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‘Haftar’s forces must leave Libya oil ports’
The US and European states say Libya’s oil port must remain under the authority of its UN-backed unity government.

The US and European states say Libya’s oil port must remain under the authority of its UN-backed unity government.

Iran threatened to shoot down US Navy EP-3 and P-8 aircraft over the weekend as they were flying in the northern Persian Gulf, a US military official claims.

The changed scenario after the removal of the sanctions has prompted Iran and Pakistan to give a fresh impetus to their trade ties.

An Amatrice official says Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons were “senseless and inconceivable insult” to the quake victims and survivors.

The PKK leader invites the Turkish government to negotiate an end to the conflict between his group and Ankara.

Duterte says the presence of US special forces in the southern Philippines complicates anti-militancy operations there.

The intruding Israeli aircraft were targeted with surface-to-air missiles, according to the Syrian military.

Militant groups issue a strongly-worded statement to criticize the terms of the ceasefire agreement.

Iranian Paralympic athletes collect four more medals at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

It seems that the United States has decided to discard the terrorist group in favor of other militant outfits in Syria, an analyst says.

The Islamic Center of Fort Pierce in Florida is targeted in an arson attack.

Eduardo Cunha is known as the architect of the impeachment drive against former president Dilma Rousseff.

Israeli military forces attack the northern part of the occupied West Bank, injuring four Palestinians.

Rioting prisoners set a building ablaze inside a prison in west-central France.

Two American bombers fly over South Korea in show of force against the North.

A top US official says these people have been publicly charged in federal courts on counts related to the terror group since 2013.

Israel says its jets have targeted Syrian military positions in Syria’s Golan Heights in retaliation for Syrian fire crossing into the northern Golan Heights.

The United States killed Osama bin Laden in order to keep the 9/11 facts hidden, an American analyst says.