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Bahrain warned against harming top cleric
Sheikh Isa Qassim’s spokesman warns that there will be consequences if the prominent Shia cleric is harmed or taken away from the people of Bahrain.

Sheikh Isa Qassim’s spokesman warns that there will be consequences if the prominent Shia cleric is harmed or taken away from the people of Bahrain.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declares a three-month state of emergency following a failed coup in the country.

Britain is doubling its deployment of troops to Iraq, says Secretary of State for Defense Michael Fallon, citing fight on Daesh terrorists.

A Palestinian family says their last goodbyes to their 12-year-old son who was shot and killed by Israel troops in the occupied West Bank.

A US federal court order benefiting the families of some victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack and others has been reversed on appeal.

An American analyst says Russia has disrupted US plans to remove President Bashar al-Assad from power in Syria.

The Ugandan army evacuates 38,000 civilians trapped by battles in South Sudan’s capital, Juba.

Thousands of demonstrators in Pakistan protest against the ongoing violence in the Indian-administered Kashmir.

Iranian forces thwart sabotage acts and arrest a group saboteurs in southeast of the country.

Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith will battle it out to lead the Labour Party after Angela Eagle dropped bid.

Israeli Minister of Military Affairs Avigdor Lieberman questions the army radio station over a recent program on a Palestinian poet.

Belgian police isolate a suspicious man in a heavy coat with wires hanging out in Brussels.

John Kerry says Daesh has lost half of the territory it once had under control in Iraq.

Iran condemns as “unacceptable” the recent French raids on a Syrian village that killed dozens of civilians.

Iran and Belgium have signed a basic agreement to promote cooperation between their two key maritime trade points – the ports of Antwerp and Bandar Abbas.

The German interior minister says the country is likely to face more terror attacks similar to a recent lone wolf assault on a train.

Human Rights Watch censures Kenya for its deadly crackdown on militants.

More than 100 Daesh terrorists are killed in airstrikes by Syrian warplanes in Hama.