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Pair whose teen graffiti lit Syrian war brace for regime attack on hometown
"Your turn, doctor." Seven years after scribbling the anti-Assad slogan that sparked Syria's war, activists-turned-rebels Moawiya Sayasina and Samer Sayasina are bracing for a regime assault on their hometown, Daraa. They were just 15 when they and friends, inspired by the Arab Spring revolutions they ...
President Ashraf Ghani confirmed Friday that Pakistani Taliban chief Maulana Fazlullah has been killed in a U.S. drone strike. Fazlullah is believed to have ordered the failed 2012 assassination of Malala Yousafzai, who became a global symbol of the fight for girls' rights to schooling, ...
French police have thwarted two terrorist attacks, including one at a swingers' club, sources close to the investigations said Thursday. The prevented plots come weeks after a man with a knife killed a man in Paris and as the country remains on high alert following ...
Al-Qaida's Mali branch releases video of two female hostages held over a year
Al-Qaida's Mali branch released a proof-of-life video Wednesday showing footage of two female hostages abducted in separate incidents and held for more than a year, according to SITE Intelligence Group. The video released on Telegram by the Mali-based al-Qaida affiliate known by its acronym JNIM ...
Paris hostages freed, gunman arrested after four-hour standoff in office
A four-hour hostage standoff in central Paris ended with police moving in, arresting the suspect and freeing those held, France's interior minister announced late Tuesday. "All the hostages are safe and sound," Gerard Collomb said in a brief statement. At least two people had been ...
Chicago-bound United flight from Rome diverted to Ireland after threat 'message' found on board
A United Airlines flight from Rome to Chicago was diverted to Shannon Airport in Ireland on Monday after "a message" was discovered on board, Irish police said. The message referred to a bomb on the plane, a source with knowledge of the investigation told Reuters. The ...
Four U.S. soldiers wounded in deadly Somalia extremist attack treated, now in Kenya
Four U.S. service members who were wounded in an extremist attack in Somalia that killed one special operations soldier have been treated and discharged, the U.S. military said Saturday. A U.S. Africa Command statement said the four were in the care of the U.S. Embassy ...
Israel destroyed a tunnel dug by Hamas leading from Gaza into the Mediterranean Sea intended for use by the Islamic militant group that rules the territory to carry out attacks, the military said Sunday. Military spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said that last week aircraft ...
Philippine troops kill 15 militants in air and ground assault on IED factory
At least 15 pro-Islamic State militants were killed when Philippine troops launched air and ground assaults against a rebel bomb factory on Sunday, a military commander said. Airstrikes and artillery pounded an area in the Liguasan marsh in Maguindanao, where the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters ...
Blasts rip through mosque in Baghdad Shiite district, killing at least seven
Iraqi security officials say a pair of explosions have ripped through a mosque in a mostly Shiite district in Baghdad, killing at least seven worshippers, including two children. They said the blasts on Wednesday night in the Sadr City district also wounded 20 people and ...
Suspected Boko Haram suicide bomb attacks kill at least six in Niger
Three suicide bombers killed at least six people in separate attacks in the southeastern Niger city of Diffa near the border with Nigeria, shattering several months of calm in the troubled region. The attacks occurred late Monday in the city, a regional capital that is ...
London girl, 18, guilty of plot with all-female Islamic State terror cell to attack British Museum
A London teenager was found guilty Monday of preparing an attack on the British Museum as part of the country's first all-female cell linked to the Islamic State group, police and prosecutors said. Safaa Boular, 18, plotted the grenade and gun attack in her home ...
