PA Jeremy Hunt has publicly taken Donald Trump to task for “disrespectful and wrong” insults levelled at the UK’s ambassador to Washington, whose leaked memos criticising the president have caused a diplomatic crisis between Britain and the US. The foreign […]

Downing Street says the UK’s ambassador to the US has the prime minister’s “full support”, regardless of Donald Trump saying he’ll not work with him. The US president was responding after leaked emails revealed Sir Kim Darroch had known as his administration inept. Ina sequence of tweets, Mr Trump additionally criticised Theresa May’s dealing with […]

 A Nigerian court has ordered the imminent seizure of $40 million worth of jewellery and a customised gold iPhone belonging to former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke, the country’s anti-graft agency said on Friday. The items, including hundreds of bangles, rings, earrings, necklaces and watches, were found at a property owned by Alison-Madueke, the Economic and […]

New Democracy conservative party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis is greeted by supporters as he arrives at the party’s headquarters in Athens, Greece July 7, 2019. (Reuters Photo) Greek opposition conservatives held a strong lead over ruling leftist Syriza in snap elections on Sunday, a joint exit poll by five private TV stations showed. New Democracy was […]

KABUL- A Taliban truck bombing in southern Ghazni province today morning killed 12 people and injured another 179 citizens, most of them school children, officials said. A Taliban suicide bomber detonated his explosive laden mini-truck today morning around 8:30am near one of the facilities of the National Directorate of Security in Ghazni city. In this […]

“We don’t really believe this Administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept,” Kim Darroch wrote. | Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Capitol File Magazine “We don’t really believe this Administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction […]