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Iraq says most of Fallujah retaken from IS militants

Edit The Miami Herald 18 Jun 2016
Haider al-Obedi told the Associated Press that his troops controlled 80 percent of the city, with IS fighters now concentrated in four districts on its northern edge ... In the early hours, special forces pushed into Fallujah's central al-Nazzal district, which had served as a base for the militants with weapons warehouses and command centers, al-Obeidi said ... They had not been there since the beginning of 2014," al-Obeidi said....

Iraq says most of Fallujah retaken from Islamic State militants

Edit Denver Post 18 Jun 2016
Haider al-Obedi told the Associated Press that his troops controlled 80 percent of the city, with IS fighters now concentrated in four districts on its northern edge ... In the early hours, special forces pushed into Fallujah’s central al-Nazzal district, which had served as a base for the militants with weapons warehouses and command centers, al-Obeidi said ... They had not been there since the beginning of 2014,” al-Obeidi said....

Maharashtra govt plans stringent Public Security Act

Edit Indian Express 18 Jun 2016
Terror laws comparedEx-Infosys engineer held in IM case gets bailMahato slipping out of UAPA muddle,top cops go in a huddlePolice yet to act on withdrawing UAPA chargesThane theatre blast ... organisations, the new proposed Act seeks to empower the district collector to grant permission, making it easy for the police to move against the targets....

Leonardo DiCaprio is ordered deposed over ‘Wolf of Wall Street’

Edit The Himalayan 18 Jun 2016
n">A federal judge has ordered actor Leonardo DiCaprio to be deposed in a defamation lawsuit brought by a former Stratton Oakmont executive over his alleged depiction in the 2013 Martin Scorsese film “The Wolf of Wall Street.” ... Greene was a childhood friend of Belfort ... The case is Greene v Paramount Pictures Corp et al, US District Court, Eastern District of New York, No. 14-01044.   ... ....

At least 13 were killed in the airstrikes which targeted the cities of Al-Raqqah and al-Tabaqa (SOHR - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Jun 2016
Al-Raqqah Province.. warplanes bombed places in the city of al-Tabaqa west of Al-Raqqah province, which killed a citizen woman and a young man in addition to injuring others, while a citizen was killed and 4 members from the 'Islamic State' ......

Breakthrough: Iraqi forces at center of Daesh-held Fallujah

Edit Arabnews 18 Jun 2016
Haidar Al-Obeidi, of the special forces, told The Associated Press that his troops are now besieging the nearby central hospital, clashing with Daesh snipers in adjacent buildings ... It is not clear where the patients in the hospital are, if there are any, Al-Obeidi said ... They had not been there since the beginning of 2014,” Al-Obeidi told AP ... Al-Obeidi said there were no civilians in Al-Nazzal neighborhood....

20 Hezbollah between 62 killed during clashes against rebels in Aleppo countryside (SOHR - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Jun 2016
Rose to 9 the number of civilians who were killed in Aleppo city today including 3 ( a child ) were killed by aerial bombardment on al-Halwania turning in Tariq al-bab neighborhood, ... Aerial bombardment targeted al-Mallah, The Castello, and Hreitan, no reports of losses....

Vimeo wins US appeal in music copyright case

Edit Indian Express 18 Jun 2016
The law protects internet service providers from liability when users upload copyrighted content while requiring them to remove ... Share This Article. Related Article ... 6, slideMargin. 3 }); }); ... US District Judge Ronnie Abrams in 2013 ruled Vimeo was protected under the DMCA safe harbor provisions with regard to 153 videos ... The case is Capitol Records LLC et al v. Vimeo LLC et al, 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 14-1048. ....

Casualties and injuries in bombing on the eastern Ghouta and 5 raids target places there (SOHR - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Jun 2016
Clashes are taking place between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against Islamic factions in Al-Bahariyah area in the Eastern Ghouta, amid aerial bombardment and artillery shelling on the ......

Deal in methane pollution dispute would bring little change

Edit The Oklahoman 18 Jun 2016
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. government has reached an agreement to end a dispute over greenhouse gas emissions from federal oil and gas leases in Montana with only modest changes to current practices ... Now it's a priority for the administration," he said ... BLM spokesman Al Nash referred questions to the Department of Justice, which did not respond immediately to a request for comment ... District Judge Sam Haddon ... ....

Fifteen security personnel killed in IS attack in Northern Iraq

Edit Indian Express 18 Jun 2016
“Twelve people, six members of the police and six of the Hashed al-Turkmani were killed in the fighting against Daesh (IS),” said Abu Ridha al-Najjar, the local leader of the Turkmen group ... The Hashed al-Turkmani is a local branch of the Hashed al-Shaabi, a national umbrella organisation dominated by Tehran-backed Shiite militias....

SNC steps up food aid drive during Ramadan

Edit Arabnews 18 Jun 2016
An official on Thursday said the SNC distributed 12,000 Iftar meals among the refugees at the border crossings of Bab Al-Hawa, Al-Salamah and Altin-Ouz as well as on the countryside of Idlib and Aleppo under its Ramadan help program ... an agreement with the Al-Tajmouat University, Amman, to distribute dry meals among the Syrians living in Jordan....

IS to make a stand in Falluja, face Mosul uprising: Iraqi general

Edit The Himalayan 18 Jun 2016
Troops recaptured Falluja’s municipal building on Friday, although the ultra-hardline militants are still holed up in several districts and have left many streets and buildings laced with explosives ... He said the Hashid would likely not be needed either in the campaign for the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul, a predominately Sunni city which Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has pledged to retake this year....
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