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Iraq forces retake 3rd Tal Afar neighborhood from IS 24 Aug 2017 - 10:14 am
Peninsula
Iraqi forces advance towards heart of IS-held bastion 23 Aug 2017 - 05:56 pm
Shi'ite Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) members and Iraqi army are seen during clashes with Islamic State militants at Al Jazeera neighbourhood of Tal Afar, Iraq, August 23, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer
Two killed in mounting clashes in refugee camp in Lebanon 23 Aug 2017 - 03:13 pm
A Palestinian Fatah fighter walks through a hole in a wall inside the Ain el-Hilweh refugee camp near Sidon, southern Lebanon, August 23, 2017. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho
US defence chief in Turkey for talks on Syria, Kurds 23 Aug 2017 - 02:02 pm
Turkey's Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli and U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis review the guard of honour during a welcoming ceremony in Ankara, Turkey August 23, 2017. Baris Oral/Turkish Defense Ministry
Egypt cancels Kushner meeting with minister after US denial of aid 23 Aug 2017 - 01:02 pm
Jared Kushner (REUTERS / file photo)
US backs Iraq’s territorial integrity: Defense minister 23 Aug 2017 - 11:53 am
FILE PHOTO - US Secretary of Defense James Mattis
Airstrikes kill 50 in Syria’s Hama: Local sources 23 Aug 2017 - 11:41 am
Peninsula
Iraqi army takes 2 neighborhoods of IS-held Tal Afar 23 Aug 2017 - 10:08 am
Peninsula
Coalition raids, SDF shelling kill 78 in Syria’s Raqqah 23 Aug 2017 - 10:03 am
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US to withhold up to $290 million in aid from Egypt 22 Aug 2017 - 09:48 pm
US President Donald Trump (R) meets with Egypts President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia May 21, 2017.(Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
Iraqi forces retake two districts of IS bastion 22 Aug 2017 - 03:27 pm
Iraqi forces, backed by Shiite fighters from the Popular Mobilization Forces, advance towards the towards the city of Tal Afar, the main remaining stronghold of the Islamic State group, after the government announced the beginning of an operation to retak
Mattis in Baghdad as Iraq presses assault on IS bastion 22 Aug 2017 - 02:43 pm
U.S. Defence Minister James N. Mattis is seen during a press conference before the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Marshall Plan at the George C. Marshall Center in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, June 28, 2017. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle/File P
42 civilians dead in US-led strikes on Raqa Monday: monitor 22 Aug 2017 - 10:02 am
File Photo: AFP.
Next round of Syria talks in Astana delayed : Kazakh minister 22 Aug 2017 - 09:01 am
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Pentagon chief in Baghdad as Iraqi forces press Tal Afar assault 22 Aug 2017 - 08:56 am
Photo: AFP.
Fisherman nets message in a bottle in isolated Gaza Strip 22 Aug 2017 - 01:51 am
Soltan displays a message that was written by Bethany Wright and her boyfriend Zac Marriner, after he found it in a bottle off a Gaza beach.
Turkey, Jordan call for serious Mideast talks 22 Aug 2017 - 12:18 am
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reviews the guard of honour at the Royal Palace in Amman, Jordan, yesterday.
Lebanon foiled suicide bomb attack on Australia-Abu Dhabi flight 21 Aug 2017 - 10:51 pm
Earlier this month an Australian man was detained in Sydney during raids to disrupt what authorities described as an Islamic State-inspired plot to bomb an Etihad Airways flight.