Children of foreign IS jihadis must be repatriated, U.N. says
UN investigators on Thursday called for thousands of children of jihadis who fought for the Islamic State group to be repatriated from Syria. The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria said in a report that the children were in a "particularly precarious" situation since they ...
First Gaza rockets fired against Israel since Qassem Soleimani killing
The Israeli military said four rockets were fired Wednesday from Hamas-controlled Gaza, the first since Israel's ally the U.S. killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. "Four rockets were just fired from Gaza at Israel. Two rockets were intercepted mid-air by the Iron Dome aerial defence ...
Encryption battle reignited as U.S. at loggerheads with Apple
Apple Inc. and the U.S. government are at loggerheads for the second time in four years over the unlocking of iPhones connected to a mass shooting, reviving debate over law enforcement access to encrypted devices. Attorney General Bill Barr claimed Monday that Apple failed to ...
French ex-spy boss blamed for deadly sinking of Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior dies at 95
French ex-secret service boss Pierre Lacoste, synonymous with the deadly sinking of Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior protest ship in New Zealand in 1985, has died at the age of 95, his family said. Lacoste died in a retirement home, his son, Marc, told AFP. "My father was ...
French summit aims to boost counterterror fight in West Africa
French and West African heads of states paid tribute Monday to French soldiers killed in Mali, in a symbolic ceremony ahead of a summit aimed at fighting escalating extremist attacks in Africa's Sahel region. Leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger and Mauritania have joined ...
U.S. calls fatal shooting by Saudi officer on Florida naval base 'act of terrorism'
The fatal shooting of three Americans by a Saudi Air Force officer at a Florida naval base last month was "an act of terrorism," U.S. Attorney General William Barr said on Monday, adding that 21 Saudi military trainees will be pulled out of the ...
Pentagon says two soldiers were killed in blast claimed by Taliban, IDs them
Two U.S. service members were killed and two others injured Saturday when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, the Pentagon said in a statement. Military officials identified the two soldiers killed as 29-year-old Staff Sgt. Ian P. McLaughlin of Newport ...
U.S. seen pulling Saudi military students after fatal shooting on Florida base
A number of military students from Saudi Arabia will be removed from a training program in the United States and returned to their home country after an investigation into a deadly shooting by a Saudi aviation student at a Florida navy base last month, ...
NATO critic Trump now floats expanding group to include Middle East
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he supported expanding the North American Treaty Organization to include Middle Eastern nations, as the United States seeks to limit its troop footprint globally. "I think that NATO should be expanded and we should include the Middle East, ...
25 soldiers killed as suspected jihadis strike Niger military
Islamic militants carried out another large assault on Niger's military Thursday, leaving at least 25 soldiers dead along with dozens of jihadis only a month after the worst attack of its kind in years, the military said. The latest violence blamed on extremists struck the ...
Western intelligence agencies see no signs Ukraine airliner was shot down, Canadian source says
The initial assessment of Western intelligence agencies is that a Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Iran on Wednesday was not brought down by a missile, said a Canadian security source. The source, who declined to be identified, said the agencies believed the Boeing 737 had ...
Al-Shabab warns of more attacks against Kenya and U.S. interests
Somali Islamist group al-Shabab on Wednesday warned Kenya "will never be safe," threatening tourists and calling for more attacks on U.S. interests after they stormed an American base at the weekend. The al-Qaida-linked group said its attack on Camp Simba, in which three Americans were ...
