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Turkey reissues travel warning for Iraq over Mosul operation

Turkey has urged its citizens to be careful when traveling to Iraq after the operation to retake Mosul from ISIL Takfiri group started on Monday. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said it was warning Turkish citizens once again against traveling to Iraq as the operation to retake Mosul from ...

October 19, 2016

Lebanon

Hezbollah Bids Farewell to Martyrs Hmede & Affe

Hezbollah and crowds bade on Tuesday farewell to two of his martyrs, commander Hatem Hmede and mujahid Jalal Affe, in Beirut’s Dahiyeh where they were laid to rest in Rawdat Shahidayn cemetery. Commander Hmede and mujahid Affe embraced martyrdom while fighting the terrorist groups in Syria. Hezbollah official Sheikh Mohammad ...

October 18, 2016

Middle East

Syrian Army Strikes Terrorists across Country

Syrian Army and armed forces units, backed by the army air force, on Tuesday inflicted heavy losses upon the Takfiri terrorist organizations in operations carried out in different areas across the country as scores of terrorists were killed and their arms and equipment were destroyed. Hama The Syrian army air ...

October 18, 2016

Lebanon

Lebanese Army: Arrested ISIL Terrorist Admits Killing People, Planning to Target Tourism Spots

Lebanese Army Command’s Guidance Directorate on Tuesday issued a statement saying that the army intelligence directorate referred ISIL Emir terrorist Imad Yassine to the competent judiciary for killing four persons and being involved in killing four of others, executing five explosions in Ain Al Helwe Camp, forming a terrorist organization ...

October 18, 2016

Middle East

Syrian Army Command Warns Terrorists Attempting to Flee Mosul into Syria

The General Command of the Syrian Army and the Armed Forces said the supporters of international terrorism are trying to secure safe routes and corridors for the ISIL terrorists who are fleeing Iraq’s Mosul to cross into Syria. In a statement on Tuesday, the Command said a “malicious scheme” by ...

October 18, 2016

World

Fierce Fighting in Key Somali Town Close to Mogadishu

Fighting between Somali troops and Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab fighters was ongoing Tuesday in the key city of Afgoye, some 30 kilometers (18 miles) northwest of the capital Mogadishu, a security source and a witness said. “Fierce fighting is taking place in several bases in Afgoye, one of which came under attack ...

October 18, 2016

Middle East

Iraqi Forces Make Gains in Push to Retake ISIL-held Mosul

Iraqi forces were making gains as tens of thousands of fighters advanced on Mosul Tuesday in an unprecedented offensive to retake the city from the ISIL group. With the crucial battle in its second day, Iraqi commanders said progress was being made as fighters pushed on two main fronts against ...

October 18, 2016

World

Battle for Mosul Could Take ‘Months’: French Minister

French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned Tuesday that the battle to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIL group could take “months”. “It could be a long battle, it’s not a blitzkrieg… It’s a lengthy affair (lasting) several weeks, maybe months,” he told reporters in Paris a day ...

October 18, 2016

World

Russian, Syrian Air Forces Cease Airstrikes in Aleppo at 0700 GMT Tuesday – Defense Minister Shoigu

The Russian and Syrian air forces halted strikes in Aleppo on Tuesday for a 48-hour humanitarian pause, Russia’s defense minister announced. The ceasefire comes ahead of schedule. The Russian military said earlier that it would halt airstrikes on Thursday, but on Tuesday Sergey Shoigu announced that the ceasefire would be ...

October 18, 2016

World

Ukraine President ‘Not Optimistic’ about Berlin Summit

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Tuesday he did not have “very high expectations” ahead of a Berlin summit called to discuss peace efforts in his country. “Let’s not have very high expectations on this meeting,” Poroshenko told a joint press conference with Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg in Oslo. “Am ...

October 18, 2016