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UNICEF calls on Yemen's warring sides to stop impeding aid

 A senior official in the U.N. children's agency says the number of severely malnourished children in Yemen has doubled in three years of civil war, from 200,000 in 2015, and that an additional half a million boys and girls can no longer go to school. Regional UNICEF director Geert...

Seven killed in attacks across Iraq

Seven people were killed in attacks across Iraq including the country's capital city Baghdad early Sunday.  Iraqi information security center affiliated to the Iraqi army said that four civilians of a family were killed in an armed attack against a security point in As Sa'diyah...

Daesh ambush leaves 8 police officers dead in Iraq

At least eight police officers were killed in a Daesh ambush on a highway in Iraq Saturday, according to a local police officer. Diyala Police Captain Habib al-Shammari told Anadolu Agency the ambush took place at the Baghdad-Kirkuk highway. The eight police officers were taken...