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Iraqi army captures 24 ISIL militants
Iraqi army forces capture 24 ISIL militants in the northern province of Salahuddin.

Iraqi army forces capture 24 ISIL militants in the northern province of Salahuddin.

The Syrian army targets the foreign-sponsored militants in the northeastern province of Hasakah.

Over a dozen people die due to a heat wave in Pakistan’s Sindh Province.

Afghan teachers go on strike to demand higher salaries and better working conditions.

An Egyptian court sentences 12 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood movement to two years in prison.

Six Singaporean primary school students on an excursion into a mountainous region of Malaysia died in a recent quake that hit the region.

Militant mortar attacks injure 17 civilians near Syria’s capital, Damascus, and the northern city of Aleppo.

A second Iranian ship carrying humanitarian aid for the Yemeni people sets sail for the war-torn Arab country.

Food banks across the US state of New York are running out of food due to rising need and falling benefits.

Iran's oil minister says price of gasoline will see no further rise in coming months

At least 44 people are killed in the latest Saudi airstrikes against several locations in Yemen’s capital, Sana’a.

Iran offers condolences to Ghana over the death of nearly 200 people in flooding and a blast in the capital.

Oil industry analysts say despite fears about growing influence of US shale oil, OPEC is still the main player in international oil market.

A senior Iranian official says national unity in Iraq is the key to the termination of the crisis in the Arab country.

A report says the plight of the Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar continues “apace.”

Luxembourgers are to vote in a referendum on extending voting rights to foreigners and to people aged between 16 and 18.

The agenda of the “maniac” neoconservatives is to provoke a global war with Russian President Vladimir Putin, says a writer and investigative journalist.

Violence in Mexico leaves 10 people dead ahead of mid-term elections in the country.