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Iraqi gains reveal huge scale of IS arms industry

Factories churning out tens of thousands of munitions and an entire street turned into a conveyor belt for car bombs: advances by Iraqi forces around Mosul have laid bare the scale of the Islamic State group's arms industry. In the more than two years since it seized control over swathes of...

Nearly 1,000 people held at Iran checkpoint outside Aleppo

Nearly 1,000 people from Aleppo evacuated overnight after a ceasefire deal are held at an Iranian militia checkpoint outside the city, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency quoted the head of the Turkish Red Crescent as saying on Wednesday. "These people had passed the Russian check point,"...

Iran's militias foil Aleppo ceasefire

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Iranian militias in the eastern neighborhoods in Aleppo foiled the ceasefire agreement announced on Tuesday which states to evacuate all armed men, civilians, and injured from the eastern neighborhoods in Aleppo to Idlib city. The head of the Turkish Red Crescent as...

UN: Still time to avoid 'worst-case scenario' in South Sudan

The United Nations Human Rights Council is meeting to discuss the situation in South Sudan, with the world body's top human rights official saying there's still time for action to avoid a "worst-case scenario" in the five-year-old country. Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the U.N. high commissioner...