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Iraq volunteers to help Syria fight terror
A coalition of Iraqi volunteer fighters are to cross into Syria to fight alongside the Damascus government against terror.

A coalition of Iraqi volunteer fighters are to cross into Syria to fight alongside the Damascus government against terror.

The 44th flotilla of the Iranian Navy docks at Tanzania’s Port city of Dar es Salaam.

A former US senator says the use of exaggeration tactics in the US presidential election campaign is showing embarrassing craziness of American politics.

A political expert says US claims that there are moderate militants in Syria are "meaningless".

Icelander are voting in a snap elections expected to see Pirate Party form a new center-left coalition.

Back in June, rights groups had urged the UN to immediately suspend Saudi Arabia’s membership of the Human Rights Council due to its appalling rights record.

Donald Trump ejected a black man waving a note at him at a North Carolina rally, after accusing him of being a “thug” hired by Democrats.

Iranian handball club Shahrdari Sanandaj suffers its 2nd defeat in the first edition of Asian Women's Handball Club League Championship in Kazakhstan.

Two Indian soldiers are reported dead after a militant ambush near the disputed Kashmir frontier.

The offensive, during which barrages of rockets are being fired and car bomb attacks are being carried out, have killed at least 15 civilians, and 18 security forces so far.

Iranian President Rouhani tells the EU’s High Representative Mogherini that the Syrian conflict has no military solution.

Three Iranian football players have joined the Indonesian Pusamania Borneo Football Club.

A senior Iranian commander hails the anti-Israeli resistance front in regional countries such as Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon.

Rights groups demand an independent probe into reports that Myanmar forces are killing, raping and torturing Rohingya Muslims.

Iranian rowers get two silver medals at the 2016 Asian Rowing Indoor Championships in Thailand.

The next of kin of the victims of a 2010 Israeli raid on a Turkish aid ship say they will not drop the cases against former Israeli officials liable for the attack.

Hashd al-Shaabi fighters are now targeting Daesh in Mosul from the city’s west.

French police discontent was fueled by the October 8 incident in Viry-Chatillon near Paris, where a gang petrol-bombed four cops in a patrol car.