The Pentagon has acknowledged that a US drone has carried out an airstrike in Somalia against the terrorist group Al-Shabaab. There were no further details about the attack, the second since President Donald Trump expanded US strike authority. “On July 2, at approximately 7:30 am Eastern Daylight Time, US forces conducted a kinetic strike operation […]
Continue reading …Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Three Islamic State suicide bombers were killed as they attacked the Sunni tribal forces, east of Ramadi, Anbar province. Speaking to Mawazin News, Ghassan al-Eithawi, spokesperson of Al-Hashd Al-Ashaeri (Tribal Mobilization Forces), said “three attackers wearing suicide belts attempted attacking the troops deployed in Jazeerat al-Bu’ebeid region, east of Ramadi.” Tribal fighters. File […]
Continue reading …Police in northern Germany detained one man suspected of plotting “significant” crimes against the upcoming G20 summit in Hamburg, after finding numerous weapons at hisHamburg police reported on Sunday that Rostock police had evidence that a 30-year-old resident in their city was plotting to commit “significant crimes” in connection with the G20 international summit in […]
Continue reading …China’s leader is coming to Moscow for what the Russian president described as “a major event in bilateral relations.” It will be the two leaders’ third meeting this year, and deals worth $10 billion are expected to be signed this time. Chinese President Xi Jinping will arrive in Russia on Monday, making a two-day stop […]
Continue reading …Eight people including a girl were lightly wounded late Sunday in a shooting in front of a mosque in the southeast French city of Avignon, the prosecutor’s office said, ruling out terrorism. According to initial accounts taken on the spot, at least two men got out of a car around 10:30pm near the mosque and […]
Continue reading …Overlooking reactions both at home and from abroad, KRG leader Barzani has rolled up his sleeves for a referendum on independence. Barzani’s tenacity for independence is likely to mar a hard-won alliance between the KRG and Turkey, due to the latter’s stringent objection to an independent Kurdish entity on its border As in the recent […]
Continue reading …China has sent military vessels and warplanes to “warn off” USS Stethem, a guided-missile destroyer, that sailed near a disputed island in the South China Sea, according to Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang. “Under the pretext of ‘freedom of navigation,’ the US side once again sent a military vessel into China’s territorial waters off […]
Continue reading …Mosul (IraqiNews.com) A member of the Iraqi security forces fighting Islamic State militants in Mosul has been filmed saying he had beheaded 50 Islamic State militants, saying it was a fair payback for the group’s massacres of civilians. “FInding your brother slaughtered, or your mother slaughtered, what are you going to do?,” the man, who […]
Continue reading …Egyptian passersby east of Cairo recently noticed a young girl in her 20s wearing worn-out clothes and sleeping under the Abbasiyah bridge. They thought she was homeless, only to find out later that she hails from a wealthy family in El Mahalla. The surprise came when a passerby published a photo of the girl on […]
Continue reading …Damascus, SANA – After pursuing three car bombs, the authorities destroyed two of them at the Airport Road roundabout area in Damascus, while the third car bomb was surrounded in Bab Touma area where the suicide bomber driving it detonated it, killing and injuring a number of civilians. In a statement, the Interior Ministry said […]
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