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What's known about the brazen bombing that killed a top Russian general in Moscow

Dec. 18, 2024 11:17 AM EST

The killing of a senior Russian general in a bombing outside his apartment building in Moscow was the boldest assassination yet of a top military officer and again brought the war in Ukraine to the streets of the capital. Some things to know about the attack and who is suspected of...

Russia says it has detained a suspect in the Moscow bombing that killed a senior general

Dec. 18, 2024 11:08 AM EST

Russia's security service said Wednesday it detained a citizen from Uzbekistan in the bombing that killed a senior general as he left his southeastern Moscow apartment — a bold assassination that was claimed by Ukraine's security service. Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov was killed Tuesday...

US repatriates 3 Guantanamo Bay detainees, including one held 17 years without charge

Dec. 18, 2024 10:44 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has transferred two Malaysian detainees at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. military prison to their home country, after they pleaded guilty to charges related to deadly 2002 bombings in Bali and agreed to testify against the alleged ringleader of that and other attacks, the...

A top Russian general is killed in a Moscow bombing claimed by Ukraine

Dec. 17, 2024 15:48 PM EST

A senior Russian general was killed Tuesday by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow, a day after Ukraine’s security service leveled criminal charges against him. A Ukrainian official said the service carried out the attack. Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the...

Roadside bomb kills 3 police officers escorting polio workers in northwest Pakistan

Dec. 17, 2024 15:19 PM EST

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful roadside bomb exploded near a vehicle carrying police officers assigned to protect polio workers in restive northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing three officers and wounding two others, police said. The attack occurred in Dera Ismail Khan...

The killing of a Russian general is one of several that Moscow blames on Ukraine

Dec. 17, 2024 12:24 PM EST

Ukraine’s Security Service, or SBU, has claimed responsibility for killing Lt. General Igor Kirillov, head of the military’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces, in a bombing Tuesday in Moscow. Kirillov, 54, was killed alongside his assistant, Ilya Polikarpov, when...

Pope in autobiography reveals an apparent bombing plot during his 2021 visit to Iraq

Dec. 17, 2024 04:54 AM EST

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis turned 88 on Tuesday and marked the occasion with revelations that he almost didn’t make it. According to excerpts of his upcoming autobiography, suicide bombers had planned to attack him during his 2021 visit to Iraq, but were killed before striking. ...

Palestinian refugees return to Yarmouk amid questions about their place in the new Syria

Dec. 14, 2024 18:30 PM EST

DAMASCUS (AP) — The Yarmouk refugee camp outside Damascus was considered the capital of the Palestinian diaspora before the war in Syria reduced it to row after row of blasted out buildings where there were once falafel stands, pharmacies and mosques. Taken over by a series of...

Thai police detain 2 suspects after a bomb in a border province killed 3 and injured scores

Dec. 14, 2024 00:48 AM EST

BANGKOK (AP) — Thai police on Saturday said two suspects were in custody as authorities investigated a bombing in the north that killed at least three people and injured dozens of others. An explosive device was thrown into a crowd during an outdoor performance at an annual...

Thousands attend the funeral of a Taliban minister killed by an Islamic State suicide bomber

Dec. 12, 2024 11:04 AM EST

GARDA SERAI, Afghanistan (AP) — Thousands of people attended the funeral on Thursday of a Taliban minister killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, the day before that was claimed by the Islamic State group. The funeral for Khalil Haqqani, the minister for...