Islamic State frees Mosul prisoners as grip on last major city slips
Iraqi rapid response members are seen as they try to avoid being hit by Islamic State snipers in western Mosul, Iraq March 9, 2017. REUTERS photo Islamic State has released…
Iraqi rapid response members are seen as they try to avoid being hit by Islamic State snipers in western Mosul, Iraq March 9, 2017. REUTERS photo Islamic State has released…
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he yet to see “anything concrete” from U.S. President Donald Trump over his vow to defeat Islamic State and called U.S.…
Syrian state news agency Sana said the attack had caused fatalities but gave no toll. It said the explosions were caused by “two terrorist bombs” A double bomb attack targeting…
Syrian Democratic Forces fighters hold up their weapons in the north of Raqqa city, Syria US-backed Syrian militias said on Friday they were strong enough to seize Raqqa from Islamic…
The United Nations headquarters building in New York About 2,000 people were killed and entire neighbourhoods razed in south-eastern Turkey in 18 months of government security operations characterised by massive…
File photo: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends the 34th session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, February 27, 2017 U.S.…
Turkish military vehicles drive east of al-Bab town, Syria March 9, 2017 The Turkish military said on Friday 71 members of a Kurdish militia had been killed in Syria in…
A helicopter carrying high-level business executives crashed onto a Turkish highway on Friday, killing five people on board, after it hit a television tower in an outlying district of Istanbul,…
Iraqi rapid response members move from house to house through a hole in a wall to avoid being hit by Islamic State snipers in western Mosul Iraqi forces aim to…
German Chancellor Merkel reacts in Berlin Chancellor Angela Merkel told Turkey to stop invoking Berlin’s Nazi past in criticising cancellations of Turkish ministers’ rallies in Germany, and said she would…