Smoke billows on the front line as Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters hold a position near Hasan Sham village, some 45 kilometres east of the city of Mosul, during an operation aimed at retaking areas from the Daesh terrorist group on May 29, 2016. AFP
These are some of the headlines we are tracking for you in this edition of Press TV's Top 5:
- Sheikh Ali Salman, the leader of Bahrain's opposition movement, gets an extended jail term of nine years. Al-Wefaq calls it provocative.
- Daesh terrorists are losing their grip on the main stronghold of Fallujah, as Iraqi forces enter the city to liberate it from the Takfiri militants.
- The head of Syria’s Saudi-backed opposition resigns from the delegation to the Geneva discussions, citing the failure of the peace talks.
- Official data show Saudi Arabia’s foreign assets hit 5-hundred 72 billion dollars in April, the lowest in four years.
- Thousands demonstrate in Rome to denounce the Italian government's decision to deprive the so-called squatters of all free social services.
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