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Iraq Premier Visits US as Forces Press anti-ISIL Assault

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi left for Washington on Sunday to meet President Donald Trump as his forces press an assault to recapture west Mosul from ISIS. The premier’s office said Abadi would also meet Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, without giving specific dates. On ...

March 19, 2017

Middle East

Iran Spares No Effort to Safeguard Ceasefire in Syria: Envoy

Iranian ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations said on Sunday that the Islamic Republic together with Russia and Turkey will spare no efforts to safeguard a ceasefire in Syria agreed last December. Gholamali Khoshroo called on the United Nations Security Council to register Iran’s statement on the peaceful ...

March 19, 2017

World

A fatally wounded US soldier is carried into a medevac helicopter by comrades in Afghanistan. (archive)

Three US Troops Wounded after Afghan Soldier Opens Fire

Three US troops were wounded on Sunday after an Afghan soldier opened fire on them at a base in the southern province of Helmand, the NATO-led Resolute Support mission said. The soldiers are receiving medical care, the NATO-led training and assistance mission said on Twitter. A spokesman for the Afghan ...

March 19, 2017

Middle East

Iraqi Airstrike Kills 6 Senior ISIL Figures in Mosul

Iraqi airstrikes have killed six senior ISIL figures in Mosul, local media said Sunday. The militants, all foreigners, included a Russian national called Abdul Karim Al Rusi who was in charge of the so called Tariq ibn Ziyad Battalion, as well as French, UK, Turkish and Moroccan nationals, the Al ...

March 19, 2017

Middle East

Syrian Army Repels Terrorist Attacks in Damascus, Frees New Areas in Palmyra

Syrian Army units regained control over the mountains chain north of al-Mazar Mountains in the northern countryside of Palmyra in eastern Homs after destroying the latest ISIL fortifications in it, SANA reported. A military source told SANA Sunday that the army continued advance towards ISIL posts east and north of ...

March 19, 2017

Middle East

Iraqi Forces Recapture Three Mosul Neighborhoods (Updated)

Iraqi government forces have managed to liberate three more neighborhoods in the country’s second largest city of Mosul as they engage in joint operations with allied fighters to expel Takfiri ISIL militants out of their last urban stronghold in the country. The commander of Nineveh Liberation Operation, Lieutenant General Abdul ...

March 19, 2017

Middle East

Zionist Entity Threatens to ‘Destroy’ Syrian Air Defense Systems

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday threatened to ‘destroy’ Syrian air defense systems after they fired ground-to-air missiles at Israeli warplanes carrying out strikes. “The next time the Syrians use their air defense systems against our planes we will destroy them without the slightest hesitation,” Lieberman said on Israeli ...

March 19, 2017

World

Germany on High Alert Amid Possible Cyberattacks

Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) is on a high alert amid potential cyberattacks on political institutions ahead of 2017 parliamentary elections, Arne Schoenbohm, the BSI head, said Sunday. Schoenbohm told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper that the BSI was “on a high alert” and offered consultations to Germany’s ...

March 19, 2017

Lebanon

Sayyed Nasrallah: Resistance Axis Triumphs

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah delivered a televised statement Saturday during a ceremony Hezbollah held commemorating the birthday of Sayyeda Fatima Al-Zahraa (as) which marks the Muslim Woman Day. His eminence saluted all the strong women who are bearing all the difficulties in this sensitive period, specifically the wives, ...

March 18, 2017

Middle East

1500 Gunmen and Their Families to Leave al-Waer Neighborhood in Homs

The first batch of gunmen and their families has started to leave al-Waer neighborhood in the western outskirts of Homs city. The move comes in the framework of implementing the reconciliation agreement that was reached in the neighborhood, paving the way for the return of all the governmental institutions to ...

March 18, 2017