Iraqi security forces clean up a site in the aftermath of a bomb explosion near a shopping mall in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 10, 2016. Share Two bomb blasts outside a shopping mall in Baghdad have killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens of […]
Iran has begun building its second nuclear power plant. Russia is helping Iran with the construction of the facility near the southern port city of Bushehr, the site of Iran’s other operational nuclear plant. Construction of the site is expected to take about 10 years […]
Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for president, was chagrined and embarrassed this week after he asked, “What is Aleppo?” in reply to a question on MSNBC. Mr. Johnson made no excuses and said later he simply “blanked” — his word — when asked what he […]
BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on Syria’s civil war (all times local): 11:30 p.m. Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group, which is taking part in Syria’s civil war, says it supports the cease-fire but vows to continue fighting against the Islamic State group and al-Qaida’s affiliate. Hezbollah’s […]
Airstrikes killed and wounded dozens in Syria on Saturday hours after the U.S. and Russia reached an agreement on a cease-fire set to begin Monday The airstrikes on parts of Aleppo and nearby towns killed at least 45 people and wounded dozens more, the Aleppo […]
By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) – Would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley Jr. was released from a psychiatric hospital on Saturday, media reports said, 35 years after he shot U.S. President Ronald Reagan in an attack prompted by a deranged obsession with the actress Jodie […]
NEWS BRIEF French authorities announced Friday the arrest of a 19-year-old woman believed to be planning an attack after pledging allegiance to the Islamic State, Agence France-Presse reports. The woman, identified as Ines Madani, was arrested alongside a 23-year-old woman and a 39-year-old woman Thursday […]
KHARABRUD, Iraq (AP) — An Iranian Kurdish rebel group received military training in weapons and explosives from U.S. and European advisers as part of the international program backing Kurds in the war against the Islamic State group in Iraq, the group’s commander told The Associated […]
The tourist gate and ticket house are ready at the ancient city of Karkemish, where Turkish troops crossed last month into Syria and ousted Islamic State militants from the border. Despite Syria’s civil war, archaeologists on the Turkish side of border-straddling Karkemish unearthed sculptures, mosaics […]
GENEVA — Senior United Nations officials are pinning their hopes for humanitarian access to Aleppo and other hard-to-reach and besieged areas in Syria on a breakthrough in U.S.-Russia bilateral talks. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, are meeting in […]
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