The Iraqi military says five Daesh suicide bombers and two security members have been killed during the Iraqi forces’ raid against a hideout near the Arab country’s capital of Baghdad.

Top Afghan officials, including chief executive Abdullah Abdullah, Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani, Ahmad Wali Massoud, brother of Afghanistan’s national hero Ahmad Shah Massoud, and many political elites of Afghanistan plus a number of foreign ambassadors have come together in Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry to mark the 18th assassination anniversary of the country's National hero Ahmad Shah Massoud.