The US Pentagon said on Thursday that the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group is making a last stand in the Libyan port city of Sirte, controlling only 50 buildings across two blocks, in what was previously labeled its stronghold. “It’s a stubborn area,” Pentagon ...
Iranian lawmakers drafted a bill on Friday to ban import of consumer goods from the United States in response to the extension of US sanctions against Tehran by 10 years more. On Thursday, the US Senate voted unanimously to prolong the 1979 sanctions against Tehran by another 10 years after ...