VOA News – Carla Babb PENTAGON—Syrian state media report dozens of families have been fleeing the besieged city Aleppo after government forces opened a humanitarian corridor. The city had been sealed off for weeks as Syrian forces bombarded the city. U.N. officials and aid groups have demanded the Syrian government open routes to the city […]readmore
VOA News Last updated on: July 27, 2016 4:31 PM The jihadist group Islamic State has released a video showing the two men accused of killing a Catholic priest at a church in northwestern France holding an IS banner and pledging allegiance to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The video was posted by a news […]readmore
VOA News German authorities said that a patient shot dead a doctor and killed himself at a university hospital in a southwestern neighborhood of Berlin Tuesday. Police had initially said that the doctor had received life-threatening injuries and was in intensive care. The shots were fired Tuesday around 1 PM local time at Benjamin-Franklin Hospital […]readmore
A suicide bombing in Istanbul’s historic Sultanahmet district Tuesday left at least 10 people dead and 15 wounded, two in critical condition. Speaking to reporters in Ankara after an emergency security meeting, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said that the suspected suicide bomber had been identified as a Syrian national born in 1988, and […]readmore
VOA News Last updated on: January 08, 2016 A gunman claiming to have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terror group ambushed a police officer Thursday as he sat in his marked car in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, firing multiple times at the officer. According to authorities, the officer, who was struck three times in the left […]readmore
SLAMABAD—A suspected US drone strike Friday killed at least 17 Islamic State militants in eastern Afghanistan shortly after the extremist group beheaded seven people in the same area, said officials and residents. The violence occurred in the remote Achin district of Nangarhar province, which borders Pakistan. The volatile district is where IS is believed to […]readmore
VOA News Last updated on: December 28, 2015 Military officials in Iraq say they have raised the national flag over the main government compound in Ramadi, seven months after Islamic State militants captured the capital of Anbar province. Iraqi military leaders, however, conflict in their assessments of success in the western city. Brigadier General Yahya […]readmore
VOA News Democrats and Republicans have yet to choose their official candidates for next year’s presidential election, but that has not stopped front-runners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump from attacking each other. Monday began with Trump calling Clinton a liar and demanding she apologize for her claim during Saturday’s Democratic debate that Islamic State militants […]readmore
British Prime Minister David Cameron has refused to confirm the identity of «Jihadi John,» the Islamic State militant who has been identified in news reports as a computer programmer from West London. Cameron said he could not comment on any specific cases, but insisted Britain is doing all it can to deal with security threats, […]readmore
Islamic State militants claim a Jordanian airstrike has killed an American aid worker the insurgent group has been holding, the SITE intelligence group reported Friday. The White House said it could not confirm the claim. «We are obviously deeply concerned by these reports,» said Bernadette Meehan, spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council, in […]readmore
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