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Two Jordanian men were killed and an Israeli man was seriously wounded by gunfire at the Israeli embassy in Amman. Two Jordanians have been killed and an Israeli wounded by gunfire in a residential building in the heavily fortified Israeli embassy compound in Jordan’s capital Amman, the kingdom’s Public Security Directorate said. The shooting took […]

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – The United States said on Friday it took part in a July 30 raid that Somalia’s government has already said killed a senior member of an al Shabaab network, which Mogadishu blames for several Islamist bombings. The Somali information ministry said on Monday the attack near the southern town of Torotoroow targeted […]

Fully-veiled Muslim women in Hesse. Photo: DPA. The case of a Muslim pupil refusing to remove her niqab triggered debate in Lower Saxony. Now a new law may mean that full-face Islamic veils will no longer be allowed in state schools. The state of Lower Saxony is expected to announce a ban on face veils […]

As if the news out of North Korea wasn’t bad enough, things might get a lot worse within the next 18 months. We should not be surprised if the Communist dictatorship develops a hydrogen bomb – the ultimate atomic weapon – with the potential to kill millions of people. A Defense Department official I spoke […]

© Mladen Antonov / AFP The Kremlin agrees with Donald Trump’s assessment of the poor state of relations between the US and Russia, its spokesman said. Earlier, Trump accused the US Congress of dragging the relationship with Russia to “an all-time and very dangerous low.” “We fully agree with this opinion,” Dmitry Peskov told reporters on […]

The men attempted to place a bomb on an Etihad flight out of Sydney last month in a plot directed by ISIL, say police. After the bid failed, the men changed tactics and were in the early stages of devising a chemical dispersion device, said police [File: David Gray/Reuters] Two men facing terrorism charges in Australia were […]

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit China in September for a summit of BRICS leaders [File AP] Beijing demands New Delhi must ‘immediately withdraw troops’ from disputed border amid Donglang stand-off. China says India has been building up troops along its side of the border and demands an “immediate withdrawal” amid an increasingly tense […]

© David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters The US military is shifting towards a “more global” exercise program in preparation to deter what they term a “more assertive Russia” as well as countering other complex threats, a senior officer commanding the US forces in Europe has said. TrendsRussia-NATO relations “What we’re eventually going toward is a globally […]

© Kim Won-Jin, AFP | North Korean state TV shows footage of the intercontinental ballistic missile launched on The French airline has said it is expanding its “non-flyover area around North Korea” while denying that passengers were at risk last week when one of its jets flew past the location where a North Korean missile […]

  Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi (Photo by IRNA) Iran has condemned fresh sanctions imposed by the US on the Islamic Republic, stressing that Tehran will not stand silent in the face of Washington’s violation of the 2015 multilateral nuclear agreement. On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump signed into law the bill that targets Iran with […]