US thanks Iran for swift release of 10 Navy sailors

The US has thanked Iran for the swift release of 10 US sailors held for entering its territorial waters.

Mosul gap remains between Turkey, Iraq

The gap between Ankara and Baghdad over the deployment of Turkish troops to a base near Mosul continues to widen, with the Iraqi Foreign Ministry set to lodge a formal complaint at the U.N. Security Council and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vowing that those forces will not be pulled back.