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Iraqi forces 600m from Mosul’s Great Mosque
Iraqi security forces are within 600 meters of west Mosul’s Great Mosque where Daesh announced its so-called caliphate.

Iraqi security forces are within 600 meters of west Mosul’s Great Mosque where Daesh announced its so-called caliphate.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who has prohibited any pool reporters from traveling with him, says he is not “a big media press access person.”

The German foreign minister says the prospect of Turkey’s accession to the EU has never been so low.

The chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces says the country is capable of producing and using missiles that can land no more than 10 meters off their target.

At least six civilians lose their lives after Saudi fighter jets strike a car in the southwestern Yemeni province of Ta'izz.

Mariano Rajoy says the Spanish government will give nothing in exchange for disarmament of the Basque militant separatist group ETA.

Iran strongly condemns a US airstrike against a mosque full of people in a village west of the Syrian city of Aleppo.

Syrian army troops and allied fighters liberate 11 villages in northeastern Aleppo from the clutches of Daesh terrorists.

Thousands of Kurdish protesters in the German city of Frankfurt rally against the Turkish president.

Terrorists shot down the MiG-21 fighter jet by a heat-seeking missile.

Iran dismisses as bogus and utterly political the US allegation that the Islamic Republic supports terrorism.

The White House intruder was on the grounds for 15 minutes before his arrest.

French Finance Minister Michel Sapin says he regretted that a meeting of world financial leaders on Saturday had failed to reach satisfactory conclusions on climate change and trade.

Thousands of people rally against Islamophobia and racism in London.

South Koreans protested in Seongju county against the deployment of the US missile system.

In his recent visit to Russia, the Israeli PM implored Russian President Putin not to facilitate the elimination of Daesh in Syria, says the Hezbollah chief.

An expert says the Israelis want to provoke Hezbollah into a war by carrying an attack in Syria.

Moscow warns that the humanitarian consequences of an imminent Saudi attack on Yemen's Hudaydah would be "grave."