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Syria's Kurds to try IS fighters after their home countries refused to repatriate them
QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — The Kurdish-led authority in northeast Syria announced Saturday that hundreds of fighters with the Islamic State group held in prisons around the region will be put on trial after their home countries refused to repatriate them. The statement by the...
Police in Somalia say nine killed in extremist attack on beachside hotel in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Police in Somalia say nine people, including three soldiers, were killed in Friday night’s extremist attack on a beachside hotel in the capital, Mogadishu. The police statement said 10 other people were wounded while 84 people were rescued from the...
UN peacekeeper killed, 8 seriously injured in northern Mali attack
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Attackers killed one U.N. peacekeeper and seriously injured eight others Friday in Mali’s northern Timbuktu region, an area where extremists continue to operate, the United Nations said. The peacekeepers, all from Burkina Faso, were part of a security patrol...
Extremists attack beachside hotel in Somalia's capital as al-Shabab claims responsibility
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Witnesses and state media in Somalia say extremists have attacked a beachside hotel in the capital, Mogadishu, and security forces are responding at the site as some people remain trapped inside. The Somali National News Agency reports that “many...
Official says two migrants drowned trying to reach Spain in two boats, 132 arrive safely
MADRID (AP) — The bodies of two migrants were found on a beach in southeastern Spain after 132 other people arrived in two boats Friday, a government official said. The two died while trying to swim to the coast, José María Martín, a central government official in the city of...
US vice president announces more than $100M to help Caribbean during official visit to Bahamas
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris announced Thursday that the U.S. is investing more than $100 million in the Caribbean region to crack down on weapons trafficking, help alleviate Haiti’s humanitarian crisis and support climate change initiatives. The...
Teen accused of providing gift cards to help support terrorist group
BOSTON (AP) — An 18-year-old Massachusetts man sent gift cards worth a total of $1,670 to someone he thought was a supporter of the Islamic State group that he intended to be used to fund a war on nonbelievers, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Mateo Ventura, of Wakefield, was...
Suicide bomb hits memorial service for Taliban official in northeast Afghanistan, killing 13 people
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A suicide bomber targeted a memorial service in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province on Thursday, killing at least 13 people, officials said. A former Taliban police official was among those killed and at least 30 people were wounded in the explosion...
UN investigators compiling evidence on chemical weapons use by Islamic State extremists in Iraq
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. investigators are compiling evidence on the development and use of chemical weapons by Islamic State extremists in Iraq after they seized about a third of the country in 2014, and are advancing work on the militant group’s gender-based violence and crimes against...
New Jersey Oath Keeper who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 pleads guilty to felony charge
A member of the Oath Keepers extremist group from New Jersey who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and bragged about it in text messages pleaded guilty on Tuesday to obstructing Congress. James Breheny, who is also known as Seamus Evers, of Little Ferry, pleaded guilty in...
