More than 68,000 people have fled their homes since Iraqi forces launched a huge operation against the Takfiri ISIL group in and around Mosul last month, the UN said Tuesday. “68,550 people are currently displaced and in need of humanitarian assistance,” the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian ...
Lebanon celebrated on Tuesday the 73rd Independence anniversary with a military parade headed by President Michel Aoun. The parade, which took place at morning in the Shafiq Wazzan Boulevard, was attended by Speaker Nabih Berri, Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, caretaker Prime Minister Tammam Salam, as well as high-ranking security officials, ...