…President Donald Trump had initially said no troops had been injured in the January 8 strike on the Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq   Strikes were in retaliation for the killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani The Pentagon has revealed that 34 service members had been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury following missile strikes […]

A 32-year-old radical militant, on Friday, was sentenced to five years and four months in prison for helping to plan a terrorist attack in the German capital, Berlin. According to the ruling by the Berlin Regional Court, the Gesundbrunnen Shopping Centre has been considered as a target, but the militants abandoned their plans for fear […]

Four employees of a French Christian NGO, three French nationals and one Iraqi, have been missing in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad since Monday, the charity announced Friday. The four men working with the influential SOS Chretiens d’Orient (Christians of the Middle East) charity went missing near the French embassy in the Iraqi capital, the organisation’s director […]

A powerful earthquake measuring 6.8 hit eastern Turkey on Friday, leaving at least four people dead and causing buildings to collapse. The quake shook the Sivrice district in the eastern province of Elazig at around 8.55 pm (1755 GMT), the government’s disaster and emergency management agency said. The US Geological Survey assessed the quake’s magnitude […]

China is rushing to build a new hospital in a staggering 10 days to treat patients at the epicentre of a deadly virus outbreak that has stricken hundreds of people, state media reported Friday. The facility in the central city of Wuhan is expected to be in use by February 3 to serve a rising […]

The second US case of deadly coronavirus has been confirmed in Chicago, Illinois as dozens get tested across the country, including New York, health officials say On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the patient is a 60-year-old woman who traveled to Wuhan, China, where the virus originated, in late December. […]

The U.S. Department of State has introduced new regulations to stop “birth tourism’’, the practice of giving birth in the country to obtain American citizenship for a child. The rules, which take effect on Friday, would make it harder for pregnant foreign nationals to enter the United States on tourism visas. According to the policy […]

Thousands of Iraqis rallied at two central Baghdad intersections on Friday after a prominent cleric called for a “million-strong” protest against the American military presence, following the U.S. killing of an Iranian general and an Iraqi militia chief. The march called by Moqtada al-Sadr aims to pressure Washington to pull out its troops, but many […]

Isabel dos Santos, the tycoon daughter of Angola’s ex-president who is at the centre of an anti-graft investigation, on Thursday vowed she was ready to fight against what she called “misleading and untrue” allegations. Dos Santos, dubbed ‘the princess’ in Angola, is accused of using her father’s influence to steal millions of dollars from state […]

Ukraine’s population has shrunk by almost a quarter since 2001, new figures showed Thursday, fuelled by migration but also because residents in the separatist east and Moscow-annexed Crimea could not be counted. “There are 37.3 million people living in Ukraine,” Dmytro Dubilet, the minister of the Cabinet of Ministers, said at a press conference, representing […]