The Iraqi army and pro-government Hashd al-Shaabi militia have reinforced their forces around the Turkmen-majority Tuz Khurmato city in northern Iraq, according to a military officer on Wednesday. The move came a day after six people were killed and 15 others injured at a fake...
Hamas on Wednesday named a fugitive suspect in a bomb attack on Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah, two days after the Islamist movement itself was accused of the Gaza attack. Hamdallah was unhurt by the roadside blast that struck his convoy on March 13, in what Palestinian...
Zimbabwe's new president Emmerson Mnangagwa has pardoned up to 3,000 prisoners, including most female inmates, in his first act of clemency, a government notice showed on Wednesday. The last time that prisoners were released en masse was in May 2016 by former president Robert Mugabe...