Iran said on Friday that “biased” French policy was stoking crises in the Middle East after Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian accused it of “hegemonic” ambitions in the region. “Unfortunately it seems that France has a biased and partisan approach to the crises in the region and this approach, whether ...
The Iraq army said it launched an assault on Friday on the small Euphrates valley town of Rawa, the last in the country still held by the Takfiri ISIL group. “Operations to liberate Rawa began at dawn,” the Joint Operations Command said in a statement. The launch of the attack ...