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U.S. applauds Iraq`s announcement of full liberation of territory from IS

U.S. State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert on Saturday hailed the Iraqi government`s earlier announcement of ...

Philippine military says high-ranking Abu Sayyaf member killed

Philippine government troops have killed a senior member of the Abu Sayyaf rebel group instrumental in a spree of ...

Al Assad keen on closer military cooperation with Russia

Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, received on Saturday Russia's Defense Minister, Sergey Kuzhugetovich Shoygu, who ...

African Union warns of new plot by Al-Shabaab to shame troops

Top African Union envoy in Somalia Francisco Madeira on Wednesday warned of new plot by the Islamist militants, ...

UN Chief slams deadly attack in central Mali

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Saturday condemned an attack in Sevare, a town in central Mali, which led to ...

Ukrainian journalist killed in shelling despite ceasefire

Serhiy Nikolayev, a Ukrainian journalist, was killed by shelling in east Ukraine on Saturday, his newspaper said, even ...

Two car bombings kill 40 in central Yemen

Two car bomb explosions targeting Shiite Houthi gunmen killed 40 people and left dozens wounded in Yemens central ...

Syrian troops repel rebels` attack on Aleppo`s central prison

The Syrian troops repelled Thursday rebels attack against the central prison of the country s northern province of ...

France calls for immediate release of two French journalists in Syria

French President Francois Hollande on Friday demanded the immediate release of two French journalists missing in ...

Syria urges rebels to lay down weapons

The Syrian government on Sunday urged the armed militant groups across the country to be "rational " and lay down ...

White house says "no evidence" of chemical weapons use by Syrian rebels

The White House said on Tuesday that "no evidence" shows that the Syrian rebels have used chemical weapons in their ...

Nearly 90% of Syria conflict dead killed in 2012

Nearly 90 percent of those who have died in Syria`s 21-month conflict were killed in 2012, the Syrian Observatory for ...

3 bomb explosions kill 7 in Syria`s southern province

Three car bombs went off in the southern province of Daraa early Saturday, killing at least seven people and causing ...

25,000 displaced by latest unrest in Sudan`s Darfur: UN

The United Nations said Friday that 25,000 people have been displaced in Sudan`s Darfur region after unrest that began ...

Russia calls situation in Syria "emergency"

Russia changed the status of situation in Syria from "complicated" to "emergency" on Tuesday as the crisis in the ...