Tag: Terrorism
Iran cleric who founded Hezbollah, survived book bomb, dies
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour, a Shiite cleric who as Iran's ambassador to Syria helped found the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah...
UN: Unprecedented Taliban violence in 2020 carries into 2021
UNITED NATIONS — Taliban insurgents show no sign of reducing the level of violence in Afghanistan to facilitate peace negotiations with the government, and...
Lost limbs, rising anger as town is caught up in Tigray war
HAWZEN, Ethiopia — Shops remained shuttered, some government workers hadn’t been paid and the town’s main hospital was utterly laid to waste. But the...
Charges after US Capitol insurrection roil far-right groups
Indictments. Infighting. Incarceration.
Former President Donald Trump’s lies about a...
Turkish agents capture nephew of US-based cleric overseas
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish agents have captured a nephew of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen in an overseas operation and have brought him to...
At 26, Belarus journalist has spent a decade in opposition
KYIV, Ukraine — Raman Pratasevich has been part of the Belarus political opposition for over a decade and has long feared the authorities would...
Jury: Official failures played part in fatal London attack
LONDON — A string of failures by British authorities played a part in allowing an ex-convict who served time for terrorism offenses to kill...
3 jailed over 2017 Barcelona attacks by Islamist extremists
MADRID — A Spanish court on Thursday imposed prison sentences ranging from 8 to 53 years on the three surviving members of an extremist...
Defense chief: US pullout from Afghanistan “slightly” ahead
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Congress on Thursday that America's troop withdrawal from Afghanistan is “slightly” ahead of schedule, but he provided...
Tensions rise in Baghdad after arrest of militia commander
BAGHDAD — Tensions mounted in Iraq's capital on Wednesday after the arrest of a militia commander on terrorism charges, prompting a dangerous showdown by...