North Korea took a significant step Wednesday in the development of a powerful ballistic missile intended to reach U.S. bases in the Pacific, launching one of the weapons about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) high after five failed attempts in recent months. The North’s suspected Musudan tests worry Washington and its […]
Boeing makes huge Iran aircraft deal
Boeing Co. said Tuesday it signed an agreement with Iran Air “expressing the airline’s intent” to buy its aircraft, setting up the biggest business deal between the Islamic Republic and America since the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran — if it goes through. Already, one Iranian official has said […]
Terror hoax? Man with fake suicide belt sparks alert
A man wearing a fake explosive belt filled with salt and cookies sparked a major security alert and an emergency meeting of key government ministers Tuesday by claiming he would be blown up outside a downtown Brussels shopping center. Police said the man claimed to have been abducted and dropped […]
Justice! 2,500 ISIS fighters killed in Fallujah
Iraq’s government forces on Tuesday dislodged the Islamic State group from two northern neighborhoods of Fallujah as an Iraqi military commander claimed the month-long offensive to recapture the city had left 2,500 IS militants dead. The announcements came just days after the government had declared the liberation of Fallujah, the […]
Iraqi forces take back Fallujah
Thousands of civilians are fleeing Fallujah after the city was declared liberated from the Islamic State group, the United Nations said, while an Iraqi commander reported fierce clashes as elite counterterrorism forces pushed to clear out the remaining militants. IS fighters launched missiles, detonated a suicide car bomb and deployed […]
Massive Iranian terror plot disrupted
Iranian intelligence officials have broken up one of the “biggest terrorist” plots ever planned to target Tehran and other provinces in the Islamic Republic, the country’s state media reported on Monday. The reports quote the country’s Intelligence Ministry as saying that it has arrested several suspects in the plot to […]
Russia’s Olympic bans upheld
When Olympians take to the track in Rio this summer, there won’t be any Russians among them. The IAAF has upheld its ban on Russia’s track and field team for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, it was announced Friday. The Russian sports ministry says it was notified of the decision […]
Iran: We’ll set fire to nuke deal
The Obama Administration has had eight years of embarrassing failures, but this could be the biggest one yet. Iran is threatening to “set fire to” the sweetheart nuclear deal — just one year after the White House claimed they had an ironclad pact with the mad ayatollahs of the Middle […]
ISIS on the brink of defeat?
Iraqi special forces entered the center of Fallujah city early Friday, taking over a government complex and a neighborhood that served as a base for the Islamic State group militants after intense fighting, a commander said. Analysts consider it a signal that ISIS is on the brink of defeat in […]
Christian militias hope for US help in the fight against ISIS
Clutching his rifle intently, the Iraqi recruit maneuvered between piles of bricks and cement obstacles. The sound of shooting pierced the air and he jumped behind a wall, lifted his rifle and imitated the staccato sound of gunfire. It was only a training exercise — the man is among the […]
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