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The United States is reportedly planning to keep some of its forces in a military base in southeastern Syria despite a total withdrawal ordered by US President Donald Trump. Informed sources told Washington-based Foreign Policy magazine on Friday that given the strategic importance of the al-Tanf garrison, situated in Syria’s …

About 300 people are missing after a dam collapsed at an iron ore mine in south-eastern Brazil, officials say. The break caused a sea of muddy sludge that buried the dam’s cafeteria where workers were eating lunch on Friday. Rescue teams used earth-moving machinery at the site near the town …

A mob of angry civilians has attacked a Turkish military camp near the Iraqi city of Dohuk, burning equipment, and vehicles. The incident comes in response to the deaths of civilians during Turkish airstrikes, local media reports. The incident occurred in northern Iraq on Saturday, when a large mob of …

Iraq’s pro-government Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), known in Arabic as Hashd al-Sha’abi, have advised Israel against “playing with fire” after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hinted that Tel Aviv may attack the anti-terror volunteer fighters. Moein al-Kazemi, a Hashd commander, said on Sunday that the force was ready to …

Three Islamic State terrorists were killed Saturday in an airstrike on a terrorist hotbed in Diyala, a well-placed provincial official said. Sadeq al-Husseini, the head of the Security Committee in Diyala Provincial Council, said that Iraqi warplanes targeted a hotbed of Islamic State in al-Waqf basin, northeast of Baquba, leaving …

Pentagon chief of staff becomes third senior defense official to quit in a matter of weeks.  A senior Pentagon official has become the third senior staff member to quit following Donald Trump’s unilateral decision to withdraw American troops from Syria  Kevin Sweeney resigned as a department of defense chief of …

At least 30 people have been killed after a landslide destroyed an illegal gold mine in Afghanistan’s northern Badakhshan province. Sanaullah Rohani, a provincial police spokesman, said a further seven people were injured while working in a tunnel in Kohistan district on Sunday.  Officials said the victims were villagers who …

The army liberates 8 new villages in the countrysides of Hama and Aleppo Syrian army units were able to take control on eight new villages in the northern and eastern Hama countrysides after the destruction of the last of the gatherings and fortifications of “Daesh” terrorists. According to field sources: …

Death toll rises over 60 due rainfalls and flooding  The largest number of victims accounts for the prefecture of Hiroshima, located in the south-west of Honshu island, and the prefecture of Ehime, situated in the north-west of Shikoku island, according to the Kyodo News agency. The number of people who …

EU warns Washington of ‘harmful’ impact on US of car tariffs  The European Commission has warned the United States that imposing tariffs on European cars “will be harmful first and foremost for the US economy.” The Commission’s warning was part of a response to a US request for comment on …

Bangladesh shut down high schools across the country as tens of thousands of students protested for a fifth straight day after two teenagers were killed by a speeding bus. Bangladesh’s transport sector is widely seen as corrupt, unregulated, and dangerous, and as news of the teenagers’ deaths spread rapidly on …

Zimbabwe’s opposition has rejected President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s narrow presidential election victory after a poll marred by deadly violence and allegations of vote rigging. On Thursday night, Mnangagwa was declared a winner of the election, the country’s first since the toppling of veteran leader Robert Mugabe, with a slim lead over …