Iraqi government and paramilitary forces announced Friday plans to launch an assault to retake Hawija, the last ISIL group’s urban bastion in the country, a day after recapturing Tal Afar. Iraqi forces have now forced ISIL terrorist group out of all its Iraqi territories except the town of Hawija, 300 ...
Around 400 people — most of them Rohingya — have died in violence searing through Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the army chief’s office said Friday, with tens of thousands forced to flee across the border into Bangladesh. A further 20,000 Rohingya have massed along the Bangladeshi frontier, barred from entering the ...
