
IRAQ
ISIL bans Eid prayers in Iraq’s Mosul
Residents in the militant-held northern Iraqi city of Mosul have been banned from performing Eid al-Fitr prayers.

Residents in the militant-held northern Iraqi city of Mosul have been banned from performing Eid al-Fitr prayers.

At least 12 members of the ISIL terrorist group are killed by Iraqi troops in Anbar province.

Celebrated Egyptian actor Omar Sharif has died of a heart attack in Cairo at the age of 83.

The head of the Office of Personnel Management, Katherine Archuleta, resigns in the wake of two hack attacks against the agency.

A fresh US drone strike has killed at least four suspected al-Qaeda militants in the southern Yemeni city of Mukalla.

Saudi warplanes attack a number of areas across Yemen, violating a UN-sponsored ceasefire that came into effect minutes earlier.

UN experts say over 5,000 Tunisians have joined the ranks of the Takfiri ISIL terrorist group in recent years.

Political activist Don DeBar says Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will do everything against Iran.

Yemeni forces destroy a Saudi tank and four armored vehicles in the Saudi province of Jizan.

2000 migrants died out of 150,000 crossing the Mediterranean Sea into the European Union countries in 2015.

John Kerry says progress has been made in intense negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 on Tehran’s nuclear energy program.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Iran and the six world powers would reach a “compromise” in the near future.

India and Pakistan are to join Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Russia’s Putin says.

Hundreds of people take to the streets of London to condemn Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands on International Quds Day.

The European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank review Greece's latest reform package.

An airstrike in Egypt’s northern Sinai Peninsula leaves five people from one family dead.

One in four girls in the US will experience some form of sexual violence before the age of 18, a new study has found.

At least two people are killed in a Saudi airstrike on a German aid convoy in Yemen’s northwest.