The order appears to be a response to the coordinated attacks in Paris last November. By Ryan Biek | March 21, 2016 According to a new report, London police have been ordered to prepare for the possibility of as many as 10 terror attacks happening simultaneously. An anonymous government official told the Sunday Times,...
Belgium — Brussels: It's a quaint but bustling city, famed for its picture postcard squares, its chocolate and its beer. But it is rapidly becoming infamous, too, as a fertile recruiting ground for jihadi fighters. According to police, the carnage of the Paris attacks was plotted here, and it was in these streets that...
THE Islamic State (ISIS) ‘Secret Service’ handpicked the Paris attackers and they have now set their sights on Britain. The tight-knit unit, who mask their identity from even fellow militants, includes senior British ISIS fighters who are keen to bring the war to Europe. Claude Moniquet, chief executive of the...
A NUCLEAR war in Europe is highly likely to happen soon as relations with Russia become even more strained, a former Russian foreign minister has threatened. Igor Ivanov, foreign minister from 1998 to 2004 under Boris Yeltsin and current President Vladimir Putin, said the risk of a nuclear war in Europe is higher than at any...
It began as a protest over the ill-treatment of boys beaten for graffiti, in an atmosphere of change and hope as the Arab Spring spread through the region. Now, five years in, the Syrian civil war has drawn much of that region into its spiral of despair, and fallen to depths of savagery nobody imagined would be possible. The...
A U.S. servicemember was killed at a northern Iraqi base after it came under rocket attack, a U.S. military official told USA TODAY on Saturday. Two rockets hit the base, but one didn't cause any casualties or damage, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak...
It has often been said throughout time that a picture is worth a thousand words. Any picture may be worth a thousand words, but only a few rare photos tell more than a thousand words. They tell a powerful story, a story poignant enough to change the world and galvanize each of us. Over and over again…...
Six men accused of leaking sensitive information about the Islamic State group to the Iraqi government were executed on video, the Daily Mail in the U.K. reported Thursday. The grisly killings reportedly were carried out in the extremist group’s besieged stronghold of Fallujah in Anbar province, where the Iraqi military...
VLADIMIR Putin is poised to abandon his long-standing relationship with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Western diplomats believe. Negotiators locked in peace talks believe the Russian president's shock decision to withdraw troops from war-ravaged Syria suggests he could be prepared to force Assad to step down....
A group of Twitter accounts seems to be designed to pump out crude Iranian propaganda aimed at an English-speaking audience — but the people behind it and their true motivations are a mystery. Dozens of accounts tweet to thousands of followers in waves every few minutes throughout the day using the hashtag "Powerful...
Russia's bombing blitz in Syria will end today, leaving behind both significant destruction and a Syrian regime to largely fend for itself. The surprise announcement by Russia on Monday came as suddenly as the airstrike campaign started last September. "The task that was assigned to the Ministry of Defense and the...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the military to withdraw the "main part" of their forces in Syria, saying they had largely achieved their goals. He told a meeting at the Kremlin that the pullout would start on Tuesday. The comments come amid fresh peace talks in Geneva aimed at resolving the Syrian...