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Iraq launches Mosul raid to drive out Islamic State ASIA

Iraq launches Mosul raid to drive out Islamic State

Iraqi government forces, with air and ground support from the US-led coalition, launched an offensive on Monday to drive Islamic State from the northern city of Mosul, the militants' last major stronghold in the country.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Car bomb attack on Turkey ruling party wounds 48 ASIA

Car bomb attack on Turkey ruling party wounds 48

A car bomb exploded Monday outside the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters in the eastern Turkish city of Van, wounding 48 people including two police officers ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Kurdish forces in fresh push to capture Mosul from IS ASIA

Kurdish forces in fresh push to capture Mosul from IS

Kurdish Peshmerga forces launched a fresh attack on Islamic State militants early on Sunday, as part of a campaign to capture the de facto IS capital Mosul, a Kurdish official said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Massive IS bomb attack kills 44 in Syrian Kurdish city ASIA

Massive IS bomb attack kills 44 in Syrian Kurdish city

A massive bomb blast claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least 44 people and wounded dozens on Wednesday in the Kurdish-majority Syrian city of Qamishli.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Post-Islamic State Iraq should be split in three: top Kurdish official ASIA

Post-Islamic State Iraq should be split in three: top Kurdish official

Once Islamic State is defeated, Iraq should be divided into three separate entities to prevent further sectarian bloodshed, with a state each given to Shia Muslims, Sunnis and Kurds ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Eight Turkey troops killed in anti-PKK operations: army ASIA

Eight Turkey troops killed in anti-PKK operations: army

Six Turkish soldiers were killed on Friday in a clash with Kurdish militants in the southeast of the country while two more lost their lives when a military helicopter sent to the scene crashed, the army said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Six police killed in bomb attack in Turkey's Diyarbakir ASIA

Six police killed in bomb attack in Turkey's Diyarbakir

Six police officers were killed and at least 23 people wounded on Thursday in a bomb attack targeting a Turkish police vehicle in the Kurdish-majority southeastern city of Diyarbakir.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Iraq launches offensive against Islamic State south of Mosul ASIA

Iraq launches offensive against Islamic State south of Mosul

Iraq's armed forces started an offensive against Islamic State in the northerly Nineveh province in what a military statement described as the first stage of an operation aimed at liberating the city of Mosul.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Turkey pounds Kurdish camps after Ankara bombing ASIA

Turkey pounds Kurdish camps after Ankara bombing

Turkish warplanes pounded Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq Monday, the day after a suicide car bomb tore through downtown Ankara killing at least 36 people ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Three Turkish journalists freed by Kurdish kidnappers ASIA

Three Turkish journalists freed by Kurdish kidnappers

Three journalists from Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency were freed after being kidnapped by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the mainly Kurdish southeast, the news agency said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
At least 38 civilians die in US-led strikes in Syria ASIA

At least 38 civilians die in US-led strikes in Syria

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that at least 38 civilians were killed in air strikes carried out by a US-led coalition in Hasaka province in northeast Syria in the past two days.

4:45 AM November 25 2016