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The US Command in Africa (AFRICOM) said the US warplanes have carried out 65 airstrikes until last Thursday when it bombed IS locations in Sirte three times.The US, which started bombarding IS in Sirte on August 1st under the…

American fighter planes have been scrambled to the Syrian city of Hassakeh to protect US special forces on the ground from Syrian government aerial attacks, the US military says.The Pentagon said the Syrian planes were leaving as…

Usain Bolt ended his Olympic career by claiming an unprecedented 'triple triple' and his ninth gold as Jamaica won the 4x100m relay final in Rio.Bolt, 29, had won the 100m and 200m in Rio and is the only man to win all three sprint…

Three Syrian children drowned along with three adults when a wooden boat trying to carry war refugees to Europe capsized off the coast of Libya, a humanitarian rescue group said on Friday.The bodies of two girls, aged eight months…

The National Oil Corporation said an oil vessel from Greece "New Hellas" arrived Thursday in Zueitina oil terminal western Benghazi to start transfer 620 thousand oil barrels of oil from the depots in there to Azzawiya refinery in…

Sources in the Italian Prime Ministry said that the Italian PM Matteo Renzi had talked with the German chancellor Angelina Merkel and the French President François Hollande and viewed the Italian, German, French in the trilateral summit…

Syrian government jets have reportedly bombed Kurdish-held areas of the north-eastern city of Hassakeh for the first time since the civil war began in 2011.The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Kurdish…

Nearly 18,000 people have died in government prisons in Syria since the beginning of the uprising in 2011, according to Amnesty International.A new report by the charity, based on interviews with 65 "torture survivors", details…