President Donald Trump punched back Friday at criticism that his Syria withdrawal is damaging U.S. credibility, betraying Kurdish allies and opening the door for a possible resurgence of the Islamic State. He touted a cease-fire agreement that seemed at risk as Turkey and Kurdish ...
Islamic State says it 'freed' women held by Syrian Kurds in Raqqa as other jihadis escape elsewhere
The Islamic State group said Thursday it had "freed" women held by Syria's Kurds, the latest in a series of reported breakouts since Turkey launched a cross-border offensive last week. In a statement released on the Telegram messaging application, IS said it had stormed a ...
Australian intelligence agency wants more resources to counter foreign interference
Australia's national intelligence agency said in a report this week that it does not have enough resources to collect intelligence on foreign agents and their efforts to interfere. Australia, a staunch U.S. ally, has been on heightened alert against the threat of home-grown radicals after ...
The Turkish military offensive in Syria has displaced at least 160,000 civilians, the U.N. secretary general said Monday in a statement urging an "immediate de-escalation." Secretary-General Antonio Guterres "is gravely concerned over the military developments in northeast Syria," the statement said. It said Guterres was urging ...
Turkey justifies Syria invasion by claiming right to self-defense under U.N. Charter
Turkey has justified its ongoing invasion of northeast Syria to the United Nations by saying it's exercising its right to self-defense under the U.N. Charter, according to a letter circulated Monday. Ankara said the military offensive was undertaken to counter an "imminent terrorist threat" and ...
Hundreds of Islamic State supporters flee Syria holding camp as U.S. pulls back
Hundreds of Islamic State supporters escaped from a holding camp in northern Syria on Sunday amid heavy clashes between invading Turkish-led forces and Kurdish fighters, and President Donald Trump ordered all U.S. troops to withdraw from the north to avoid getting caught in the ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Indian host Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged at an informal summit to cooperate against "radicalization," India said late Friday, after the Asian giants with historically prickly ties had exchanged sharp words over Kashmir. The seaside meeting aimed at mending ...
Merkel vows to fight hate after attempted 'massacre' at synagogue
Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Thursday there would be "zero tolerance" for hate in Germany after an attempted massacre at a synagogue, as Jews demanded action to protect the community from the rising threat of neo-Nazi violence. Two people were shot dead in the eastern German ...
Slain reporter James Foley's mother hopes Islamic State pair face U.S. charges
An American woman whose son was killed by the Islamic State said Thursday that she is hopeful the transfer to U.S. custody of two British militants brings them a step closer to criminal charges. Diane Foley told The Associated Press that she would like to ...
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday confirmed that al-Qaida's top bomb-maker, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, believed to be the mastermind behind the failed bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner in 2009, has been killed. Trump said in a White House statement that al-Asiri was killed in 2017 ...
Livestreamed killings in Germany test social media measures to block extremist content
Social media companies scrambled on Wednesday to scrub footage of a shooting outside a German synagogue from their platforms, in the first major test of their systems since a massacre in the New Zealand city of Christchurch prompted a global outcry. The attacker in Germany, ...
Gunman livestreamed attack fatal to two outside German synagogue after anti-Semitic online rant
A gunman killed two people in a synagogue and a nearby kebab shop on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, in an attack in the German city of Halle that he livestreamed on a video-gaming platform. Before he began shooting on Wednesday, ...
