Tikrit (Iraq) (AFP) - Iraqi forces on Wednesday picked through the rubble-strewn streets of Tikrit after storming to the city centre, searching for diehard jihadist fighters and avoiding the booby traps they left behind./ Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi claimed the city was liberated but the ...
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Tuesday declared the "liberation" of Tikrit from the Islamic State group, after a weeks-long operation that was Baghdad's biggest yet against the jihadists./ Abadi "announces the liberation of Tikrit and congratulates Iraqi security forces and popular volunteers ...
Kirkuk (Iraq) (AFP) - Iraqi forces have retaken the Salaheddin provincial government headquarters in Tikrit from the Islamic State jihadist group, a significant advance in the battle to recapture the city, officials said Tuesday./ The spokesman for the Badr militia said members of the Popular ...
In this picture taken on March 29, 2015, and released by the semi-official Iranian Fars News Agency, a group of mourners carry the flag-draped coffin of Ali Yazdani, a member of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, whom the Guard says was killed during a U.S. drone strike near the Iraqi city of Tikrit./ ...
9 Reaper drone takes off from Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan on March 13, 2009 (AFP Photo/James Lee Harper Jr.)/ Tehran (AFP) - Two Iranian Revolutionary Guardsmen were killed by a US drone in the Iraqi city of Tikrit, Iranian state media said Monday, in a report that was denied by the Pentagon ...
In a curiously timed allegation coming on the eve of a key deadline for nuclear talks, Iran's Revolutionary Guard on Monday claimed a U.S. drone strike killed two of its advisers in Iraq -- an allegation the U.S. disputed. "We are looking into this, like we do all claims, but we don't think we ...
Iraqi security forces attack Islamic State extremists in the streets of Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq./ Iran's Revolutionary Guard says a U.S. drone strike has killed two of its advisers in Iraq, though the U.S. said Monday it has only struck militants in its campaign against the ...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iran's Revolution Guard says a U.S. drone strike has killed two of its advisers in Iraq, though the U.S. said Monday it has only struck militants in its campaign against the Islamic State group. The claim came as negotiators on Monday attempted to reach a deal on Iran's contested ...
The World Food Programme said the report “paints a stark picture of ongoing hunger” in Gaza/ A UN-backed assessment says almost half a million Palestinians across Gaza are still facing “catastrophic levels” of hunger and that a “high risk” of famine persists as long as the Israel-Hamas war ...
The number of Cybertrucks sold comes via a NHTSA recall notice for the brutish truck's massive windshield wiper./ ) announced another recall for its Cybertruck — its fourth since its release late last year. But perhaps the real headline from the announcement? Within the recall notice, there's a ...
U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo speaks at the Royal United Services Institute in London/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on nearly 50 entities and people it accused of moving billions of dollars for Iran's military. The U.S. Treasury Department ...
The ruling means that potentially tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox men could now face the draft/ Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled in a landmark case that ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students must be drafted to the military. There have been long-standing exemptions for conscription for ...
63 year old Steve from Herfordshire, is working with charity Rethink to raise awareness over the state of mental health services (Steve Wright )/ was told by A&E staff she was not a priority despite being so unwell she was catatonic. Steve, a 63-year-old from Hertfordshire, has been supporting ...
Heartbreaking last text from mum before Hajj heat death/ A US couple who died during the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia were walking for over two hours in scorching temperatures before they succumbed to heat stroke, their daughter has told the BBC. Alhaji Alieu Dausy Wurie, 71, and Haja Isatu ...
Vachris is the third CEO to hold the title of CEO at Costco, within the company’s 41 years of operation, having reportedly started out as a 17-year-old forklift driver for Price Club, which ultimately merged with Costco. According to the company’s site, Vachris is a Costco veteran who, during ...
North Dakota Sen. Ray Holmberg, R-Grand Forks, speaks on the Senate floor at the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D., in November 2021. The former North Dakota lawmaker who was one of the most powerful members of the Legislature has signed a plea agreement with federal prosecutors on a charge that ...
In this image provided by the U.S. Army, soldiers, from the 3rd Battalion, 321st Field Artillery Regiment of the 18th Field Artillery Brigade out of Fort Bragg N.C., conduct live fire testing at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., on Dec. 14, 2021, of early versions of the Army Tactical Missile ...
Many Palestinians have escaped fighting in Rafah by fleeing to nearby Khan Younis/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the "intense phase" of fighting in Rafah in southern Gaza is nearly over, but that this does not mean that the war is coming to an end. He said the war would ...