Attackers raided Iran’s parliament and opened fire at the Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini a few kilometers south of the capital Wednesday morning, in near simultaneous assaults that killed up to seven people, media reported. Tasmin news agency said there were unconfirmed reports that the...

 British police Wednesday said a 30-year-old man had been arrested following the London Bridge terror attack which killed seven people and injured 48. Officers arrested him in the eastern London suburb of Ilford, near Barking, where two of the assailants lived. The Saturday attack...

The attack on a French police officer outside Paris's famed Notre Dame cathedral by a hammer-wielding man was an "isolated act," government spokesman Christophe Castaner said Wednesday. Tuesday's attacker had "never showed any sign of radicalization," he told RTL radio, but stressed that the...

( The New York Times )- The United States recently committed itself to arming the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, known as the Y.P.G., to help evict the Islamic State from its Syrian stronghold, Raqqa. This decision is likely to prove deeply troublesome, risking the regional stability...