Saudi Arabia has congratulated Lebanon’s new President Michel Aoun on his election, the official Saudi Press Agency reported late Tuesday. King Salman telephoned Aoun to wish him success, “stressing the kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s support for Lebanon and its unity”, according to SPA. Lebanese lawmakers elected the 81-year-old former army ...
Members of the Iraqi army’s elite forces, the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS), have recaptured a village and a television station on the edge of Mosul, in their latest push to liberate the northern city from the grip of ISIL terrorists. “We finished clearing Gogjali and took control of the Mosul television ...