The Independent Bethan McKernan 13 July 2017 Isis has been driven from its de facto Iraqi capital of Mosul, leading Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to declare that one half of Isis’ so-called caliphate has fallen. The organisation now holds on to just nine per cent of the territory it controlled ... Read More »
كانون الأول 26, 2015 Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 28, said to have met up with British jihadists to seek “logistical support” from extremists The mastermind behind the Paris terror attacks is said to have slipped into Britain on a false passport just months before the atrocity that killed 130 people. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 28, ... Read More »
كانون الأول 26, 2015 A tornado struck Birmingham, Alabama, on Friday, damaging houses, uprooting trees and injuring at least three people in the state’s largest city, law enforcement and weather officials said. National Weather Service meteorologist Jody Aaron said the twister was confirmed to have touched down in the southwestern portion ... Read More »
كانون الأول 18, 2015 BEIRUT: Prime Minister Tammam Salam will convene a Cabinet meeting to discuss an export solution to the trash crisis “within days,” a senior aide told The Daily Star Thursday. Salam chaired at the Grand Serail a meeting of a ministerial committee tasked with arranging the particulars for ... Read More »
كانون الأول 17, 2015 EU leaders gather in Brussels on Thursday for a two-day summit which will be dominated by the refugee crisis and Britain’s planned referendum on EU membership, as European Council president Donald Tusk seeks to wrap up negotiations with London on its EU renegotiation bid by February. Taoiseach ... Read More »
كانون الأول 17, 2015 PARIS — The authorities in Belgium said on Wednesday that one of the Paris attackers may have been holed up in a house in Brussels two nights after 130 people were killed and hundreds more injured — but that he could have escaped because of a law ... Read More »
كانون الأول 17, 2015 The United States has delivered a fresh supply of ammunition to Syrian Arab fighters ahead of an expected stiff battle with Islamic State as they push toward the Syrian town of al-Shadadi, a key logistics hub for the group, U.S. officials tell Reuters. The munitions were shipped ... Read More »
كانون الأول 15, 2015 German chancellor Angela Merkel challenged internal party critics of her liberal refugee policy on Monday, warning that cowards and pessimists had no place in her Christian Democratic Union (CDU). In a barnstorming party conference speech, which received a 10-minute standing ovation, the CDU leader conceded the refugee ... Read More »
كانون الأول 15, 2015 Barack Obama sought to reassert himself as commander-in-chief on Monday, standing with military top brass at the Pentagon and warning leaders of Islamic State: “You are next.” The blunt tone, with its echoes of President George W Bush’s reference to “Wanted, dead or alive” posters in the ... Read More »
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