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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Seven security personnel of the pro-government paramilitary troops were killed and injured as a bomb blast targeted their patrol, southwest of Kirkuk, a source said on Saturday. Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said, “a bomb exploded, in the evening, as a patrol of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) was passing at al-Najatiya […]

Spokesperson for the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) Nuri Mahmoud speaks to Kurdistan 24 during a live broadcast interview, Qamishlo, Syrian Kurdistan, March 10, 2018. (Photo: Kurdistan 24) ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – A Spokesperson for the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) on Saturday downplayed Turkey’s threats to expand its operations beyond […]

The two countries expressed their commitment to a long-term partnership to support the realization of Vision 2030. (Reuters) LONDON — During the visit to the United Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman at the invitation of the Government of Queen Elizabeth II, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom confirmed and […]

Head of South Korea’s National Security Office Chung Eui-yong, center, South Korean Ambassador to the U.S. Cho Yoon-je, right, and National Intelligence Service chief Suh Hoon make the announcement about the summit between North Korea and the Trump administration outside the West Wing of the White House, Washington, D.C., March 8. / REUTERS-Yonhap There was […]

North Korean foreign minister Ri Yong Ho at the UN General Assembly in September 2017. Photo: Richard Drew/AP Photo/TT North Korea’s foreign minister will visit Sweden soon, local media reported Friday, after US President Donald Trump and the North’s leader Kim Jong Un agreed to meet to discuss Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile tests. Ri Yong […]

  Fighters from besieged Eastern Ghouta were transported on a government bus through the al-Wafeedin corridor [Youssef Badawi/EPA] In a surprise move, several members of Syria’s armed opposition have been evacuated from rebel-held Eastern Ghouta late on Friday, sources told Al Jazeera. The evacuation comes as the Syrian army intensified its operations in the central […]

FILE PHOTO © KCNA / Reuter North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has revealed an unexpected side of his character to Southern negotiators in Pyongyang. Rolling out snacks and wine for them, he reportedly cracked jokes about himself. This week’s meeting between Kim and a South Korean delegation in Pyongyang was a first in many ways. […]

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House on March 5, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan) And if you do go ahead, at least don’t let Riyadh enrich its own uranium, PM reportedly urged US president; Saudis want up to 17 reactors, Iran-style enrichment rights […]

US Defence Secretary James Mattis is greeted by Djibouti’s Minister of Defence Ali Hasan Bahdon as he arrives at Djibouti-Ambouli International Airport in Ambouli, Djibouti.REUTERS DJIBOUTI: US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis arrived Sunday for a short visit to Djibouti, a strategic Horn of Africa nation which hosts Washington’s only permanent military base on the continent. […]

Humanitarian aid is being distributed in the Syrian opposition-held enclave of eastern Ghouta on the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus in Douma, Syria, March 9, 2018. (AFP Photo) UN  aid convoy into Syria’s eastern Ghouta on Friday unloaded all its aid in the opposition-held area’s main town of Douma and crossed back into Assad regime-held […]