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Iraqi security forces arrest senior IS militant

The Iraqi Council of Ministers announced compensation for the victims of the fire that broke out during a wedding in Mosul, which led to the death and injury of hundreds of people. In parallel, Prime Minister Mohammad Shiaa Al-Sudani ordered the harshest penalties to be imposed on officials of administrative units in Nineveh Governorate as a result of negligence that caused the fire. The tragic incident was ignited by fireworks within the venue hall, and led to the loss of at least one hundred lives in the town of Qaraqosh, part of Al-Hamdaniya district.

The footage shown on local TV showed flames spreading over the wedding hall in Iraq while the couple were dancing, before the fire soon engulfed the whole room

France's President Emmanuel Macron's new special envoy for Lebanon heads to Beirut in the coming week as France seeks a new push to end a political crisis that has left the country without a president for over half a year, a diplomatic source said Sunday. Former foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, appointed by Macron to the role earlier this month, is to fly to Beirut on Wednesday, the source told AFP, asking not to be named.

Kataib Babiliyoun pretends to be a local Christian unit, but its members have been recruited from Shia Muslim communities in southern Iraq with the goal of dominating Iraq's strategic Nineveh Plains region.