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Iran's Rouhani says new US sanctions violate nuclear accord

President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that new U.S. economic sanctions imposed against Iran contravened the country's nuclear accord with world powers and he vowed that Tehran would "resist" them, state television reported. The Trump administration slapped the new sanctions on Iran on...

Air strikes kill at least 20 Yemeni civilians

At least 20 Yemeni civilians were killed and many others were wounded when a coalition air strike hit a village in the south, officials from the armed Houthi movement and the government said on Wednesday. The U.N. said the victims of Tuesday's bombing, which hit al-Atera village in Taiz...

Iraqi PM: Rights violations in Mosul were 'individual acts'

Iraq's prime minister has acknowledged that human rights violations were committed during the battle to retake the city of Mosul from Daesh (ISIS), but says they were "individual acts." Haider al-Abadi told reporters during a press conference Tuesday that those behind such acts were either...