Moscow (CNN) — A massive explosion at a train station in the Russian city of Volgograd killed at least 16 people, including one police officer, the Investigative Committee of Russia said on its website Sunday.
Read MoreLebanese officials say a car bombing in central Beirut has killed former Finance Minister Mohamad Chatah and at least four others.
Read MoreHONOLULU — President Obama signed a sweeping defense policy law here Thursday that cracks down on sexual assault in the military and eases restrictions on transferring detainees from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the custody of foreign countries.
Read Moreby Anna Borshchevskaya The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)-one of the most trustworthy sources on media translation the Middle East and South Asia—reported on December 26 that Al-Qaeda’s Al-Sahab media arm published an updated version of their propaganda movie La Tukalifu Ila Nafsak (“Commit No One But You”), encouraging individual terror attacks in the…
Read MoreDuring more than 14 hours of interviews, the first he has conducted in person since arriving here in June, Snowden did not part the curtains or step outside. Russia granted him temporary asylum on Aug. 1, but Snowden remains a target of surpassing interest to the intelligence services whose secrets he spilled on an epic…
Read More(Reuters) – The Egyptian government intensified its crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday, formally listing the group as a terrorist organization after accusing it of carrying out a suicide bomb attack on a police station that killed 16 people.
Read MoreThe White House has reportedly withdrawn its initial choice to be the U.S. ambassador to Egypt after objections were raised by representatives of the military regime in Cairo.
Read MoreMembers of Congress remain divided on whether to rein in the National Security Agency’s broad collection of phone records, with one Democrat saying the Founding Fathers would be “astounded” by the snooping program, while an outspoken New Yorker insisted that the program is fine and could have prevented the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
Read MoreBEIRUT—Syrian aircraft pummeled an opposition neighborhood in Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least 32 people in the eighth straight day of intense government bombardment of the rebel-held half of the city.
Read MoreThe U.S. government this week said the head of a human-rights organization working on behalf of Islamist political prisoners was also a financier for al Qaeda. Most of the world knows Abdul Rahman Omeir al-Naimi as a Qatari history professor and human-rights activist. The Swiss-based organization he founded, known as al-Karama from the Arab word…
Read More
