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As Congress continues to stop another government shutdown, Trump is planning an emergency fund to build a widely condemned wall on the Mexican border.
Al Qaeda fighters in southern Libya have taken advantage of the country's chaos.
Oil prices edged up more than 2 percent following the announcement.
The US-led coalition says it has hit a mosque it claimed was being used by the Islamic State group near the town of Baghouz in eastern Syria.
The US-led coalition says it has hit a mosque it claimed was being used by the Islamic State group near the town of Baghouz in eastern Syria.
Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan arrived in Baghdad on an unannounced visit on Tuesday for talks on the sensitive issue of a continued troop presence following withdrawal from neighbouring Syria.
Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan arrived in Baghdad on an unannounced visit on Tuesday for talks on the sensitive issue of a continued troop presence following withdrawal from neighbouring Syria.
The African Union called for a global conference in July to try to resolve the conflict and hold elections in Libya.
American soldiers who were deployed to fight Islamic State jihadis will start returning within weeks, said a top US army commander, following a shock announcement by Donald Trump in December.
Under the deal, the teachers will end their strike and "return to work to make the school year a success" said the head of the secondary school teachers' union.
Turkey lambasted China's treatment of its Muslim ethnic Uighur people as 'a great embarrassment for humanity'.
A special UN rapporteur said on Thursday that the killing was "planned and perpetrated" by Saudi officials.
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