US-backed forces pressed offensives Wednesday on the Islamic State group's strongholds in Syria and Iraq, as an air strike by the American-led coalition reportedly killed 20 civilians near the Syrian city of Raqa.
Kyrgyzstan's government resigned on Wednesday after President Almazbek Atambayev's party quit the ruling majority coalition earlier this week, deepening a rift between the pro-Russian leader and his former allies.
Iraqi forces advancing on Mosul faced stiff resistance from the Islamic State group despite an unprecedented wave of US-led coalition air strikes in support of the week-old offensive.
The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Saturday evening on Syria after the U.S.-led coalition staged airstrikes on Syrian military positions, diplomatic sources told Xinhua.
The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State (IS) in the Middle East must prepare for a mass exodus of militants if the Iraqi city of Mosul is liberated, Australian Defense Minister Marise Payne said on Friday.
Syrian observers have condemned the frequent targeting of civilians by the U.S.-led anti-terror coalition airstrikes, whose declared goal is striking the Islamic State (IS) group.
Australia’s prime minister said on Sunday that his conservative coalition government was re-elected for a second three-year term, after a chaotic national election that left the country in a state of political paralysis for more than a week while officials scrambled to sort out who had won the tight race.
Australia's incumbent coalition government still has a chance to secure a majority in Parliament, leading political analysts have said on Wednesday, after it managed to secure three of the seats that were previously "on a knife's edge."
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon said here on Thursday that he has to remove temporarily Saudi-led coalition from UN's blacklist of committing violations against children due to "undue pressure."
Israel's ultranationalist lawmaker Avigdor Lieberman was sworn-in as defense minister on Monday evening after the Israeli parliament approved the nomination.
Servicemen from the U.S.-led coalition were seen near the front line of a new offensive in northern Iraq launched on Sunday by Kurdish peshmerga forces that aims to retake a handful of villages from Islamic State east of their Mosul stronghold.
The coalition Australian government has, for the first time since Malcolm Turnbull took over, fallen behind the opposition as preferred party to lead the nation, just months out from a federal election.
Three explosions rocked Yemen' s temporary capital of Aden on Friday evening, leaving 25 people killed and several others injured, a security official told Xinhua.
The Saudi-led coalition launched an investigation into allegations of violations in Yemen Sunday, including the death of innocent people via friendly fire, reported Al Arabiya local news agency.
The international coalition against terrorist groups like Daesh, also known as the Islamic State the terrorist group, should involve coordinated operations of ground military and air strikes, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday.
Four Syrian soldiers were killed on Sunday when U.S.-led coalition airplanes struck positions of government troops, pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV reported on Monday.
U.S.-led coalition airplanes struck positions of the Syrian army in the country's eastern province on Sunday evening, local media reported.
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