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October 24, 2016

Iraqi forces take another 9 villages northeast of Mosul

Iraqi forces recaptured nine villages north east of Mosul on a wide-ranging military campaign to retake the city from the Daesh terrorist group, according to a statement from the...

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October 24, 2016

Turkey’s ruling party has completed proposal on presidency, PM says

Turkey’s ruling AK Party has finished working on its proposal for a constitutional change to create an executive presidency and is now ready to submit it to parliament, Prime...

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October 24, 2016

Suicide car bomb rocks Mogadishu

At least one person died and two others were injured in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday when a car exploded near a camp for displaced people, police said....

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October 23, 2016

UK takes in child refugees ahead of Calais camp closure

Around 70 children from the so-called Calais “Jungle” have arrived in the UK ahead of Monday’s expected closure of the makeshift migrant camp in northern France. The children arrived...

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October 23, 2016

‘Teddy Bear’ protest in London against attacks in Aleppo

Hundreds gathered in London’s Whitehall to call on the Government to do more to end civilian deaths in the Syrian conflict. They said the teddy bears represented the thousands...

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October 23, 2016

Daesh snipers turn Kirkuk into ghost city

Daesh snipers have turned Iraq’s northern city of Kirkuk into a ghost city amid an ongoing operation to oust the militant group from the city of Mosul. Street-to-street fighting...

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October 23, 2016

South Sudan’s rebel leader ‘wants peace deal revived’

Riek Machar, South Sudan’s ex-First Vice President-turned-rebel leader who fled the country two months ago, has told Anadolu Agency there is need for a process to revive the peace...

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October 23, 2016

Israel arrests 19 in Jerusalem, closes West Bank

Israeli police have arrested 19 Palestinians during overnight raids in the occupied West Bank as the military closed off the occupied Palestinian territories ahead of a Jewish holiday starting...

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October 23, 2016

Egypt suspends TV anchor for calling Morsi ‘Mr President’

Egyptian authorities have suspended a TV anchor for describing ousted president Mohamed Morsi as “Mr President” during a news bulletin. Mona Shukri was suspended and referred to a disciplinary...

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October 23, 2016

Syrian city runs out of space to bury the dead

Syrians in the opposition-held city of Douma are being forced to bury their dead in multi-layered graveyards as years of conflict make it impossible to plan new cemeteries. Douma,...

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