Spain busts gang that helped 'finance al-Qaida militia' in Syria
Spanish police on Tuesday detained 10 nationals of Syrian origin accused of financing "al-Qaida terrorist militia" in Syria, the interior ministry and a source close to the probe said. With Europol's collaboration, more than 350 agents took part in an operation in Madrid, farther south ...
Machete-wielding attackers descended on Esther Nzale's village in northeastern Congo eight days ago around noon, setting houses on fire and hacking to death her husband and others. "Some people were burned alive inside the houses," Nzale said from a camp for displaced persons more than ...
Japan distancing itself from U.S. claims of Iranian involvement in tanker attacks
The government is avoiding taking sides in the dispute surrounding U.S. claims of Iranian involvement in Thursday's attacks on two oil tankers, including one operated by a Japanese company, near the Strait of Hormuz. In order not to harm Japan's traditional friendly ties with Iran, ...
Boko Haram suspected as triple suicide bombing in northeast Nigeria kills 30
Thirty people were killed late Sunday in a triple suicide bombing in northeast Nigeria, emergency services reported, in an attack bearing the hallmarks of the Boko Haram jihadist group. Three bombers detonated their explosives outside a hall in Konduga, 38 km (24 miles) from the ...
Kyushu Electric to take reactor offline in March due to delay in building anti-terrorism facility
Kyushu Electric Power Co. will be forced to halt a Kagoshima Prefecture nuclear reactor next March due to a delay in the construction of a facility meant to prepare for possible terrorist attacks, company officials said. The No. 1 reactor at the Fukuoka-based company's Sendai ...
U.S. reportedly consulting allies on how to protect shipping after Gulf of Oman tanker attacks
The United States is discussing with its allies a variety of options on how to protect international shipping in the Gulf of Oman in the wake of tanker attacks that Washington has blamed on Iran, senior Trump administration officials said on Thursday. Two officials, speaking ...
Florida nightclub massacre anniversary elicits somber memorials and rebuke of governor
Three years after a gunman massacred 49 people and wounded many others at a gay nightclub in central Florida, the anniversary was being observed Wednesday with somber memorial gatherings and proclamations, including one that had to be issued twice. In a proclamation, Florida Gov. Ron ...
Six combatants killed as rebels ambush Indian troops in Kashmir
Rebels fighting against Indian rule in disputed Kashmir launched an attack on paramilitary soldiers on Wednesday, killing five, officials said. One militant also died in the fighting. At least two militants in a car approached soldiers patrolling streets in the southern town of Anantnag and ...
Ghanaian security forces on Wednesday freed two young Canadian women who had been kidnapped at a golf club in the city of Kumasi last week, the government said. "National Security Operatives in the early hours of Wednesday 12 June, 2019 completed an operation which successfully ...
Islamic State seen expanding reach in Afghanistan and threatening West
The Islamic State group has lost its caliphate in Syria and Iraq, but in the forbidding mountains of northeastern Afghanistan the group is expanding its footprint, recruiting new fighters and plotting attacks on the United States and other Western countries, according to U.S. and ...
Syria Kurds alarmed as fire ravages wheat fields near oil installations
A Kurdish official in northeast Syria called for help from the U.S.-backed coalition Monday as fires ravaged through vital wheat fields in the latest of such blazes nationwide. Syria's Kurds have led the fight against the Islamic State group in the north and east of ...
At least 95 feared dead in new ethnic massacre in central Mali
Unknown assailants killed at least 95 people in a central Mali village overnight, government officials said Monday, the latest massacre in a growing ethnic conflict driven by fear and suspicion over alleged ties to extremist groups once limited to the West African country's north. There ...
