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Tabqa, Syria // An alliance of US-backed Syrian fighters said on Friday it could launch an assault on ISIL’s Syrian bastion of Raqqa as soon as next month with new weapons and armoured vehicles promised by Washington. Commanders of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced the impending offensive in Tabqa, which the alliance of Kurdish […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) meets with Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn in Beijing, capital of China, May 12, 2017. Hailemariam Desalegn is in Beijing to attend the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. CHINESE President Xi Jinping on Friday called on China and Ethiopia to elevate bilateral relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership of cooperation. […]

DONALD Trump’s love for ice cream has created a headache for the US President after it was revealed he got two scoops with dinner, while three visiting journalists only got one. Mr Trump invited three Time journalists for a tour of his home and office, followed by a four-course dinner in the Blue Room less […]

The vote for the UK to leave the European Union last summer had a “clear” impact on the skyrocketing number of Brits seeking German citizenship, figures obtained by The Local show. Figures obtained by The Local show that after the Brexit referendum last summer, the number of Brits applying for German citizenship in major metropolitan […]

Behind the high fences of the repatriation centre at Ponte Galeria, just down the road from Rome’s Fiumicino airport, dozens of women sit outside, waiting for word on whether they will have to leave Italy. But as the government steps up its efforts to send more migrants home, many who pinned their hopes on asylum […]

Behind the high fences of the repatriation centre at Ponte Galeria, just down the road from Rome’s Fiumicino airport, dozens of women sit outside, waiting for word on whether they will have to leave Italy. But as the government steps up its efforts to send more migrants home, many who pinned their hopes on asylum […]

Recently elected Emmanuel Macron, who is due to take over the French presidency on Sunday, has received some sage words of advice from a former UK Prime Minister to whom he has previously been compared.Ex-British Labour prime minister, Tony Blair has sent a message to France’s new president Emmanuel Macron, in an editorial for in Le […]

AFP, WashingtonFriday, 12 May 2017The US State Department has approved the possible sale of 160 missiles to the United Arab Emirates for an estimated $2.0 billion, the Pentagon said on Thursday. The UAE government has requested the possible sale of 60 Patriot missiles with canisters and 100 Patriot guidan ce enhanced missiles, among other military […]

The Trump administration would consider deploying additional U.S. troops to Somalia should the troubled African nation request greater military aid to combat al-Qaida loyalists there, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis indicated Thursday. “That’s a decision we’ll take if it’s broached to us, and we’ll decide yes or no,” Mattis told reporters after attending a London security conference […]

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) A map released by the Iraqi military media on Thursday suggested that government troops became in control over 90 percent of western Mosul. The map, posted by the Defense Ministry’s War Media Cell, shows that only 10 percent remain under Islamic State militants’ control as the forces opened a new front of operations […]