The American Islamic State group fighter who handed himself over to Kurdish forces in Iraq’s north earlier this week says he made “a bad decision” joining IS, according to a heavily edited interview he gave to an Iraqi Kurdish television station that aired late Thursday night. Mohamad Jamal Khweis, 26, from Alexandria, Virginia detailed his […]
Tourists flock to Dublin for St. Patrick’s Day
Tourism officials forecast a record crowd for the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Dublin, centerpiece of a weeklong festival celebrating Ireland’s patron saint. An estimated 125,000 visitors are joining hundreds of thousands of locals at Thursday’s two-hour parade down O’Connell Street to St. Patrick’s Cathedral in central Dublin. In his St. Patrick’s message the leader […]
Female suicide bombers kill 24 in Nigeria
Two female suicide bombers killed at least 24 worshippers and wounded 18 in an attack during dawn prayers Wednesday on a mosque on the outskirts of the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, officials said from the birthplace of Boko Haram. One bomber blew up inside the mosque and the second waited outside to detonate as […]
WWII Secret Service archives revealed
French historians on Wednesday unveiled secret services’ archives from World War II that offer a unique insight into underground operations led by both the Nazis and the French resistance — along with the individual paths taken by thousands of agents, including celebrities like French designer Coco Chanel. Most of the letters, reports, cables and photos […]
North Korea sentences American student to 15 years in prison
North Korea’s highest court sentenced an American tourist to 15 years in prison with hard labor for subversion on Wednesday, weeks after authorities presented him to media and he tearfully confessed that he had tried to steal a propaganda banner. Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia undergraduate, was convicted and sentenced in a one-hour trial […]
Details emerge on pilot who crashed commuter plane into Swiss mountains
U.S. safety regulators initially declined to grant medical clearance for a German pilot who five years later deliberately flew an airliner full of people into a mountainside in the French Alps. A lawyer for victims’ families says they missed a chance to head off the disaster. As Andreas Lubitz prepared in June 2010 to come […]
Huge manhunt for suspected ISIS fighters after shootout
Belgian investigators were hunting Wednesday for two suspects who fled an apartment linked to the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, after a police sniper killed a third man and uncovered weapons, ammunition and an Islamic State flag, officials said Wednesday. Four officers were wounded in the joint French-Belgian raid in a Brussels neighborhood and related […]
Son of Muslim immigrants commits terror attack in Toronto
Ayanie Hassan Ali, 27, was born in Montreal to Muslim immigrants. Authorities say he thanked his adopted country by committing a terror attack against Canadian soldiers, stabbing two at the Canadian military center in Toronto on Monday. “Allah told me to do this, Allah told me to come here and kill people,” Ali shouted, according […]
US troops kill top ISIS commander
It’s a message that’s starting to resonate among ISIS fighters who are beginning to desert the front lines in droves: Wage jihad against the United States, and our Air Force will find you. That’s what happened to top Islamic State commander and feared ethnic Chechen jihadi fighter Omar al-Shishani, who died Monday of wounds suffered in […]
Russian military pulls out of Syria
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a partial pullout of the Russian military from Syria, voicing hope that the move will contribute to the success of Syria peace talks that began Monday. Announcing his decision in a televised meeting with Russia’s foreign and defense ministries, the president said the Russian air campaign has allowed Syrian […]
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