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,...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
French police have identified the first of seven gunmen who killed at least 129 people in a wave of carnage claimed by ISIS, as international investigators stepped up their probes into Paris's worst ever attacks. French authorities Saturday named the first attacker as 29-year-old Omar Ismail...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged world leaders on Saturday to prioritize the fight against terrorism as they gathered for a summit in southwestern Turkey, saying the Paris attacks claimed by Islamic State showed the time for words was now over. The worst bloodshed in...
(Reuters)- One of the gunmen who died after attacking a Paris concert hall on Friday had French nationality and was known to have ties with Islamist militants, a source close to the inquiry into a series of deadly attacks in Paris said on Saturday. The same source said that the gunman's body...
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for attacks in Paris that killed over 127 people. The claim was made in a statement in Arabic and French released online Saturday and circulated by supporters of the group. It was not immediately possible to confirm the...
Syrian President Bashar Assad condemned Friday's attacks in Paris and said that such acts of terror were similar to what his people had faced in years of violent civil war. "What France suffered from savage terror is what the Syrian people have been enduring for over five years," the...
Paris attacks death toll has risen to 127, police sources told AFP. At least 127 people were killed and and around 180 injured, 80 critical, in a series of terror attacks in Paris on Friday according to a provisional total, police sources said. Eight of the...
The death toll has risen to 140 in a series of attacks in Paris. About 100 people were killed in the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris and 40 others have died in other locations in and around Paris in a militant attack, an official at Paris City hall said. Gunmen and bombers attacked...
PARIS (AP) — The latest on shootings and explosions in Paris. (all times local): The officials were not authorized to be named because operations were ongoing. ___ 12:20 a.m. A French police official says at least 100 people have been killed inside a Paris concert hall where attackers...
The party of democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi has won a majority in Myanmar's parliament, the election commission said on Friday, giving it enough seats to elect the new president. The victory of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy will allow her to sweep out an old guard...
A leaks scandal rocking the papacy widened on Wednesday as the Vatican put two Italian journalists under investigation and said it suspected other Holy See officials had helped two arrested for stealing documents. The latest twist in the scandal came in a statement about the two...
Myanmar's ruling party conceded defeat on Monday in a general election as the opposition led by democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi appeared on course for a landslide victory that could ensure it forms the next government. "We lost," Union Solidarity and Development Party...
