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Meet the new anti-ISIS fighters

Barcham Zana knows her enemy. It is the Islamic State, which she calls “darkness.” Islamic State militants killed two cousins, she said. For her, the group is not an abstract threat. The 20-year-old spoke through a Syrian interpreter at a rudimentary training camp surrounded by golden waves of wheat in… Read More

The search is on! French navy joins EgyptAir hunt

The French navy said Monday that one of its ships has joined the search for the wreckage of EgyptAir Flight 804, focusing especially on the hunt for its flight recorders, as questions remain over what caused the Airbus 320 to crash over the Mediterranean, killing all 66 on board. Five… Read More

ISIS slaughters 80 in Syria

A series of coordinated blasts hit bus stations, an electricity plant and a hospital across two Syrian cities Monday, killing at least 80 people in the first major security breach of President Bashar Assad’s coastal strongholds in the country’s five-year war. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack… Read More

[Terror alert] ISIS planning major U.S. attack

Next week kicks off the unofficial start to summer – but Islamic terrorists are hoping to launch something else entirely, and it has security experts concerned. ISIS commanders are ordering followers to launch a major attack on Americans on U.S. soil in “celebration” of the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, which… Read More

Obama to arm Vietnam against China

For many Americans, the physical and psychological wounds of the Vietnam War are still fresh, decades later. And today President Obama is reopening some of those wounds with a controversial plan to begin arming Vietnam to the teeth. Obama has just lifted a half-century-old ban on selling arms to Vietnam,… Read More

Got him! US Air Force kills Taliban leader

President Barack Obama announced Monday that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Akhtar Mansour has been killed by a US airstrike. “It has been confirmed that he is dead,” Obama said Monday during his first visit to Vietnam. “He is an individual who, as head of the Taliban, was specifically targeting U.S…. Read More

Horror at sea! New clues revealed in EgyptAir crash

It’s a scene of carnage in the Mediterranean. But it holds invaluable clues that investigators are hoping unravel the mystery behind the deadly crash. Egyptian air and naval forces have spotted body parts among passengers’ personal belongings and other debris from EgyptAir flight 804 that crashed Wednesday, killing 66 passengers… Read More

[Exclusive] Recovering Jesus’ baptismal site

It’s been called the “river of life,” but for almost 50 years, the spot in the River Jordan where Jesus Christ was baptized has been a place of death. Churches stand abandoned, surrounded by signs that warn visitors, “Danger! Mines!” But the landmines that were left behind after the 1967… Read More

Canadian Prime Minister apologizes for stray elbow

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized before the Canadian Parliament for a third time Thursday, saying he expects better behavior of himself after elbowing a female lawmaker in the chest and grabbing another lawmaker. Trudeau, 44, said he should not have made physical contact with the one lawmaker and said he… Read More