Washington: America now.The coalition ministers of the International Alliance have confirmed that more than 7.7 million people have been freed from tyrannical tyranny, but the defeat of the field in Iraq and Syria does not mean that the campaign against IsIs is over. The organization is increasing the support for its branches and networks around the world.They Continue fighting from more convenient locations and to inspire local terrorists.The statement issued by the coalition yesterday:      We, the Ministers, Secretaries General, and

GAZA (Reuters) . A Palestinian taking part in a border protests was killed on Friday, Gazan medical officials said, bringing to 136 the number killed in the confrontations that have often drawn a lethal Israeli army response since they began on March 30. The Gaza Health Ministry said the 22-year-old died of a chest wound. It said Israeli shelling wounded eight people in the same location, east of Gaza City, though it was not clear if the two incidents were linked.Israel’s

By Hana Salah and Noga Tarnopolsky | Bureij Refugee Camp, Gaza Strip.No one guessed that kites would be the weapon to flummox the mighty Israeli army.Yet kites and balloons, those summery playthings, have confounded a military that has succeeded in securing its border from every other challenge it has faced in the clashes that have rippled across its border with the Gaza Strip since late March.Kites trailing burning rags, and booby-trapped balloons carried aloft by winds heading inland from the

BAMAKO, Reuters. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to donors on Tuesday to provide more predictable support to the G5 Sahel force fighting to contain West African jihadists.He spoke while on a visit to Mali, the country worst affected by Islamist militants.A conference in February of about 50 countries including the United States, Japan and Norway pledged 414 million euros ($509 million) for the G5 Sahel force, made up of troops from Mali, Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso and Mauritania.But the force has

Philippe Bohstrom. Jews have been unquestionably connected with the city for millennia, yet it functioned as their capital only for short periods in history " May the opening of this embassy, in this city, spread the truth far and wide and may the truth advance a lasting peace between Israel and all our neighbors. God bless the United States of America, and God bless Jerusalem, the eternal, undivided capital of Israel. " – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the inauguration of the U.S. embassy

KUALA LUMPUR, May 16 (Reuters) .Jailed Malaysian reformist Anwar Ibrahim was granted a full pardon on Wednesday and walked out of a hospital in Kuala Lumpur just a week after his alliance scored a shock victory in a general election.Smiling and waving to supporters, Anwar, dressed in a black suit and tie and his hair neatly swept back, was surrounded by his family, lawyers and prison guards before driving to the palace for an audience with King Sultan Muhammad V.He

BRASILIA/SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil,(Reuters) .B razil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will not turn himself in to serve a 12-year prison sentence for bribery until a higher court rules on a last-minute appeal, a party source with knowledge of the matter said on Friday.Lula's lawyers urged the Superior Court of Justice, Brazil's top appeals court, to suspend the prison order. They argue they have not exhausted procedural appeals and painted the case as an effort to remove

SOWETO, South Africa, April 2 (Reuters).Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who emerged as a combative anti-apartheid campaigner during her husband Nelson Mandela's decades in jail but whose reputation was later tarnished by allegations of violence, died on Monday at the age of 81.Madikizela-Mandela died peacefully surrounded by her family following a long illness that kept her in and out of hospital since the start of the year, family spokesman Victor Dlamini said in a statement. " Winnie Mandela leaves a huge legacy and, as we

JERUSALEM, Reuters. A teenage girl who became a hero to Palestinians after she was filmed slapping and kicking an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank appeared in an Israeli military court on Tuesday for the start of her trial.Ahed Tamimi, 17, has drawn international attention following her arrest after the Dec. 15 confrontation with an Israeli officer and a soldier outside her West Bank home of Nabi Saleh.The incident was streamed live on Facebook by her mother and went viral.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) .A visa program aimed at diversifying the U.S. immigrant population came under attack from President Donald Trump on Wednesday after he learned that the man accused of killing eight people in New York City on Tuesday used it to enter the country.Sayfullo Saipov, who was charged in Tuesday's truck attack, immigrated to the United States from Uzbekistan in 2010 after winning a lottery enabling him to obtain a so-called " Diversity Visa, " two government officials confirmed to Reuters.The program,

MADRID, (Reuters)  .Spain's state prosecutor sought a European arrest warrant for former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, now in Belgium, after he failed to appear at a High Court hearing on Thursday.Other leaders of the independence drive, that has brought thousands onto the streets of Barcelona demonstrating both for and against a break with Madrid, appeared before a Spanish court and faced prosecution demands they be held in custody.Puigdemont's lawyer in Belgium, where he has travelled with four members of his

COX'S BAZAR/YANGON, : Reuters .Hungry, destitute and scared, thousands of new Rohingya refugees crossed the border into Bangladesh from Myanmar early on Monday, Reuters witnesses said, fleeing hunger and attacks by Buddhist mobs that the United Nations has called ethnic cleansing.Wading through waist-deep water with children strapped to their sides, the refugees told Reuters they had walked through bushes and forded monsoon-swollen streams for days.A seemingly never-ending flow entered Bangladesh near the village of Palongkhali. Many were injured, with the