WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is beefing up its use of fighter jets around the strategic Strait of Hormuz to protect ships from Iranian seizures, a senior defense…
Read more US sending F-16 fighter jets to protect ships from Iranian seizures in Gulf regionPARIS (AP) — France has returned 35 people — 10 women and 25 minors — from a sprawling camp in northeast Syria housing thousands of people linked to…
Read more France returns 35 citizens from camp in Syria housing thousands linked to Islamic State extremistsWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed skeptical Wednesday of a lawsuit trying to hold social media companies responsible for a terrorist attack at a Turkish nightclub that…
Read more Supreme Court seems to favor tech giants in terror caseISLAMABAD — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a bombing near a checkpoint at the Afghan capital’s military airport that killed and wounded several people. IS said…
Read more Islamic State claims Afghanistan airport checkpoint bombingA spokesman for the Taliban-led government says a bombing at a military airport checkpoint in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has killed and wounded several people KABUL, Afghanistan —…
Read more Taliban: Kabul checkpoint bomb blast kills, wounds severalRAQQA, Syria — Marwa Ahmad rarely leaves her run-down house in the Syrian city of Raqqa. The single mother of four says people look at her with suspicion…
Read more Former IS families face neighbors’ hatred returning homeKABUL, Afghanistan — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a car bombing that killed a local police chief in Afghanistan. The IS regional affiliate — known…
Read more IS claims Afghan car bombing that killed local police chiefQAMISHLI, Syria — An attack by Islamic State militants in the city of Raqqa on Monday killed six members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, which has played…
Read more Syrian Democratic Forces say 6 fighters killed in IS attackEight people were killed and three injured Monday in an attack by gunmen on an Iraqi village previously held by the Islamic State extremist group, officials said. The…
Read more Official: 8 killed in attack by gunmen on an Iraqi villageToday in History Today is Monday, Dec. 19, the 353rd day of 2022. There are 12 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 19,…
Read more Today in History: December 19, Bill Clinton impeachedUNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council warned Thursday that the threat of terrorism has increased and become more diffuse in various regions of the world aided by…
Read more UN warns terrorist threat has increased and is more diffuseISLAMABAD — The militant Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a coordinated attack on a Chinese-owned hotel in Afghanistan’s capital that left three assailants dead and at…
Read more Islamic State group claims attack on Chinese hotel in KabulBEIRUT — The leader of the Islamic State group, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, was killed in a battle recently, the group’s spokesman said in audio released Wednesday without…
Read more IS says leader Abu al-Hassan al-Qurayshi killed in battleCANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s terrorism threat level has been downgraded from “probable” to “possible” for the first time since 2014, the head of the main domestic spy agency…
Read more Australia reduces national terrorism threat to ‘possible’LONDON — Lawyers for a British woman whose U.K. citizenship was removed after she travelled to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State group argued Monday that she…
Read more Lawyer: Ex-Islamic State bride was child trafficking victimDUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The gunman who killed 15 people at a major Shiite holy site in southern Iran earlier this week died on Saturday, Iranian media…
Read more Gunman who attacked holy shrine in Iran dies from injuriesCANBERRA, Australia — Four women and their 13 children who were held in a Syrian camp since the Islamic State group fell in 2019 have become only the…
Read more 17 Australian women, children return from Syrian campArchaeologists in northern Iraq have unearthed 2,700-year-old rock carvings featuring war scenes and trees, dating back to the Assyrian Empire BAGHDAD — Archaeologists in northern Iraq last week…
Read more 2,700-year-old rock carvings discovered in Iraq’s MosulArchaeologists in northern Iraq have unearthed 2,700-year-old rock carvings featuring war scenes and trees, dating back to the Assyrian Empire BAGHDAD — Archaeologists in northern Iraq last week…
Read more 2,700 year-old rock carvings discovered in Iraq’s MosulNEW YORK — French cement company Lafarge pleaded guilty Tuesday to paying millions of dollars to the Islamic State group in exchange for permission to keep open a…
Read more US: French cement firm admits Islamic State group payments
