(VOVworld) – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the US strongly condemned the devastating bomb attack on July 17th in Baghdad which left over 100 civilians killed and voiced their support...
(VOVworld) – Iraqi police and medics reported that more than 100 people were killed in a suicide car bombing at a busy market in an Iraqi town on Friday, in one...
(VOVworld) – Iraq closed its border with Jordan until further notice several days after Iraqi military forces launched a campaign to drive Islamic State militants out of Anbar province
(VOVworld) - The contest “What do you know about Vietnam?” has closed. On the June 30 deadline, we received from John Rutledge of China; Muhammad Ibrar, Abiha Fatima, and Hamad Kiani of Pakistan; Saroj Bharti, Soumya Bhattacharjee,...
(VOVworld) - Iraqi security forces in the Al-Tash region killed Mohammad Eid, a senior commander of IS on the third day of an ongoing large-scale military operation to liberate...
(VOVworld) – The World Bank has approved its first financial aid worth 350 million USD to support the reconstruction process in Iraqi towns recaptured from Islamic State militants
(VOVworld) – Egypt’s Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab and Yemen’s Vice President and Premier Khaled Bahah signed several cooperation agreements, including an anti-terrorism agreement on Sunday
(VOVworld) – US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter this week defended President Barack Obama’s strategy to defeat the Islamic State, but admitted that there are difficulties recruiting in Syria and Iraq...
(VOVworld) - President Barack Obama pledged to increase US support for the moderate opposition in Syria's civil war on Monday and said the United States needed to do more at...
(VOVworld) - A bomb fell from an Iraqi Sukhoi warplane and exploded in eastern Baghdad on Monday, killing at least seven people and wounding 11 others, according to security and medical...
A: First on our show today, we’d like to thank you all for participating in VOV’s Contest “What do you know about Vietnam?” which closed on Tuesday. Last week...
(VOVworld) - A total of 40 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed on Saturday in US-led coalition air strikes and clashes with Iraqi security forces and allied militias in Iraq's...
(VOVworld) – The US-led campaign against the Islamic State (IS) is troubled with difficulties and restrictions, US officials said on Wednesday
(VOVworld) – US President Barack Obama announced Wednesday the deployment of 450 additional troops to Iraq, deepening US involvement in the fight against the Islamic State (IS)
(VOVworld) – US President Barack Obama said on Monday he was confident Islamic State militants (IS) would be driven out of Iraq and defeated
(VOVworld) – Iraqi troops backed by Shiite militias recaptured key parts of the northern refinery town of Beiji and some strategic places near Fallujah from the Islamic State on Sunday
(VOVworld) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir announced on Saturday a new government with changes to key ministerial posts including defense, foreign affairs and petroleum. The announcement came days after the president was sworn in...
(VOVworld) - The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has decided to keep its production levels of 30 million barrels per day for the next six months. Iraqi Oil Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi...
(VOVworld) – Saudi Arabia has appointed Thamer Al-Sabhan as its ambassador to Iraq – the first Saudi Ambassador in Baghdad in 25 years
(VOVworld) – A suicide car bomb detonated at a military base in Iraq's western province of Anbar on Monday, killing at least 38 members of the security force and wounding 25 others. The attack...