Two Air France flights bound for Paris from the United States were diverted for several hours on Tuesday following anonymous bomb threats, and more than 700 passengers and crew were safely taken off the planes, officials said. Flight 65, an Airbus A-380 that departed from Los...
Gunfire and explosions shook the Paris suburb of St Denis early on Wednesday as French police surrounded a building where a Belgian Islamist militant suspected of masterminding last week's attacks in the French capital was believed to be holed up. Two assailants were killed,...
A Belgian fugitive suspected of taking part in the Paris attacks was stopped three times by French police while being driven back to Brussels the following morning but was allowed to carry on his way, a defense lawyer said on Tuesday. As the manhunt continued for Salah Abdeslam,...
n">U.S. stocks forfeited gains on Tuesday after a soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands was called off over fears of a bombing. All three major U.S. indexes had ventured into positive territory following upbeat earnings reports from Wal-Mart ( WMT.N ) and Home...
German police said they arrested two more people on Tuesday near the western city of Aachen in an operation linked to the attacks last Friday in Paris, after arresting two women and one man earlier in the day. In a statement, the police gave no further details about the latest...
Turkey’s president on Tuesday officially asked Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to form a new government following the Nov. 1 general election. “Mr. President accepted Konya deputy and Chairman of the Justice and Development Party Ahmet Davutoglu at the presidential complex and has tasked him to...
The Russian plane that crashed in Egypt on Oct. 31, killing all 224 passengers and crew, was brought down by a bomb, the Russian security chief said late Monday. According to Alexander Bortnikov, head of Russia’s FSB security service, a bomb downed the plane. The plane...
Yemen's exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi returned to the southern port city of Aden on Tuesday to rally forces loyal to him in the country's civil war and oversee a campaign to retake the city of Taiz, a presidency official said. It was not immediately clear how long Hadi...
Britain says the United Nations Security Council is "going to take action immediately now" to draw up a council resolution for a U.N.-administered cease fire enforcement mechanism in Syria. That follows Saturday's meeting in Vienna at which foreign ministers of nearly 20 countries agreed to...
After the deadliest attack on Europe in over a decade, Britain said on Monday it would hire more spies while France called for better intelligence sharing and tougher controls on the EU's external borders against arms smugglers and Islamist militants. Islamic State warned in...
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday ruled out a shift in strategy in the fight against the Islamic State despite the deadly attacks in Paris last week, saying putting U.S. troops on the ground to combat the group "would be a mistake." Obama, speaking after a G20 leaders'...
(Reuters)- Egyptian security forces shot dead 24 Islamic State militants in central Sinai, 70 km from the crash site of the Russian passenger plane the group claimed it brought down, security sources said on Monday. Security sources said they killed the militants as they hid inside...
Islamic State warned in a new video on Monday that countries taking part in air strikes against Syria would suffer the same fate as France, and threatened to attack in Washington. The video, which appeared on a site used by Islamic State to post its messages, begins with...
(The Daily Beast)— The alleged mastermind of the Paris attack gave an interview to ISIS’s Dabiq magazine earlier this year in which he spoke about being on the radar of intelligence services and escaping capture while planning a “plot” that appears to be Friday’s attack. The three-page...
A French official has identified the suspected mastermind as Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud, and says he is believed linked to thwarted attacks on a Paris-bound high-speed train and Paris area church. The official, who has direct knowledge of the investigation, was not authorized to be publicly...
Israeli troops shot dead at least two Palestinians during a gun battle in the occupied West Bank on Monday, Palestinian medical sources said, amid a weeks-old wave of violence. At least three Palestinians were wounded in the confrontation at the Qalandia refugee camp near the...
(AFP) - World leaders raised the alarm over an "acute and growing flow of foreign terrorist fighters" in a draft statement drawn up Sunday after the Paris assaults that killed at least 129 people. Heads of the Group of 20 top world economies said they would share intelligence, track...
A Syrian passport found by police at the scene of one of the Paris attacks was issued to Ahmad alMohammad, an asylum seeker who had taken the migrants' route through the Balkans, Greece's migration minister said on Sunday. Yiannis Mouzalas, junior interior minister for...
Paris (AFP) - French police on Sunday detained relatives and friends of one of the seven gunmen and suicide bombers who killed at least 129 people in a wave of attacks in Paris claimed by the Islamic State group, as the investigation widened. The first attacker to be named was...
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Sunday that 103 bodies had been identified from Friday's attacks in Paris, with 20 to 30 more still awaiting identification. "They will be (identified) in the coming hours," said Valls outside the Ecole Militaire where a centre has been set up...
