U.S.-led coalition aims to recapture ISIS ‘caliphate’ in Iraq, Syria
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State aims this year to recapture Iraq’s second city Mosul, working with Iraqi government forces, and drive the jihadis out of Raqqa, their stronghold in northeast Syria, Arab and Western officials say.
EU designs permanent outer circle to keep Britain in
LONDON (Reuters) – The European Union formally abandoned on Tuesday the founding principle that all of its members are heading toward ever closer integration, only at different speeds.
Kenya holds trucks carrying food aid into Somalia on militant fears
NAIROBI (Reuters) – The Kenyan authorities are holding three trucks carrying food aid on behalf of World Food Programme (WFP) at the border with Somalia because of suspicions the supplies could fall into the hands of militants, a senior regional offici…
Britain rules out sending combat troops to Libya
ROME (Reuters) – Britain does not plan to deploy combat troops in Libya but will instead seek to give strategic and intelligence support to its new government, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Tuesday.
Ugandan general charged, jailed after criticizing long-ruling president
KAMPALA (Reuters) – A Ugandan general arrested after criticizing President Yoweri Museveni and voicing support for the opposition was charged in a military court on Tuesday and sent to a maximum security prison, according to his lawyer.
U.S., allies conduct 20 air strikes in Iraq, six in Syria: U.S. military
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and its allies conducted 20 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and six in Syria on Monday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement.
Stranded migrants block main Greece-Macedonia artery demanding passage
POLIKASTRO, Greece (Reuters) – Hundreds of migrants stranded in northern Greece blocked the main road to Macedonia on Tuesday, angry at delays to their journey north caused by protesting taxi drivers and farmers on the border, a Reuters cameraman said….
Migrants stranded in Greece by taxi, tractor protests
POLIKASTRO, Greece (Reuters) – At least 80 buses packed with migrants, many of them women and children, were backed up short of the Greek border with Macedonia on Tuesday, stranded by protests on either side of the frontier.
NATO strikes Islamic State radio station in Afghanistan, as U.S. ups campaign
KABUL (Reuters) – Coalition aircraft struck Islamic State’s new radio station in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar late on Monday, part of NATO’s escalating campaign to stop the ultra-radical Islamist movement taking root in the country.
Tycoon Tapie shapes up as Trump of French presidentials
PARIS (Reuters) – Bernard Tapie is considering a run for French president next year, a potentially far-reaching move even if it may not create quite the fuss that fellow tycoon Donald Trump has generated in the U.S. presidential primaries.
