Europe and Russia launched a joint mission Monday to explore the atmosphere of Mars and hunt for signs of life on the red planet. The unmanned ExoMars probe— a collaboration between the European Space Agency and Roscosmos — took off from a base in Kazakhstan aboard a Russian rocket and is expected to reach Mars […]
American ISIS fighter surrenders
An American member of the Islamic State group decided he had enough of jihad against the West and surrendered to U.S. allies Monday. The man gave himself up to Iraqi Kurdish forces in the country’s north on Monday, an Iraqi Kurdish general said, a rare instance of a voluntary surrender of a militant fighting with […]
North Korea launches increased cyber attacks
South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers Friday that the number of North Korean cyber attacks on the South has doubled over the past month. The National Intelligence Service told a parliamentary committee meeting that the North unsuccessfully tried to hack into the railway control system and computer networks of financial institutions in South Korea, according […]
Death toll in Turkey terror attack rises to 37
Turkey’s air force hit Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq on Monday, hours after a suicide car bombing in the capital killed 37 people and heightened tensions with the militants. Nine F-16s and two F-4 jets raided 18 positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, in northern Iraq, including the Qandil mountains where the […]
Mystery surrounds beating death of Putin’s ex-aide
A day after authorities in Washington confirmed an autopsy shows blunt force trauma caused the death of a former aide to the Russian president, Russian officials say they’ve been requesting information about the probe without results. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a Facebook post Friday that the Russian Embassy made multiple requests for […]
8 men sentenced to jail for enslaving fishermen
Five Thai fishing boat captains and three Indonesians were sentenced Thursday to three years in jail for human trafficking in connection with slavery in the seafood industry. The suspects were arrested in the remote island village of Benjina last May after the abuse was revealed by The Associated Press in a report two months earlier. […]
Data leak exposes Americans working for ISIS
A British television network, Sky News, has reportedly obtained more than 22,000 Islamic State files that detail ISIS fighters’ real names, where they’re from, telephone numbers, and even names of those who sponsored and recruited the militants hiding in America. Now, previously anonymous ISIS fighters that were laying in wait across the country and around the […]
US to N. Korea: Bring it on! Air Force sends message with B-2 bombers
The U.S. says it has dispatched three B-2 stealth bombers on a training mission to the Asia-Pacific region amid growing tensions with North Korea. The deployment was announced Wednesday by U.S. Strategic Command, which is responsible for U.S. nuclear forces. B-2 bombers are capable of launching nuclear as well as conventional weapons. They are based […]
Air Force veteran guilty of trying to join ISIS
A U.S. Air Force veteran was convicted Wednesday of terrorism charges for attempting to join the Islamic State group and die a martyr, the first verdict from more than 70 cases the government has brought against Americans accused of trying to support the militant group. An anonymous jury in Brooklyn began deliberations Tuesday afternoon in […]
US Special Forces launch daring raid, kill 10 terrorists
Hoping to capture a high-profile target, Somali and U.S. Special Forces hopped off helicopters a couple of miles from an al-Shabab-controlled town, slipped through the dark and got into a fierce firefight that reportedly killed more than 10 Islamic extremists, U.S. and Somali officials said. U.S. forces were serving in an advisory role and provided […]
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