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FBI agents' association warns of harm from U.S. shutdown to crime-fighting and national security
The association that represents thousands of FBI agents warned Thursday that a partial government shutdown could cause laboratory delays, reduce money for investigations and make it harder to recruit and retain agents. The FBI Agents Association sent a petition to the White House and congressional ...
Hundreds of foreign Islamic State fighters have been captured in Syria, and what to do with them has become a problem for the Trump administration as it prepares to pull American troops from the country. An administration official said determining the fate of these prisoners, ...
Kurds capture eight Islamic State jihadis, including U.S. teen, in Syria
A Syrian Kurdish militia said Wednesday its fighters have captured eight foreign fighters with the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, including an American teenager. The force known as the People's Protection Units, or YPG, said the militants were captured earlier in the week in ...
More than 30,000 flee Boko Haram violence in northern Nigeria: U.N.
Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in northeast Nigeria after an increase in violence in the Boko Haram conflict, the United Nations said on Wednesday. "More than 30,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) have arrived in Maiduguri, mainly from Baga, in recent weeks," ...
Russian military police patrol around Syria's Manbij after U.S.-backed Kurds withdraw
Russian military police have begun patrolling around the Syrian city of Manbij, a spokesman said Tuesday, moving into an area once held by U.S.-backed Kurdish forces. Russian forces are acting in support of Syrian government troops who recently deployed around Manbij, in Aleppo province near ...
U.K. military to remove roof from Skripal home for nerve agent decontamination work
British military specialists plan to remove the roof of the house where a former Russian spy and his daughter were exposed to the deadly nerve agent Novichok. The Wiltshire Council has written to neighbors of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in the city of Salisbury warning ...
Nigeria says more 'restraint' is needed in Boko Haram reporting as attacks surge
Nigeria's government on Tuesday called for media "restraint" in reporting Boko Haram, after the military raided a newspaper that published a sensitive story on the insurgency. Soldiers seized computers and mobile phones, and detained two journalists from the Daily Trust at its offices in the ...
Kurdish official asks for Washington's clarifications about planned withdrawal of U.S. troops
Syria's Kurds are awaiting clarifications from the U.S. over America's plans to pull out its troops from Syria following comments made by a top White House aide that appeared to counter earlier comments by President Donald Trump, a Syrian Kurdish official said Monday. Speaking from ...
French jihadi in court over deadly 2014 Brussels Jewish museum attack
A French jihadi appeared in court on Monday as a jury was chosen for his trial for shooting dead four people at a Jewish museum in Brussels in 2014. Mehdi Nemmouche, the first jihadi to return from Syria's battlefields to allegedly launch an attack on ...
South Carolina would-be Islamic State fighter likely to be handed long stretch despite plea deal
A South Carolina man who pleaded guilty to trying to fight for the Islamic State group faces the possibility of decades in federal prison when he's sentenced later this month. Zakaryia Abdin is expected to be sentenced Jan. 24 in federal court in Charleston, according ...
Islamic State suicide bomber kills five in Syria's Kurd-liberated enclave of Raqqa: monitor
An Islamic State group suicide bomber attacked a center for Kurdish forces in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa on Monday, killing four civilians and an anti-jihadist fighter, a monitor said. The attacker blew himself up after entering the center run by the Kurdish People's ...
Japan's government plans to test systems that detect dangerous objects on train passengers
Looking to improve security on public transportation, the government plans to conduct tests at a rail station by the end of March on an electronic system designed to detect dangerous objects on train passengers, a transport ministry official said Monday. The details have not yet ...
