Senior U.S. commanders say Iraqi forces are largely set for their next major campaign against Islamic State extremists. Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, says he sees the Iraqi assault on the IS-held area of Tal Afar “unfolding relatively soon.” The upcoming fight follows weeks of Iraq regrouping troops and repairing […]
1 American killed, 1 injured by Islamic terror attack in Spain
The State Department says at least one American was killed and one injured in the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils, Spain. In remarks to State Department staff on Friday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson confirmed the death and expressed condolences to the victim’s family. He said diplomats from the U.S. consulate in Barcelona are working […]
Spanish police desperately hunt Islamic terrorists (the latest)
Police shot and killed five people wearing fake bomb belts who staged a deadly car attack in a seaside resort in Spain’s Catalonia region Friday, just hours after a van plowed into pedestrians on a busy Barcelona promenade. Spanish authorities said the back-to-back vehicle attacks — as well as an explosion earlier this week in […]
U.S. general pledges to defend Japan from North Korea
America’s top military official reiterated Friday his country’s pledge to defend Japan against a North Korean missile attack, as western Japan carried out a test of an emergency alert system. “I think we made it clear to North Korea and anyone else in the region that an attack on one is an attack on both […]
Grammy-winning artist arrested in Guam for illegal drugs
Grammy Award-winning singer Yvonne Elliman-Alexander and her husband were arrested in Guam and charged with illegal drug possession. Guam Customs and Quarantine Agency dogs sniffed out methamphetamine and marijuana Tuesday as the two arrived on the island for a benefit concert at a school, The Pacific Daily News reported. Crystal-like rocks and a glass pipe […]
13 dead, 50+ wounded as Islamic terror strikes Barcelona
An Islamic terrorist has struck Europe again, mowing down scores of innocent people in a historic district of Barcelona, Spain on Thursday. The white van jumped up onto a sidewalk and sped down the pedestrian zone, swerving from side to side as it plowed into tourists and residents. Calling it a terror attack, police at […]
Steve Bannon: ‘No military solution to North Korea’
Contradicting a boss already under pressure to fire him, President Donald Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon says there’s no military solution to the threat posed by North Korea and its nuclear ambitions. Just last week, Trump pledged to answer North Korean aggression with “fire and fury.” In an interview with The American Prospect posted online […]
Stunning! 2,000-year-old Egyptian tombs discovered (incredible)
The contents of the mysterious tombs deep inside the Nile Valley had gone untouched and unseen by man for more than 2,000 years — until this week. Egypt’s antiquities ministry says that archaeologists have discovered three tombs dating back to the Ptolemaic Period, hidden inside burial chambers. Sponsored: The Garden of Eden secret you WON’T […]
Man who deliberately drove car into restaurant was high and suicidal
A security guard who deliberately rammed his car into a crowded pizzeria east of Paris, killing an adolescent girl, told investigators he was a suicidal habitual drug user and had consumed large amounts of medicines, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Eric de Valroger, a prosecutor in the town of Meaux east of Paris, told a press […]
Tillerson condemns ISIS genocide of Christians, others
The Trump administration denounced the Islamic State group on Tuesday for carrying out “genocide” against Christians and other religious minorities in areas under its control. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the group is “clearly responsible for genocide” against Christians and Yazidis in Iraq and Shiite Muslims in Syria and elsewhere. His comments were made […]
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