Iraqi forces press ahead with Fallujah offensive

Iraqi pro-government fighters take part in an operation in al-Shahabi village, east of Fallujah, to retake the city from Daesh terrorist group, on May 24, 2016.

These are some of the headlines we are tracking for you in this edition of Press TV's Top 5:

  • Iraqi forces press ahead with their large-scale operation to flush Daesh terrorists out of Fallujah, liberating two villages northeast of the city.
  • Pakistan says it still cannot confirm the death of the Afghan Taliban leader Mulla Akhtar Mansour after the US claimed he was killed in a drone strike.
  • A new report by an Israeli NGO suggests that 77 percent of Israeli hate crimes against the Palestinians go without indictment.
  • Hundreds of gas stations in France are shuttered as the workers of the country’s eight oil refineries join a national strike over new labor laws.
  • The UN says Lake Chad Basin is witnessing the world's most neglected humanitarian crisis, as a result of poverty, climate change, and terror in the West African region.

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