First Black Box Recovered From Sea
The flight data recorder of the Russian military airliner which crashed in the Black Sea on Sunday has been recovered, Russian officials say. It is the first “black box” to be retrieved from the...
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Saudi Arabia Launches Campaign To Collect Funds For Syrians Displaced By War
Saudi Arabia has launched a fundraising campaign for Syrians displaced by a five-year civil war, including those evacuated from eastern Aleppo, state news agency SPA reported on Monday. More than 11...
Fresh Advance In East Mosul To Begin Within Days
Iraqi forces will resume their push against Islamic State inside Mosul in the coming days, a U. S. battlefield commander said, in a new phase of the two-month-old operation that will see American...
Huge Search For Bodies In Black Sea
A huge search operation is continuing “round the clock” in Russia, after a Russian military plane with 92 people on board crashed into the Black Sea. Some 3,500 people on ships, jets, helicopters...
Ronaldo Sends Heartfelt Message To Syrian Children
Four time Ballon d'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo has released a video message to terror stricken children in Syria. The message which was targeted at children who had been immensely affected by the...
Huge Search For Bodies In Black Sea
A huge search operation is continuing "round the clock" in Russia, after a Russian military plane with 92 people on board crashed into the Black Sea. More than 3,000 people, including 109 divers, as...
Security Forces Warn Tunisia Over Returning Fighters
Tunisia's security forces have called on the government to adopt "exceptional measures" to deal with potential security threats from fighters who have returned to their home country. On Friday...
Russian Plane ‘disappears From Radar’ Near Sochi
Unconfirmed reports said the plane was flying to Syria's Latakia province. A Russian military plane has disappeared from radar just minutes after take-off from the Black Sea resort of Sochi, local...
Russian Jets Step Up Raids On Rebel-Held Idlib and Rural Aleppo
Russian jets stepped up strikes on several towns in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province and rural Aleppo two days after the evacuation of rebels from their last pocket in the northern city of Aleppo,...
The Shame Of A Nation
I just watched a very sad and disturbing video of our soldiers on the war front begging their President and Commander in Chief to provide them with food and water. They did this through footage which...
Netanyahu Snubs ‘shameful’ UN Vote
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a UN call to end illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land is “shameful”. He stressed that Israel would not abide by Friday’s vote...
UN Security Council Calls For An End
The United Nations Security Council has passed a resolution urging an end to illegal Israeli settlements after the US refused to veto it. The Egyptian-drafted resolution had been withdrawn after...
Two Guilty Over Terror Funding
Two UK men have been convicted of using Syria aid convoys to funnel cash to extremists in the war zone. The Muslim community-led convoys became unwitting vehicles for the plan to fund terrorism, the...
Trump Has Political Sensibility
On the morning of Eid al-Adha in December 2006, Raghad Saddam Hussein, her sister and their children squeezed together in front of the television in Raghad's home in Amman and wept as they watched...
Trump and Putin Seek To Boost Nuclear Capability
President-elect Donald Trump signaled Thursday that he will look to "strengthen and expand" the US's nuclear capability hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to enhance his country's...
UN To Create Team That Will Probe Syria War Crimes
The United Nations General Assembly has voted to establish a special team to "collect, consolidate, preserve and analyse evidence" as well as to prepare cases on war crimes and human rights abuses...
Turkish Troops Killed In Clashes With ISIL In Syria
Clashes between Turkish-backed Syrian rebels and ISIL fighters have intensified around the northern Syrian town of Al-Bab, resulting in the deaths of 14 Turkish soldiers, the military's highest...
Fethullah Gulen Condemns Assassination of Russian Ambassador To Turkey
Fethullah Gülen, a renowned Turkish Islamic scholar, preacher and social advocate, has condemned the assassination of Russia’s Ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, in Ankara. The gunman – an...
Bana Alabed, Aleppo’s Tweeting Girl, Meets Turkey’s President Erdogan
Bana Alabed - the seven-year-old Syrian who tweeted about life inside rebel-held east Aleppo - has met Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Bana and her little brother have been pictured sitting...
UN Member States Asked To Stop Human Trafficking
The UN Secretary-General yesterday (December 20, 2016) pleaded with Member States to take steps to help victims of human trafficking and also to prevent further cases in the future. These are heinous...