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The British forces operating in the international coalition in Iraq announced on Thursday, their withdrawal from the Taji military base, north of the capital, Baghdad. A British Ministry of Defense statement entitled, “The British Army leaves the Taji camp, but in no way left Iraq”, pointing out that “ISIS has …

One of the US Navy’s MQ-4C Triton high altitude long endurance (HALE) reconnaissance drones was spotted entering the South China Sea on Wednesday – the latest addition to an increasingly long list of US spy planes plying the waterway in recent months. The unmanned aerial vehicle was spotted entering the …

TEHRAN: The United Nations has no information about the alleged hack attack by a Russia-linked cyber group targeting information concerning the development of a potential COVID-19 vaccine in the West, UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a press briefing on Thursday. Earlier in the day, the United Kingdom’s National Cyber …

TEHRAN: President Donald Trump’s niece Mary Trump said she heard the president use racist and anti-Semitic slurs including the N-word in the past. In an explosive interview Thursday night on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, Mary Trump was asked repeatedly if she had heard the president use racist language and …

TEHRAN: British Airways announced it will immediately retire its entire fleet of Boeing 747 planes after the downturn in travel sparked by the coronavirus outbreak. It will mean taking all 31 of its 747-400 planes out of its wider fleet of 300 aircraft, more than three years earlier than planned, …

The lawyers of jailed Muslim cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky have called for the dismissal of the case against him and his wife as well as their immediate release from the Nigerian government’s captivity. Zakzaky’s lawyers demanded, in a motion presented to the High Court of Justice in Nigeria on Thursday, …

China’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Hua Chunying noted that the US itself is the biggest human rights violator in the world. China’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the US accusation against the Xinjiang region on the issue of human rights is the biggest lie of the current century. She made the …

US police have been using unmarked vehicles to drive around Portland and grab people off the streets, as they gathered to decry police brutality, on the 50th consecutive day of Black Lives Matter rallies in the city, witnesses say. Hundreds of people gathered in the city on Thursday to protest …

At least three Russian troops have been injured in a drone attack in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah. The Lebanon-based al-Nour radio station reported that the unidentified unmanned aerial vehicle launched the attack against a Russian military observation post on the road linking the town of al-Darbasiyah to the provincial …

Libya has denounced the Egyptian president’s recent threats of military intervention in the North African country to support forces of renegade strongman Khalifa Haftar. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said on Thursday that he “will not stand idle” against threats to national security and could arm Libyan tribes against the internationally-recognized …