IRBIL, Iraq (McClatchy) — A former French intelligence officer who defected to al Qaida was among the targets of the first wave of U.S. air strikes in Syria last month, according to people familiar with the defector’s movements and...
(Reuters) - Fighting intensified between India and Pakistan in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir on Wednesday, wounding a dozen along a more than 200-km (124-mile) stretch of border.Pakistan’s military fired machine guns and mortars at about 60...
Three people have been killed and at least 36 injured in demonstrations throughout Turkey in support of the presence of the terrorist group Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in the Syrian town of Kobani across the Turkish border, Turkish police have said. Hakan...
(AFP)- A Franciscan priest and 20 other Christians have been seized by the Nusra Front in a village in northwestern Syria, the Franciscan mission to the Holy Land said Tuesday. "On the night of October 5th, Father Hanna Jallouf of the Custody of the Holy Land, parish...
