Iraqi government troops and allied paramilitary forces broke through the IS lines inside Tal Afar, reaching the centre of the city, the military reported on Friday.
According to an emergency decree published in the official gazette on Friday, hundreds of officials had been dismissed in the ongoing fallout from the 2016 coup in Turkey.
Angolan ruling MPLA party won the national election and ensured that the Defense Minister Joao Lourenco would be the country's next leader.
The US President Donald Trump is to begin a major push to reform tax policy next week, The Financial Times reported on Friday.
India's authorities has reported that India's Supreme Court declaration on the individual privacy that is a fundamental right for an each citizen, would have a big impact on the government.
Afghan officials reported that in a suicide attack on a Shi'ite mosque in Kabul had died at least 20 people and had been wounded more than 40 others. Among the victims were two police officers.
The President of France Emmanuel Macron during his visit to Poland announced that the government of the country is standing in the way of a compromise in the European regulation of Eastern European labour employment.
In the northern part of India a convicted self-proclaimed "godman" was convicted of the rape of two women. That triggered protests by a crowd of his supporters.
Due to Donald Trump announcing a new strategy in Afghanistan, US fighter pilots prepare for an escalation in the air strike amount.
On Friday Financial Times reported that President of the United States Donald Trump next week will start the major push for tax reform.
The ruling party of Angola, MPLA, as provisional results show, has taken 61.10% of the votes cast in the country's general election.
On Friday the troops of the Chinese People's Liberation Army were seen on the streets of Macau helping in the aftermath of the recent typhoon.
According to the Interfax news agency, not less than 18 people died and eight more got injured after a bus plunged into the Black Sea.
According to the Afghani police, an unknown suicide bomber blew himself up at the gate of a mosque in Kabul; no casualties had been reported yet.
On Friday, the President of France Emmanuel Macron said that Poland was distancing itself from Europe by refusing to find compromise on the EU rules on the employment of work force from low income countries.
Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO Secretary General, said on Friday that Russia needs to be more transparent about its joint military drills with Belarus. He also added that the alliance would carefully watch these exercises.
On Friday, the former chief executive of Samsung Wang Min was jailed to five years after he was found guilty of paying bribes to former South Korean leader Park Geun-hye.
The former Thai commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom was jailed to 42 years after he was found guilty of falsifying intra-state rice agreements with China.
Computacenter, the IT services provider, stated that its mid-year adjusted revenue rose 15% to $2.18M, helped by strong expansion in Germany and supportive currency impact.
A study revealed that Frankfurt would have a good potential to become a ‘little London' after Brexit, as tens of thousands new positions are set be created, boosting German banking capital.
Japan's automaker Subaru is set to book a $741.5M as a special loss in the H1, as it anticipates higher expenses due to the recall of the Takata-made airbag inflator.
Saudi Arabia and China announced that both countries reached a consensus on enhancing bilateral cooperation in the fields of finance, energy and industrial capacity.
Labour unions the United Auto Workers and Unifor would meet Chrystia Freeland, the Canada's Foreign Minister, to discuss plans for the next round of NAFTA talks in Mexico.
China is set to tighten controls on intellectual property in attempt to ensure to foreign firms better opportunities, the country's Commerce Ministry stated.