Terrorism
Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 07:33
Iraqis in the western city of Fallujah say members of an al-Qaeda-linked group are handing out pamphlets urging people to take up arms and back them against Iraqi troops besieging the city.
Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 07:27
Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system has intercepted five rockets fired at the city of Ashkelon from the Gaza Strip and the military responded with a series of air strikes on the Hamas-controlled territory.
Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 07:12
The prosecution contends that the four absent defendants are supporters of Hezbollah, whose leaders have dismissed the court in The Hague as evidence of a broader Western conspiracy against their organization and urged Lebanese to withhold cooperation with it.
Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 06:06
Hermel is a mostly Shiite Muslim city whose residents are closely allied with the Hezbollah movement, which has dispatched militiamen to Syria to fight on behalf of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 10:44
Dozens of foreign fighters have defected from the al-Qaida-linked militant group in Somalia due to internal disputes, and many of those men have moved into Kenya, a security official said.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 07:40
“We target the students to create future soldiers and leaders who can defend their cause and appreciate the value of resistance,” said a Qassam member who spoke on the condition that he be identified only as Abu Mahmoud.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 07:38
The coordinated operation against the Humanitarian Relief Foundation, or IHH, prompted the leadership of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to sack the senior police official responsible for conducting the raid.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 07:37
A former U.S. soldier charged with attempting to join a terrorist group was sentenced to seven years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to destroying records that could be used in a terror investigation, federal prosecutors said.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 07:31
But Lebanon has failed to track any of them down in the three years since they were indicted and they will be tried in absentia, defended by court-appointed lawyers.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 07:29
In the deadliest incident, a bomb blew up in a funeral tent where mourners were marking the death two days ago of a Sunni Muslim pro-government militiaman, police said.