Author: Reuters ID: 1581453107191951400 Tue, 2020-02-11 15:48 BAGHDAD: Shortly after Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike in Iraq, the Tehran-backed Lebanese organization Hezbollah urgently met with Iraqi militia leaders, seeking to unite them in … read more
Author: AFP ID: 1581445821601567000 Tue, 2020-02-11 17:45 BAGHDAD: Residents of Baghdad rushed to have snowball fights or take photographs Tuesday as the Iraqi capital woke carpeted in white by only its second snowfall in a century. The last recorded snowfall … read more
Author: Jay Deshmukh and Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali | AFP ID: 1581436469810841900 Tue, 2020-02-11 15:50 KHARTOUM: Sudan has agreed to hand ousted autocrat Omar Al-Bashir and others to the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes in Darfur, a member … read more
Tue, 2020-02-11 18:34 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejected US President Donald Trump’s peace plan on Tuesday during a meeting of the UN Security Council, but withheld a resolution urging the UN’s rejection of it. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opened the … read more
Author: AFP ID: 1581435291250736800 Tue, 2020-02-11 15:33 BAGHDAD: Iraqi cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr announced on Tuesday he was dissolving the “blue caps”, an organised unit of his supporters accused of deadly attacks on anti-government protests in recent days. Al-Sadr, who has … read more