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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party has suffered an embarrassing defeat in three state elections in its Hindu stronghold, months before national elections, AP reports. The Election Commission said on Wednesday that the opposition Congress party was the clear winner in Chhattisgarh state, and fell one seat short of a majority in both […]
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Decades of instability and weakened security forces make Afghanistan one of the most probable new IS destinations after the terrorist groups’ defeat in Syria and Iraq, Nikita Mendkovich, political analyst from the Russian International Affairs Council, told RT. On Sunday, the Iraqi government announced the country was “totally liberated” from terrorists and that the war […]
Brisbane’s famous venue, nicknamed The Gabbatoir for its ferocious atmosphere, has not seen a home defeat in 28 matches spanning 29 years. But the England captain insisted his side have the personnel to emerge with a first Ashes win there since 1986 to put their hosts on the back foot going to the day-night Test […]
Published time: 8 Nov, 2017 12:50 Edited time: 8 Nov, 2017 12:59 Syria’s army and its allies have surrounded and started to enter Albu Kamal, the pro-Hezbollah al-Manar television reported on Wednesday. Albu Kamal is the last significant stronghold of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in Syria. IS’s ‘caliphate’ has been all but destroyed over […]
As Syrian forces continue to crush pockets of terrorists in Deir ez-Zor, closing in on the last significant ISIS stronghold in the province, an RT Arabic crew traveling with the army reported of heavy clashes on the outskirts of Al-Mayadeen. The RT crew embedded with the Syrian army witnessed a huge offensive against IS (Islamic […]
REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan police killed at least 33 people in the capital during a crackdown following elections in August, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said on Monday. Excessive force by police against protesters and residents in strongholds of opposition leader Raila Odinga caused the deaths in Nairobi, the report said. President […]
Felipe Dana/Associated Press When US-backed Iraqi security forces and Iranian Shia militias cleared’ ISIS’s final Iraqi stronghold in Hawijah, they met with weak resistance and a massive surrender from a once-fearsome army. In 2016 and 2015, ISIS carried out suicide attacks around the globe at a historic rate. The terror group, founded in June 2014, […]
REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi The Islamic State has been losing ground in Syria for more than a year. United States-backed Syrian rebel forces have laid siege to the militant group’s de facto capital of Raqqa and now control most of the city; it’s expected to fall within days or weeks. But the fight to liberate Syria from […]
Thomson Reuters BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi forces have captured the town of Hawija and the surrounding area from Islamic State, the military said in a statement on Thursday. With the capture of Hawija, the militants’ last stronghold in northern Iraq, the only area that remains under control of Islamic State in Iraq is a stretch […]
