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 ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the strike which killed scores of displaced Palestinians in Rafah on Sunday was a "tragic mishap", amid growing international condemnation of the blast. At least 45 people were killed according to the Hamas-run health ministry. Hundreds more were ...
Pope Francis holds the weekly general audience at the Vatican/ VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis used a highly derogatory term towards the LGBT community as he reiterated in a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops that gay people should not be allowed to become priests, Italian media ...
An Egyptian soldier has been killed in an incident involving Egyptian and Israeli troops in the border area near Rafah. The Egyptian and Israeli militaries are investigating what happened. Israeli media say there was an exchange of fire, but there are few other details and no reports of Israeli ...
A Massachusetts man who was left hospitalized with serious injuries after he was in Wyoming is speaking out about the violent encounter. The 35-year-old Army veteran from South Hadley, identified by the as Shayne Patrick Burke, says he’s been shot at, mortared, and experienced explosions from ...
drew ire over Memorial Day weekend with a post about sacrifice on X, formerly Twitter. Former President Donald Trump’s son shared another user’s post which featured a photo of the Trump family and the claim that they’d given up “everything to Save America.”/ The image featured Donald Trump and ...
Johnny Wactor, known for his role on "General Hospital," was killed in downtown Los Angeles early Saturday, according to a law enforcement source./ "General Hospital" actor Johnny Wactor was fatally shot early Saturday when he came upon three men trying to steal the catalytic converter from his ...
The plane was met by emergency services at Dublin Airport on Sunday/ Twelve people have been injured due to turbulence on a flight from Doha to Dublin. The Boeing 787-9 dreamliner experienced turbulence while airborne over Turkey, Dublin Airport's operator DAA said. Upon landing shortly before ...
At least 15 people have died, including two children, in and leaving hundreds of thousands of residents without power during potentially record-breaking heat. In Texas, multiple tornados were reported throughout the state with one plowing through Cooke County – approximately 50 miles north of ...
Hamas says it fired rockets at central Israel for the first time in 4 months/ Hamas says it has launched a "big" rocket attack at the Tel Aviv area in central Israel. At least eight rockets were launched from the Rafah area in southern Gaza, the Israeli military said, adding that several were ...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A 60-year-old woman saw her dreams of becoming the oldest Miss Universe contestant in history melt away in a haze of sequins and selfies Saturday at Argentina’s annual beauty pageant. Alejandra Marisa Rodríguez, a hopital legal adviser whose entry into the ...