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US-backed force pierces into IS-held Raqa from west - 06/10/2017

Beirut, Lebanon | AFP | A US-backed alliance broke into the western part of the Islamic State group's stronghold Raqa on Saturday, the force and a monitor said, opening up a second front inside the...

US forces back Philippine troops in Islamist held city - 06/10/2017

Marawi, Philippines | AFP | United States special forces are providing support to the Philippine military battling to dislodge Islamist militants in a southern city, the US embassy said Saturday,...

Spanish police seize property worth£590m from Assad family - 06/07/2017

Madrid - Police raided 15 properties belonging to the President Assad’s uncle, Rifaat al-Assad, and some of his children, as part of a money laundering investigation .   Judge José de la Mata...

Philippine lawmaker appeals for ICC probe into drug war - 06/06/2017

The Hague, Netherlands | AFP | A Philippine lawmaker on Tuesday appealed to the International Criminal Court to urgently probe thousands of killings in President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs,...

Qatar: lingering accusations of ties to extremism - 06/05/2017

Doha, Qatar | AFP | Five Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt, pulled their ambassadors and suspended flights to Qatar on Monday in an escalating diplomatic crisis.   Qatar...

Bahrain minister briefly hacked after Qatar cyber attack - 06/03/2017

Dubai, United Arab Emirates | AFP | Hackers temporarily took over the Twitter account of the Bahraini foreign minister on Saturday, just 10 days after a cyber attack on the official news agency of...

Turkey detains PM's advisor over alleged Gulen links - 06/03/2017

Ankara, Turkey | AFP | Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim's chief adviser was detained Saturday over suspected links to the movement of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen blamed for last...

Britain’s brutal encounter with reality - 05/31/2017

NINE tumultuous months after Britons voted to leave the European Union, the real Brexit process is at last under way. Theresa May’s dispatch of a letter to the European Council on March 29th,...

Syrian hospital saves lives by going solar - 05/31/2017

BEIRUT, LEBANON- Neo-natal wards and emergency rooms in a northern Syrian hospital will from Tuesday have uninterrupted electricity for the first time in years thanks to new solar panels, a charity...

Trump and Merkel 'get along very well': White House - 05/30/2017

Washington, United States | AFP | The White House poured cold water on suggestions of a transatlantic rift Tuesday, saying US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel "get along...
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