
IRAQ
Daesh raids foiled south of Mosul
Iraqi security forces repel terrorist offensives against two villages south of Mosul.

Iraqi security forces repel terrorist offensives against two villages south of Mosul.

Scores of Palestinians are injured as Israeli forces attacked weekly protests in the occupied West Bank.

A bomb attack at a patrol station in eastern Saudi Arabia injures a policeman.

Bernie Sanders has criticized Democratic leaders for not spending enough time trying to help working-class people.

Some 30 ministers are sworn in as South Sudan forms a transitional unity government to end a two-year deadly conflict.

British politician and broadcaster George Galloway has said “Nazism and Zionism were two sides of the same coin.”

South Africa’s President Zuma is to face a review of charges related to a 1999 graft case.

Turkish prosecutors are set to hand down a five-year prison sentence to a British scholar on charges of making "terror propaganda" for PKK.

Extreme heat claims hundreds of lives in India, prompting officials to ban daytime cooking.

The shooting of a 13-year-old boy by Baltimore police for carrying a toy gun on Wednesday illustrates a policy of shoot to kill by law enforcement.

Tony Blair helped a Saudi oil firm break into Chinese market while he was the Middle East peace envoy, documents reveal.

A senior Iranian official urges international unity for firm combat against terrorism and extremism.

Bahraini protesters demand the immediate release of top opposition figure Sheikh Ali Salman and other political prisoners.

A study has uncovered 1,537 defects in Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor in the Negev desert, the Haaretz newspaper reports.

Portuguese taxi drivers disrupt traffic in Lisbon in protest against Uber booking app.

Syria is planning to enforce a 'regime of calm' in two major regions.

UN figures show that Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes and structures have registered a four-fold increase since the start of 2016 compared to last year.

Thirteen people have been killed after a helicopter went down off the coast of Norway.