
IRAQ
Iraqi forces 3km from Fallujah center
Iraq's counter-terrorism forces are some three kilometers away from the center of the strategic city of Fallujah, a senior military commander says.

Iraq's counter-terrorism forces are some three kilometers away from the center of the strategic city of Fallujah, a senior military commander says.

US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has held one of his final campaign rallies in Washington, DC.

At least four people are killed and 40 others wounded when an explosion rocked a mosque in eastern Afghanistan.

Iraqi sources say the leader of the Daesh terrorist group, Ibrahim al-Samarrai, also known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been wounded in an airstrike in Iraq.

An alliance of Kurdish and Arab forces cut off Daesh main supply route to Turkey amid operations to liberate the border town of Manbij.

A political analyst says the world is increasingly getting familiar with the backwardness of Saudi Arabia.

The US Navy has lifted some restrictions for its service members in Japan’s Okinawa Island.

Russia says it will respond to a recent move by the US military to deploy a destroyer, upgraded with a new missile system, to the Black Sea near Russian borders.

Kazakhstan security forces kill five terrorists suspected of being behind the Aktobe attacks.

French riot police intervenes to halt clashes between British soccer fans and locals in the French port city of Marseilles, ahead of a soccer event.

Tel Aviv’s forces temporarily bars all Palestinians from entering Israel.

Iran’s top security chief says a trilateral meeting of defense ministers in Tehran indicates that Russia, Syria and Iran are determined in countering Takfiri terrorists.

French Parliament Speaker Claude Bartolone says the Middle East will see no lasting peace without Iran’s participation.

Imprisoned Saudi human rights activist and lawyer Waleed Abulkhair goes on a hunger strike to protest his ill-treatment.

The Tel Aviv mayor calls on Israek to end the occupation of Palestinian lands, which he said was the root cause of the deadly shooting in the city.

The US calls on Israel not to punish innocent Palestinians over the recent violence in the occupied territories.

Iran, Russia and Syria hold three-way talks on the expansion of anti-terrorism cooperation.

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski wins the presidential election in Peru by a narrow margin.