
MILITARY
Fallon calls for reconsidering Syria case
UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon has appealed to MPs to reconsider Syria's airstrikes.

UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon has appealed to MPs to reconsider Syria's airstrikes.

At least 7 Iraqi fighters from Popular Mobilization Units are killed and 20 others wounded in a car bomb attack in Tikrit.

Turkish military sources says a soldier and a police officer are killed in separate attacks blamed on the PKK in Diyarbakir.

The Greek parliament approves a reform bill demanded by its international lenders to unblock financial aid.

The Pentagon has spent nearly $400 million to train only a handful of militants in Syria.

British airliners are set to return stranded Britons from Egypt without their luggage.

The US says a two-state solution in the occupied Palestinian territories is not plausible soon.

Bolivian lawmakers approve a bill to hold a referendum on a piece of constitutional reform to allow President Evo Morales to seek a new term.

A Russian diplomat calls for the participation of Iran in the next round of international peace talks in Vienna, Austria.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his spokesman – who has offended senior US officials – does not speak for him.

Obama says that the Russian plane that crashed last weekend in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula was possibly brought down by a bomb.

A dam bursts at a southeastern Brazilian iron ore mine, killing more than a dozen people.

Egyptian military forces kill a Palestinian fisherman off the coast of the southern part of the besieged Gaza Strip.

Thousands of anti-capitalist protesters rally in London, chanting slogans against the ruling establishment.

The US will “be held to account for its crimes in aiding and abetting Israel’s slow genocide on Palestinians,” an international lawyer says.

The OPCW says chemical weapons were used in fighting between rival militant groups in Syria in August.

The US House has passed a $607 billion defense bill that hampers efforts to close the notorious Guantanamo Bay military prison.

A UN rights group says the prominent Bahraini opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, has been detained “arbitrarily.”