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Russia sends warships to Baltic as NATO stages drills

Thu Jun 12, 2014 19:24:37

Russia has deployed 24 Baltic Fleet warships and vessels, along with heavy fighter jets and bombers, as reinforcement for military drills in the westernmost Kaliningrad region while NATO stages its own war games across the border.

Iraqi air force bombs militants positions in Mosul: TV

Thu Jun 12, 2014 19:05:31

The Iraqi air force bombed the notorious Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorists’ positions in and around the northern city of Mosul on Thursday evening, footage aired on state television showed.

Iraqi parl’t adjourns session to declare state of emergency

Thu Jun 12, 2014 17:45:36

The Iraqi parliament Thursday adjourned a session to vote on declaring a nationwide state of emergency due to lack of quorum.

Saudi Arabia behind insurgency in Iraq: Al-Manar

Thu Jun 12, 2014 16:19:22

A leading Arabic newspaper has accused Saudi Arabia of being behind recent insurgency in Ninawa and Salah al-Din provinces in Iraq.

Iraqi Kurdish forces in full control of Kirkuk

Thu Jun 12, 2014 15:07:06

Kurdish forces are in full control of Iraq's oil-rich city of Kirkuk after the federal army abandoned their posts, a peshmerga spokesman says.

Breaking: ISIL retreated from Mosul after Iraqi airforce assault

Thu Jun 12, 2014 14:24:16

Radical militants from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Levant have retreated from Mosul, in northern Iraq, due to the heavy defeat they faced by the Iraqi army airforce, Al-Alam reports.

Turkmen tribesmen join Iraq army in war on ISIL

Thu Jun 12, 2014 14:21:00

Turkmen tribesmen in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar, in Nineveh province, have formed vigilante groups after militants from the Al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) seized the provincial capital Mosul.

How ISIL came into existence?

Thu Jun 12, 2014 13:23:42

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant is a Salafi militant groups with Takfiri and extremist beliefs which is active in Iraq and Syria.

Pakistan court allows Musharraf to leave the country

Thu Jun 12, 2014 12:20:23

A court in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi has ordered the government to remove former military ruler Pervez Musharraf's name from a no-fly list in 15 days' time, his lawyer has said.

ISIL urges terrorists to advance towards Baghdad

Thu Jun 12, 2014 12:03:30

A spokesman for the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) terrorists operating inside Iraq has called on the group’s members to march toward the capital, Baghdad.

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