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Muslim migrants who live in Greece pray at the Greek-Arab Cultural Center, a Muslim prayer site in Athens, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016. Lawmakers in Greece have approved construction of a state-funded mosque near central Athens, a proposal that triggered dissent within the country’s coalition government amid a heated public debate on how manage the migrant crisis. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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Manbij Military Council Now Controls 80% of the City
Kurdish leaders have confirmed that Manbij Military Council forces now control 80 percent of the total area of the city Manbij which is located in northern Syria. They also spoke of the “break down” of ISIS after its soldiers were besieged in small areas in the old...Caption:
Jan Egeland (L) Senior Advisor to the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria speaks during a press conference with UN Deputy Special Envoy for Syria, Ramzy E. Ramzy (not pictured) about the International Syria Support Group’s Humanitarian Access Task Force, at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, 02 June 2016. EPA/MARTIAL TREZZINI
U.N. Hopeful of Humanitarian Pause in Aleppo Fighting
The United Nations said on Thursday that intensive diplomacy and exertions are invested to try to broker a humanitarian ceasefire in the Syrian city of Aleppo, and it hoped to see an agreement for a comprehensive humanitarian plan in the next few days. The battle for...Caption:
In this file photograph taken on October 30, 2014, Afghan youths ride their bicycles past the historic minarets of Herat province. The minarets, built by Queen Gowhar Shad in 1417, received heavy damage in past wars with the British and Soviets. Only five of its over twenty minarets are still standing today. Taliban militants attacked a group of 12 American and European tourists escorted by an Afghan army convoy in western Herat province on August 4, 2016, leaving at least seven people wounded as the insurgents step up nationwide attacks. The tourists — eight British, three Americans and one German national — were ambushed by Taliban gunmen in the restive district of Chesht-e-Sharif, while en route from the neighbouring provinces of Bamiyan and Ghor. / AFP PHOTO / Aref Karimi
Foreign Tourists Wounded in Attack in Western Afghanistan
Six foreign tourists and their driver were wounded in Afghanistan on Thursday in an attack by gunslingers on their convoy as it passed through western Herat province, Afghan government officials said. The group of at least a dozen travelers included eight British...Caption:
In this Friday, Sept. 19, 2014, file photo, people wait to buy the new Apple iPhone 6 and 6 Plus devices outside an Apple store in Hong Kong. Apple is embroiled in a Chinese patent dispute that threatens to block future sales of the iPhone 6 in Beijing unless the company can overturn a regulator’s recent ruling. The potential ban stems from a decision issued in May 2016 by the Beijing Intellectual Property Office. The agency found the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus infringed on a Chinese company’s patent for the exterior design of its smartphone called the 100C. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)