DUBAI / WAM Expo 2020 Dubai is to join a high-profile delegation at Dubai Week in China (DWIC) to build and reinforce strategic relationships and highlight the opportunities that the mega-event presents. A team from Expo 2020 Dubai will attend ‘Dubai Week in China 2016’ from October 27-29, which aims to promote trade between Dubai and China. Expo 2020’s …

  KHAZER / AP Iraqi special forces have moved more than 1,000 people out of villages near the front lines of the battle to retake the IS -held city of Mosul and surrounding areas, where the UN says militants have committed a number of abuses in recent days, officials said on Wednesday. Special forces Maj. Gen. Haider Fadhil said residents …

  Beirut / AFP Air strikes on Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province hit a school and the surrounding area on Wednesday, killing at least 26 civilians including many children, a monitor and activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said “warplanes—either Russia or Syrian—carried out six strikes” in the village of Hass, including on a school complex. The Britain-based Observatory, which …