BAGHDAD / AP US-backed Iraqi government troops announced on Wednesday they were in “full control” of eastern Mosul after routing IS militants from that part of the northern city, three months since the major operation started. The achievement was a “big victory,” said Iraqi Army Lt. Gen. Talib Shaghati, who commands the counter-terrorism forces, describing the success of the Iraqi …

  GAO / AP A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden vehicle attacked a camp in northern Mali on Wednesday, killing at least 50 people and wounding dozens of soldiers and former fighters now trying to stabilize the region. While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, suspicion quickly fell on the extremist groups operating in the area which oppose the 2015 …

  DAVOS / AP Lawrence Summers, the former US Treasury Secretary, has warned that Donald Trump’s threats to firms using Mexico as a manufacturing base will be counterproductive and could lead to the loss of hundreds of thousands of American jobs. Summers told a panel at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday that the president-elect’s “rhetoric and announced policies” over Mexico …