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The Syrian army said it would suspend combat operations in the southern city of Deraa for 48 hours from Saturday, as mediators announced two separate attempts to convene new peace talks next month, Reuters reported.The Syrian army…

A forest fire raging since Saturday in central Portugal has killed at least 57 people, a government official said on Sunday, in what is possibly the deadliest-ever single forest blaze in Portugal."It is the greatest tragedy of human…

The Libyan authorities from the Operation Al-Bunyan Al-Marsous handed over Friday 8 children of Sudanese nationality to Sudan's representative in Libya.The Sudanese representative will later supervise the process of transporting…

At least three women were killed and nine wounded after an explosive device went off in a restroom in a busy shopping centre in Colombia's capital, Bogota, officials say, Al-Jazeera wrote.The Andino shopping centre in an exclusive…

Uganda is planning to send about 1,000 medical workers to Libya, an official said on Friday, a plan criticised by health activists who believe it would further weaken the country's struggling health care system.Over the last decade,…

Russia said on Saturday that airstrikes carried out this month had killed about 180 Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Syria, including two field commanders.“As a result of June 6 and 8 aerial strikes on targets belonging to IS…

The Representative of the US Embassy in Libya paid a visit on Saturday to the border crossing between Libya and Tunisia, Ras Ajdair.According to the representative, the visit to Ras Ajdair and other areas in western Libya comes to…

Iraqi forces captured Saturday a border crossing point to Syria from the Islamic State group, increasing pressure on the extremists and getting closer to meeting up with Syrian troops and their allies who reached the border earlier this…

The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, ordered on Friday the appointment of the former Lebanese Culture Minister Ghassan Salame as the new Head of the UNSMIL and Special delegate to Libya by the UN.Salame, who was a minister at…