Obtained by ABC News(NEW YORK) — The ISIS terrorist dubbed Jihadi John who oversaw the brutal executions of American and Western hostages was hit by a U.S. air strike Thursday night and is believed to have been killed, U.S. officials told ABC News. One official said Read More
ChiccoDodiFC/iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Seventeen people were arrested on terrorism-related charges in at least three European nations as part of a continent-wide blitz, police say. Police in Italy said that they had issued 17 arrest warrants for Iraqi Kurds. The Read More
Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — On the eve of an international meeting with Arab and European leaders in Vienna, Austria, about Syria’s future, Secretary of State John Kerry equated the need to defeat ISIS with the urgency to defeat Read More
Pontus Edenberg/Hemera/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — President Obama on Thursday signed an executive order lifting economic sanctions against Liberia, praising the African nation’s emergence from civil war and its efforts in combating the West African Ebola Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(BEIRUT) — More than 30 people are dead following twin explosions in Beirut Thursday, the BBC reports. Dozens of others are said to be injured. The blasts hit the Hezbollah stronghold of Borj al-Barajneh, a southern suburb of the Lebanese Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(MOSCOW) — Secret design plans of a huge Russian nuclear torpedo were accidentally broadcast on two Kremlin-controlled television stations during ordinary news bulletins. During a piece reporting a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Thousands of life jackets and tire inner tubes blanket the shoreline in Lesbos, Greece, serving as a reminder of the dangers each refugee who landed there has had to overcome. Boats carrying refugees fleeing war and poverty continue to Read More
Thomas Koehler/Photothek via Getty Images(BERLIN) — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani is going on his first official trip to Europe this weekend, but a formal dinner with French President François Hollande is no longer on his itinerary after the two Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(SINJAR, Iraq) — Kurdish fighters, backed by a U.S. coalition, are making progress in their mission to retake the ISIS-held town of Sinjar. The forces took over a major part of Sinjar road, which serves as a major supply chain for ISIS. The Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — While Indonesia has strict drug laws — convicted smugglers are executed by firing squad, for example — the prison system itself is corrupt, leading officials to ponder a new type of guard: crocodiles. The local news source Read More
