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Unimaginable horrors from five years of war in Syria
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...
Mother of Michael Brown, killed by police in Ferguson, endorses Clinton on Missouri primary day
The mother of Michael Brown, the teenager whose 2014 shooting by police in Ferguson, Mo., ignited protests that lasted for weeks, is backing Democrat Hillary Clinton. Clinton's campaign announced the endorsement Tuesday as voters began casting primary ballots in Missouri, one of five states voting on what could be a...
US House Votes to Declare IS Genocide against Christians, Yazidis
CAPITOL HILL—The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed, by a 383-to-0 vote, a bipartisan resolution declaring that systemic violence committed by Islamic State (IS) against Christians, Yazidis, Kurds and other ethnic and religious minorities in Iraq and Syria constitutes genocide. The resolution calls on...
Mission accomplished? Russia to withdraw troops from Syria on Tuesday
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...
D.C.-area officer shot, killed; 2 suspects held in ‘unprovoked attack’
Police in suburban Washington, D.C., have taken two suspects into custody after an officer was shot dead outside a district station on Sunday. Officials in Prince George's County, Md., tweeted late Sunday: "One of your defenders lost his life in defense of this community today." Police Chief Henry P. Stawinski III...
Maryland Cop Dies in Shooting at Police Headquarters
The police officer who was critically injured in a shooting this evening at the Prince George’s County Police Department headquarters died after what authorities called an unprovoked attack on the station. Prince George’s County Officer Jacai Colson, 29, was a four-year veteran who was shot during an exchange of...
A look at proposed cease-fire set to begin in Syria
Secretary of State John Kerry told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday that the agreement has already allowed five or six Syrian communities to receive 114 trucks carrying assistance and that 80,000 people now have supplies for a month that they did not have a week ago. The truce is needed before U.N.-led peace...
Ceasefire brings hope for ending ‘proxy war’ in Syria, no truce with ISIS – Obama
The US is skeptical about the Syrian ceasefire, but will do everything it can to make it work, President Barack Obama said after meeting with top security officials. The truce will not apply to Islamic State or Al-Nusra, the president added. Speaking to reporters at the State Department following a meeting of the National...
Disarmed: NY teen robber loses limb after victim rams him with car in revenge (VIDEO)
Shocking CCTV footage shows the moment a teenage mugger was literally disarmed after he tried stealing a pair of sneakers by threatening a man with a gun, only for his victim to then run the teen over with his car. Zachary Sam had arranged to buy a pair of $190-sneakers from Philippe Pierre via Craigslist, with the two meeting...
Dozens of guns, 20,000+ ammo seized from 2 Britons in Greece near Turkey border
Greece’s coast guard has reportedly arrested two “heavily armed” British men carrying more than a dozen guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition from Turkey, a top security official said. A high-ranking security official told AP that the suspects were both Iraqi-born British subjects in their 20s. The...
800 Greek farmers storm Agriculture Ministry in Athens, police deploy tear gas (VIDEO)
Police in Athens have used tear gas to disperse a rally of farmers protesting against pension austerity measures as they were pelting the Agriculture Ministry with stones. A larger protest demonstration is due to start later Friday. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s formerly left-wing government plans to raise pension...
Israel reveals robotic anti-submarine, mine-hunting warship (VIDEO)
An Israeli defense company has unveiled a prototype of the ‘Seagull’ robot warship for anti-mine and anti-submarine operations. The ship is a 12-meter long USV (Unmanned Surface Vessel) with replaceable mission modules. Two Seagull vessels can be operated using a single control system, from the shore or from manned...