A soldier stands in the courtyard of the historic Al Nuri mosque, in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq – Sam Tarling for The Telegraph Its last resident preacher is long-gone, having used its pulpit to declare Islamic State’s jihad to the wider world. Now, six years after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s notorious appearance at Mosul’s […]
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi explosives experts were working to defuse a large mine discovered on an oil tanker in the Persian Gulf and evacuate its crew, authorities said Friday. The statement came a day after two private security firms said sailors feared they had found a limpet mine on the MT Pola, a Liberian-flagged tanker […]
A group of teens attacks an SUV in the middle of New York City. (NYPD via Twitter) A 15-year-old has been arrested in connection with an incident in which a gang of teens on bikes attacked a luxury SUV in the middle of New York City. The boy has not been identified because he is […]
The woman did not provide proof to back up her claims in a phone conversation with CNN The woman who falsely accused the 14-year-old son of jazz musician Keyon Harrold of stealing her iPhone and assaulting him is claiming she is the actual victim. The 22-year-old white woman at the center of the incident at […]
MARIETTA, Ga. — The presidential campaign of 2020 may be decided, but a proxy war between Joe Biden and Donald Trump is still raging in Georgia that will help decide which party will control the U.S. Senate. President-elect Biden plans to return to the Peach State on Monday to campaign for Democrats Jon Ossoff and […]
More than three years after the FBI came under fire for claiming “Black identity extremists” were a domestic terrorism threat, the bureau has issued a new terrorism guide that employs almost identical terminology, according to a copy of the document obtained by Yahoo News. The FBI’s 2020 domestic terrorism reference guide on “Racially or Ethnically […]
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Israeli jets fired missiles on targets near Damascus early Wednesday, killing one Syrian soldier and wounding three others, Syria’s military said. A Syrian military official said the attack took place after midnight in the Zabadani region in the Damascus countryside and that it targeted a Syrian air defense unit and caused […]
US president Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump at Mar-a-Lago (REUTERS) The president was reportedly enraged at the end of this month, not by the more than 334,000 people who’ve died of coronavirus on his watch, but because of first lady Melania Trump’s renovations at his Mar-a-Lago, Florida, club, where he is expected to […]
The presidential election was on Nov. 3; most news organizations pronounced Joe Biden and Kamala Harris the winners a few days later; states certified their results by Dec. 8; and the Electoral College met on Dec. 14. But there’s still a bit of election business to wrap up between now and Jan. 20, when Biden […]
National Review Senate Investigation Finds Obama Admin Knowingly Funded al-Qaeda Affiliate Non-profit humanitarian agency World Vision United States improperly transacted with the Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA) in 2014 with approval from the Obama administration, sending government funds to an organization that had been sanctioned over its ties to terrorism, according to a new report.Senate Finance […]