Iraqi Defense Minister Khalid al-Obeidi on Monday escaped an assassination attempt by sniper fire near the battleground town of Baiji in Iraq's northern central province of Salahudin, wounding one of his guards, a Defense Ministry statement said.
Iraqi security forces foiled an attack Sunday by Islamic State (IS) militants against the city of Tikrit, killing five IS militants, a provincial security source said.
The Chinese navy conducted a live fire drill in the East China Sea on Thursday.
The Taliban-led militancy has intensified in northern parts of the conflict-ridden Afghanistan as fighting between insurgents and security forces has been continuing in the northern Saripul and parts of Kunduz provinces over the past two days.
Iraqi security forces Wednesday repelled an attack by Islamic State (IS) militants, including a suicide bombing in the oil refinery town of Baiji in the Salahudin province, killing at least 12 IS militants and 12 security members, a provincial security source said.
Myanmar armed forces have cleared the area of a road section of the new Asia Highway in southeastern Kayin state, the military-run Myawaddy media reported Friday.
U.S. defense chief said Tuesday that execution of the U.S. strategy against the extremist group, the Islamic State, fell short of expectation.
U.S. President Barack Obama said Monday that local forces should be the main forces to fight the extremist group the Islamic State (IS) and currently there was no plan for his administration to send more U.S. troops abroad.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said on Wednesday that U.S. training efforts in Iraqi security forces against the extremist group Islamic State (IS) had so far fallen short of what the U.S. military had expected.
A total of 44 people were killed Tuesday in the U.S.-led coalition air strikes and clashes between Iraqi forces and Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, security sources said.
BEIJING, June 15 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese airborne special forces squad on Monday left for Belarus for a joint anti-terrorism drill training, a People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force spokesman said.
It is not yet clear whether a new U.S. plan to send hundreds of troops to Iraq to help defeating the Islamic State (IS) militant group was the right move to give a push to the Iraqi forces on the battleground, but some Iraqis here met President Barack Obama's new strategy with scepticism.
Iraqi security forces on Thursday repelled multiple suicide car bomb attacks by the Islamic State (IS) militants, while clashes with the extremist group continued in the provinces of Salahudin and Anbar, security source said.
A suicide car bomb detonated at a military base in Iraq's western province of Anbar on Monday, killing at least 38 members of the security force and wounding 25 others, a provincial source told Xinhua.
U.S. and Iraqi authorities have exchanged accusations on the fall of the city of Ramadi into the hands of the Islamic State (IS) militants, reflecting the failure of U.S. policy in dealing with global terrorism.
A total of 47 people were killed on Thursday in separate clashes between the Islamic State (IS) militants and Iraqi security forces in the provinces of Salahudin and Anbar, security sources said.
Iraqi security forces on Sunday continued advance and clashes with the Islamic State (IS) militants in the northern central province of Salahudin, while U.S. -led coalition and Iraqi aircraft pounded suspected IS positions in Anbar province, a provincial official and security sources said.
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