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 ...
LIVONIA, Mich. (AP) — A tiny, low-priced electric car called the Seagull has American automakers and politicians trembling. The car, launched last year by Chinese automaker BYD, sells for around $12,000 in China, but drives well and is put together with craftsmanship that rivals U.S. electric ...
recently, gaining more than 4% over the past five days to close out their best week of the year. ) is up more than 12% year to date in a reversal from last year when investors due to expensive projects and high interest rates. from artificial intelligence has made the defensive part of the ...
At least seven people were killed and 17 injured when a whole section of a Russian apartment block collapsed after it was struck by a Soviet-era missile launched by Ukraine and shot down by Russia, Russian officials said. In one of the deadliest attacks to date on the region of Belgorod, Ukraine ...
on Saturday told Arizona community college graduates to tune out the people who like to tell them what they can't do. how her high school guidance counselor told her she wasn't college material and shouldn't waste her time going. She didn't listen and got her college degree. Then she got three ...
A luxurious sibling of the JDM Toyota Mark II and Chaser, the Cressida was the fanciest car in the company's American lineup from 1978 to 1992./ Designed to be a quiet, cossetting luxury car, the Cressida sold mainly to older buyers when new, but its rear-wheel-drive layout and Supra-derived ...
A drone view shows a trail of trucks lining up on a road near Mitzpe Ramon, southern Israel, on 9 May Image caption: A drone view shows a trail of trucks lining up on a road near Mitzpe Ramon, southern Israel, on 9 May Humanitarian agencies, Israel's allies and other countries to ensure that ...
The northern lights animate the night sky on Sept. 8, 2022, in Bettles, Alaska. / Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images/ Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images/ Americans as far south as Alabama and Northern California could be treated to a show of the which ...
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (Reuters) -Dallas Federal Reserve President Lorie Logan on Friday said it's not clear if monetary policy is tight enough to bring inflation down to the U.S. central bank's 2% goal, and with price pressures still too strong, it is too soon to be cutting interest rates. ...
The San Bernardino Justice Center is shown. Two San Bernardino women said they lived in their home for over five years without heat because of a dispute with their insurance company./ Two San Bernardino sisters who sued their insurance company for failing to pay to repair flood damage on their ...
China's car exports surged to a record high in April, data showed on Friday, as domestic sales slipped 5.8% from a year earlier amid intensifying price competition and consumers' caution about spending on big items during a shaky economic recovery. Car exports jumped 38% year-on-year to 417,000 ...