Iraq Declares War With Islamic State Over

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told a conference in Baghdad that Iraqi troops were now in complete control of the Iraqi-Syrian border and the country had survived "united and victorious".

Also in the programme; British foreign minister Boris Johnson in Tehran to discuss the fate of a British Iranian woman being held in prison there and; tens of thousands of people line the Champs Elysees in Paris to bid adieu to the rock and roll legend Jonny Hallyday.

Photo: Members of the Popular Mobilisation units watch the televised statement of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in the southern city of Basra on December9, 2017. Credit: Haidar Mohammed Ali/AFP/Getty Images)