VOA News Last updated on: November 18, 2015 2:23 PM The Paris prosecutor said Wednesday it remains unclear whether the suspected «mastermind» of last week’s terrorist attacks was killed at the suburban Paris apartment building police raided in the pre-dawn hours in the belief he was holed up there. Police stormed the apartment building in […]readmore
Ken Bredemeier Last updated on: November 18, 2015 12:18 PM The Islamic State group has released a photo of what it claims is the bomb that took down a Russian jetliner over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula last month and says it targeted the plane because of Moscow’s aerial bombardment in Syria. The photo, appearing on the […]readmore
Jeff Swicord November 17, 2015 SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA—Editor’s note: VOA’s Jeff Swicord visited Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo to examine radical extremism in the Balkans. This is the second of three parts.In September 1993, a battalion of foreign Islamic fighters overran a village near the Croat-held town of Vitez in central Bosnia-Herzegovina. They rounded up the […]readmore
By RFI At least 33 militants of the Islamic State Armed Group were killed by the French and Russian air strikes in Northern Syria. According to Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, dozens of militants were also wounded in the raids on weapons depots, barracks and checkpoints in Raqa, which […]readmore
Daniel Schearf November 17, 2015 PARIS—Twenty-three-year-old American student Nohemi Gonzalez was one of dozens killed when Islamic State terrorists opened fire on crowded cafes and bistros in a trendy Paris neighborhood.More than 30 people took shelter in the Green Berets bar, where owner Meng, a former serviceman, said they hid from attackers until 4 a.m. […]readmore
VOA News Last updated on: November 13, 2015 9:35 AM Iraqi Kurdish President Massoud Barzani declared Friday that Kurdish fighters have seized Sinjar from the Islamic State militants who had controlled it for more than a year. «I am here to announce the liberation of Sinjar,» Barzani told a news conference as Kurdish forces raised […]readmore
MOSCOW—British Prime Minister David Cameron says he believes it is «more likely than not» that a bomb brought down a Russian passenger jet over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula last week, killing all 224 people on board. Speaking before talks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi is in London Thursday, Cameron also noted that experts are not […]readmore
Isabela Cocoli October 29, 2015 Germany’s foreign minister said Thursday that the European Union needs a common border protection policy and to be ready to share the migrant and refugee burden fairly. During his visit to Greece, where he met with Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos in Athens, Frank-Walter Steinmeier said shifting the blame to each […]readmore
Associated Press October 29, 2015 DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES—Apple opened its first retail stores in the Arab world on Thursday in the luxury malls of the United Arab Emirates, hoping to sell wealthy consumers on their new high-end smartwatches.Apple’s two new stores, at Dubai’s Mall of the Emirates and Abu Dhabi’s Yas Mall, find themselves alongside […]readmore
Pamela Dockins Last updated on: October 29, 2015 VIENNA—U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting separately with his Iranian and Russian counterparts in Vienna, before international talks on Syria the top U.S. diplomat has called «the most promising» opportunity in years to end the country’s bloody conflict.In addition to one-on-one talks with Iran’s Mohammad […]readmore