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ISIL Leader’s Death to Facilitate Liberation of Raqqa: Russian Senator

The alleged death of ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a Russian Aerospace Forces strike could help facilitate the liberation of its stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria, a senior Russian senator told Sputnik. The Russian Defense Ministry said Friday its attack and multirole aircraft may have killed Baghdadi on ...

June 16, 2017

Middle East

Arrests in Egypt as Opposition Calls for Islands Protest

Egyptian police have arrested dozens of activists in the face of opposition calls for protests on Friday after parliament passed a controversial agreement to hand over two islands to Saudi Arabia. A lawyer working to release the activists said about 50 had been arrested across Egypt since parliament passed the ...

June 16, 2017

Middle East

Iran Dismantles Terrorist Group in Southeastern Province

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has dismantled a Takfiri terrorist group in the southeastern province of Sistan-and-Baluchestan, killing and wounding a number of the terrorists. The IRGC’s Qods Headquarters dispatched its units to Qasr-e Qand town after obtaining information about the presence of a Takfiri terrorist group in the ...

June 16, 2017

Middle East

Russia Says an Airstrike near Raqqa May Have Killed ISIL Leader Baghdadi

Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Friday it was checking information that a Russian air strike near the Syrian city of Raqqa may have killed ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in late May, Russian news agencies reported. The air strike, targeted a meeting of ISIL leaders and was carried out on ...

June 16, 2017

World

Australia Announces First Gun Amnesty in Decades after Series of Terror Attacks

Australia’s Justice Ministry announced Friday a firearms amnesty after a series of terror attacks involving illegal guns left several people dead and many injured. “Our national security environment has deteriorated. Unfortunately, we have seen through terror attacks in Australia that illegal guns have been used,” Justice Minister Michael Keenan said. ...

June 16, 2017

World

Putin Says Russia to Beef up Syrian Military

Russia’s medium-term plans in Syria include improving the capabilities of the Syrian armed forces which would allow Russian troops to relocate to existing Russian bases in the country, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday. “We aim to establish a process, a political settlement [in Syria] between all the sides involved,” Putin ...

June 16, 2017

Middle East

Egyptians Protest Plan to Cede Islands to Saudi

Egyptians continue to take to the streets against the parliament’s recent approval of a controversial plan to transfer the sovereignty of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, even after police arrested dozens of activists who had called for mass protests. Egyptian police raided homes in the capital, Cairo, and ...

June 16, 2017

Middle East

Iraqi Army Advances in Western Mosul

The Iraqi army managed on Thursday to liberate Bab Sinjar neighborhood in western Mosul from ISIL terrorists, raising the national flag over its buildings, according to a statement issued by the military media. The statement added that the forces were deployed next to Farouq neighborhood in preparation for storming it.

June 15, 2017

Middle East

Syrian Army Destroys ISIL Positions in Deir Ezzor, Kills Many Terrorists

The Syrian Army Air Force and Artillery on Thursday targeted ISIL positions and fortifications in the surroundings of the Panorama, the Airport, the Cemeteries and al-Thardeh, and the neighborhoods of al-Ummal, the Old Airport, al-Howeiqa and al-Rashdiyeh, al-Taim Badia, Howeijet Saqer, in the surroundings of Talet Brouk, and in the ...

June 15, 2017

Opinion

Human Cost of the Qatar Crisis: ‘Families Are Being Torn Apart’

At the office of Qatar’s national human rights committee, those most affected by the week-long Saudi-led blockade against the tiny emirate come each evening to seek help, clutching their documents. Many have been directly affected by the decision announced by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates last week ...

June 15, 2017