Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Wholesale City, the global integrated wholesale trading hub, and a member of TECOM Group, announced the beginning of excavation works during a ceremony that was attended by Abdulla Belhoul, Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Wholesale City, as well as representatives from TECOM Group; senior officials, employees of Dubai Wholesale City and representatives from the …

Aleppo / AFP Syrian pro-government forces pushed forward inside rebel-held Aleppo on Tuesday, prompting civilians to flee, as the regime pressed an assault to recapture the entire city. A week into the latest round of fighting for the city, Syrian troops had taken control of a third of the key eastern neighbourhood of Masaken Hanano, the Syrian Observatory for Human …

  Mosul / AFP The US-led coalition bombed a key bridge in Mosul on Tuesday to isolate extremists whose stiff resistance in the east of the city is threatening to bog down Iraqi forces. The number of civilians displaced since last month’s start of the offensive against Mosul—the IS group’s last stronghold in Iraq—rose to 68,000, but most of the …