Michael Moore calls snipers ‘cowards’ on Twitter
My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse But if you're on…
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Tehran Says Iranian General Killed In Israeli Airstrike In Syria
Hezbollah prepared on Monday to bury its fighters killed the day before in what it said was an Israeli airstrike in Syria as Tehran announced that an Iranian general also…
Fitness Model George Plitt Jr. Struck And Killed By Train In California
A 37-year-old model featured on the cover of numerous fitness magazines was struck and killed by a train while filming on the tracks in Southern California, authorities said. – Plitt…
Fitness Model Greg Plitt Struck And Killed By Train In California
A 37-year-old model featured on the cover of numerous fitness magazines was struck and killed by a train while filming on the tracks in Southern California, authorities said. – Plitt…
Suspects detained in Paris over attacks
The arrests were made in the Grigny and Fleury-Merogis neighborhoods, and those arrested were in Amedy Coulibaly’s entourage, the Paris prosecutor’s spokesperson said. Coulibaly was killed last Friday in a…
Italian aid workers held hostage in Syria are freed
Marzullo, 21, and Ramelli, 20, were kidnapped in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo shortly after they arrived in late July to work on humanitarian aid projects, the state-run ANSA…
What will France do about AQAP link?
That exceptional situation was a terrorist rampage that was years in the works, an AQAP leader said in a video, claiming U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was the mastermind. Al-Awlaki was…
ISIS governor of Mosul killed in coalition airstrikes
Hassan Saeed Al-Jabouri, also known as Abu Taluut, was killed 18 miles south of Mosul in the village of Qayyara, according to Maj. Gen. Watheq Al-Hamdani, a senior regional Iraqi…
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…
Arsonists target German newspaper that reprinted Charlie Hebdo cartoons
The arson attack at the Hamburger Morgenpost occurred about 2 a.m. local time, the newspaper said on its website. – The same day, police killed Said and Cherif Kouachi, the…
World leaders to attend massive ‘unity rally’ in France
French officials announced “exceptional measures” to protect not only the throngs expected to gather near the Place de la Republique in central Paris, but also a veritable who’s who of…
Vignettes: More about the 17 killed in French terror attacks
On the third and final day, four hostages were killed when a terrorist seized a Jewish grocery. In all, 17 people were massacred by at least three terror suspects over…
Gunman tried to justify market raid to hostages, recording apparently shows
French radio station RTL says that it called the market after authorities say Coulibaly took customers and workers hostage there. Coulibaly apparently took the call and then tried to hang…
Huge death toll in Boko Haram attacks?
Musa Bukar, chairman of Kukawa local government where Baga is located, claimed that more than 2,000 people were killed in the attacks, but he could not explain how he arrived…
A timeline of the Charlie Hebdo terror attack
Wednesday morning About 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to the French newspaper Le Monde, gunmen dressed in black and wearing bulletproof vests forced their way into a building two doors down…
How the Kouachi brothers turned to terrorism
On Friday, the two brothers were killed in a shootout with police, achieving their goal of a supposedly heroic “martyrdom.” Before they died, one of the brothers spoke on the…
Massive search for woman suspected in Paris hostage-taking
That suspect is Hayat Boumeddiene, a 26-year-old woman who allegedly was the accomplice of Amedy Coulibaly, 32, in the standoff at a kosher grocery store in eastern Paris. Four people…
Jittery nation lives a new crisis
The twin standoffsone outside the French capital involving the suspects who shot and killed 12 people Wednesday at the offices of the satirical magazine, the other at a kosher grocery…
French cartoonists killed in Paris took a profane aim at the world
A moment of silence for the victims, who also included a popular columnist and a copy editor, was observed at noon Paris time. Charlie Hebdo magazine editor Stephane “Charb” Charbonnier…
Report says Iraqi civilian deaths roughly doubled last year, driven by ISIS
At least 17,049 civilians were recorded killed in Iraq during 2014, Iraq Body Count said, roughly double the number recorded in 2013which in turn was about double that of the…