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Marines ready to take down ISIS in Iraq

The U.S. Department of Defense says a U.S. Marine was killed Saturday by enemy fire in northern Iraq after, according to reports, the United States military has begun staging a “couple hundred” Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit in the area. According to CNN, these Marines have begun constructing… Read More

Mass arrests in Cuba ahead of Obama visit

Ignoring criticism from Republican leaders and human rights groups alike, President Barack Obama has announced his plans to sit down with Cuban dictator Raul Castro today at Havana’s Palace of the Revolution. And when Obama and Castro meet, Obama will be lending credibility to a Cuban government that threw dozens… Read More

N. Korea ratchets up tensions with more weapons tests

North Korea fired five short-range projectiles into the sea on Monday, Seoul officials said, in a continuation of weapon launches it has carried out in an apparent response to ongoing South Korea-U.S. military drills it sees as a provocation. The projectiles launched from a site near the northeastern city of… Read More

European police stop terror massacre

Suspected terror mastermind Salah Abdeslam, the top suspect in last year’s Paris attacks, confessed to investigators after he was captured that they nabbed him in the nick of time. Abdeslam admitted he and the other terror suspects arrested over the weekend were planning new operations from Brussels and had access… Read More

Paris attack fugitive captured alive

Got him! The main fugitive from radical Islamic terror attacks in Paris in November, Salah Abdeslam, has been arrested in Belgium’s capital after four months at large, French police officials said Friday. The officials told The Associated Press that he was arrested Friday in a major police operation in the… Read More

American ISIS traitor: I did it for a girl

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,… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More