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 ...
Disgraced former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells faces a second day of questioning at the inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal/ at the inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal as the lead campaigner in delivering justice for those wrongly convicted said he has ”no sympathy“ for ...
Naama, 19, was among seven young female conscripts taken hostage by Hamas gunmen who attacked Nahal Oz military base in southern Israel on 7 October/ The brother of Israeli hostage Naama Levy has said the family’s decision to release new harrowing video of the moment his sister and other female ...
An Iowa Department of Transportation camera caught terrifying moments Tuesday for two truck drivers near The first tractor-trailer appears to have seen the tornado heading across the , and had pulled over. As the traffic cam starts shaking from the strong wind and rain blurs the image, a tanker ...
Female hostages who are Israeli soldiers Liri Albag and Agam Berger sit on the ground with their hands bound during their capture by Gazan militants at Nahal Oz military base in southern Israel on October 7/ JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli television aired previously withheld footage on Wednesday ...
We asked the world to recognise us, now we're recognising Palestine/ Ireland, Norway, and Spain have announced they will formally recognise a Palestinian state from 28 May. Spain and Ireland said the decision was not against Israel nor in favour of Hamas, but rather in support of peace. Israel ...
$275,000 401(k) in exchange for our $250,000 house./ “He thinks I could use the money from his 401(k) to either buy a house or use some as a down payment.” (Photo subjects are models.) - Getty Images/iStockphoto/ I am 61 and he is 51. In 2006, I left a job and used my 401(k) to pay off all of ...
Many countries say they will only recognise a Palestinian state as part of a long-term political solution/ As fighting and suffering continues in Gaza, and violence grows in the West Bank, prospects of the Palestinian people gaining their own state might seem further away than ever. to formally ...
Unrwa said food warehouses and distribution centres in eastern Rafah were inaccessible because of the Israeli military operation/ Food distribution in the southern Gaza city of Rafah has been suspended due to a lack of supplies and insecurity, the UN says. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, ...
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said a two-state solution was the "only alternative"; while Ireland's PM Simon Harris said the decision would help create a "peaceful future"/ The Belgian PM (L) has been highly critical of Israel's military operation in Gaza Image caption: The Belgian ...
Two women who disappeared during a drive between Kansas and Oklahoma amid a contentious custody battle were found dead inside a freezer buried in a cattle pasture leased by one of the five suspects in their killings, according to newly released search warrants. Affidavits in the case say the ...