
RUSSIA
‘2,200 Russian terrorists in Syria, Iraq’
A Russian official says some 2,200 Russian nationals have joined terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq.

A Russian official says some 2,200 Russian nationals have joined terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq.

Iranians are commemorating the anniversary of the martyrdom of the first Shia Imam, Imam Ali.

At least four people are killed in rocket attacks by terrorists in the southwestern Syrian city of Dara’a.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest says the longer review period of Iran deal by Congress won’t matter.

Kurdish authorities have imposed a one-week curfew on recaptured territories from ISIL in northern Syria.

Forty-five ISIL terrorists have been killed by deliberately-poisoned food, while dozens others have been taken to hospital.

French Special Forces kill an alleged al-Qaeda-linked commander in Mali who was released in a prisoner exchange deal for a French hostage last December.

Greece has submitted a proposal to the EU while waiting for its final summit on Sunday.

The US Army is poised to lay off nearly 60,000 of its staffers over the next two years to save money, a report says.

President Rouhani praises the country’s negotiators as Araqchi says the main text of the agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program is almost complete.

Israeli lawmakers vote to continue pursuing a bill to allow force-feeding of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike.

A terrorist bomb attack has killed four people at a military checkpoint in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno.

The Tripoli-based Libyan parliament rejects a UN proposal to settle the nation’s political crisis but urges more talks to come to terms with its rival assembly in eastern Libya.

Two people die after a US F-16 collides with a civilian aircraft over South Carolina

Afghan officials say the second-in-command of the ISIL terrorist group in Afghanistan has been killed.

Over 40 Yemeni troops are killed in a Saudi airstrike on a military base in the country’s Hadhramaut province.

The United States true motive in its “phony” war on ISIL is to create “warring statelets” in Syria and Iraq to “better control” them, a senior analyst says.

One person has been killed in an ISIL bomb attack on a Shia mosque in Yemen's capital Sana’a.