German Police Raid Homes In Terror Investigation
Some 200 police officers raided 13 homes in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany Tuesday, in connection with the arrests last week of two suspected members of an Islamic terror cell….
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President Obama Is Having Lunch With News Anchors Before State Of The Union
NEW YORK — President Barack Obama will have lunch Tuesday with several broadcast and cable news anchors in anticipation of the evening’s State of the Union address. – The traditional…
Canadian Soldiers Exchange Fire With ISIS In Iraq
Canadian soldiers opened fire on Islamic State group extremists in Iraq over the last week in what a general called an act of self-defense. – He says that while Canadian…
Suicide blast at Nigerian bus station kills 4, injures dozens
The attack happened in the town of Potiskum, police and hospital sources said. – Potiskum, the commercial capital of Yobe state, has been repeatedly rocked by deadly Boko Haram bomb…
Cameron, Obama to announce cyber security effort
Cameron is at the White House for bilateral talks expected to focus squarely on security after this month’s terror attacks in Paris and growing fears of violent Islamic terror cells…
Ohio man plotted attack on U.S. Capitol, FBI says
Christopher Lee Cornell came to the FBI’s attention several months ago for alarming social media posts in which he talked about violent jihad, according to the criminal complaint. The FBI…
11 dead after suspected ISIS attacks in western Iraq
Anbar is a western province largely controlled by ISIS, or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the Sunni Muslim extremist group that has used brutal tactics such as mass…
ISIS: Everything you need to know about the rise of the militant group
The group began in 2004 as al Qaeda in Iraq, before rebranding as ISIS two years later. It was an ally ofand had similarities withOsama bin Laden’s al Qaeda: both…
Following the tangled and treacherous trail after France terror attack
That picture looks much more complex one week later. The final death toll was 17, plus three suspects killed. The threads that investigators have followed from the newsroom of the…
Illinois mom tells ISIS: ‘Leave our children alone’
Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 19, had invited his family to join him in his plans to travel to join ISIS in the Mideast, authorities said. The Islamic State in Iraq and…
No ‘clash of civilizations’ in Paris attacks
Tensions are running high following the massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on Wednesday, and that is exactly how it should be. The correct, human response to…
When their hell becomes ours
“Pieces of flesh were plastered on the wall. There were children and women crying for help,” said one civil society activist who spoke with Reuters just after the suicide attack….
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud Fast Facts
Birth place: Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Father: King Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman al Saud Mother: Fahda bint Al-Asi Al-Shuraim Marriages: Wives’ names not available publicly, but according to Islamic tradition…