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Daesh fight far from over: Carter
US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter says the US-led alliance against Daesh has to do more to destroy the group.

US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter says the US-led alliance against Daesh has to do more to destroy the group.

Junior Iranian chess player Masoud Mosadeghpour shines at Asian Junior Open & Girls Chess Championships 2016 in India.

The Israeli premier says Tel Aviv will boost ties with NATO and open a mission at the bloc’s headquarters.

Foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates are set to participate in talks over Syria in France next week.

Iranian deaf cadet freestyle wrestlers stand at the crest of the 2016 World Deaf Wrestling Cadet and Junior Freestyle Championship.

Egyptian police cordon off the Syndicate of Journalists in Cairo.

Israeli forces fire artillery shells at Hamas military towers in the blockaded Gaza Strip.

Hundreds of protesters have joined five hunger strikers in San Francisco, California, to demand an end to police brutality.

Indonesia is to resume execution of drug convicts heedless of global outrage.

Iran's Tractor Sazi Tabriz football team has gone down to Al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia in a Group C fixture of the AFC Champions League.

Republican presidential candidate Trump says Israel should continue settlement construction across the West Bank.

Russia says it will add three new military divisions to its borders to counter NATO.

Dozens of people are killed in fierce clashes between Syrian forces and foreign-backed militants in Syria’s Aleppo.

Turkey’s president pushes a meeting with his prime minister forward by a day amid increasingly-visible tensions between the two.

Riot police forces clash with demonstrators protesting against proposed labor reforms across France.

Iranian and German companies have inked some MoUs on natural gas and oil cooperation.

The UK’s claim that the Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen has not violated international humanitarian law is “deeply disappointing,” a group of lawmakers say.

Turkey says Daesh militants must immediately be pushed back from an area in Syria near its border.