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Iraqi troops, militias repel ISIS

Government forces and Shiite militiamen repelled an ISIS attack Friday that left 10 soldiers dead in Anbar province, officials said. ISIS attacked the government-held town of Khalidiyah with mortar bombs and five suicide car bombs, Anbar councilman Athal al-Fahdawi said. They retreated after an...

Coffins of 136 victims brought to Srebrenica memorial

  Thousands turned out to pay respects Friday on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre as 136 more coffins of identified victims were brought to a memorial centre to be buried the next day. Bosnian soldiers in battlefield uniforms, survivors of the...

Iraq's Shi'ite militias target Falluja in Anbar campaign

Iraqi Shi'ite militia fighters are tightening a noose around the Islamic State-held city of Falluja west of Baghdad as the first stage of a counter-offensive in the Sunni province of Anbar, likely to determine the course of the conflict in coming months. Islamic State seized...