
IRAQ
Iraqis return to liberated Tikrit
Displaced resident of Tikrit begin returning to the Iraqi city months after its liberation from ISIL grip.

Displaced resident of Tikrit begin returning to the Iraqi city months after its liberation from ISIL grip.

Iran is not worried about the market for the sale of its oil when it raises output in the event of a nuclear deal, Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh has said.

Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and a number of other veteran diplomats have called for major changes to the United Nations.

At least 18 people have been killed and 98 injured in a train crash south of the Tunisian capital of Tunis.

Internal investigators have cleared US Border Patrol agents in 64 shooting incidents, a report says.

An Egyptian court sentences ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, to life in prison over spying.

Some 250,000 children face starvation in South Sudan, UN says.

ISIL recruiters in Australia are reportedly enticing needy teens to join the ranks of the terror group operating in the Middle East.

Sen. Corker, who called on Obama to stop the nuclear negotiations with Iran, has been motivated by Israel, says an analyst.

Israeli troops uproot dozens of Palestinian olive trees in the Occupied West Bank.

Russia says more than 400 Chechens have left for Syria to join ISIL militants.

A militant group in Libya denies reports that a senior al-Qaeda commander was killed in a US airstrike.

The United Arab Emirates insists that it will continue with infrastructure investments despite the recent decline in international oil prices.

Two Iranian students will take the Norwegian government to court over alleged nuclear education claims.

Bahrain sentences prominent Shia cleric and opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, to four years in jail.

Bangladesh’s Supreme Court upholds the death sentence for a top Jamaat-e-Islami party leader.

Saudi military aircraft reportedly use internationally banned cluster bombs in its fresh airstrikes against two Yemeni provinces./

South Korea reports three more deaths from the fatal MERS infection.