UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A top U.N. counterterrorism official told the Security Council on Thursday that a vast stretch of Africa could fall under the control of the Islamic State group and affiliated terrorist organizations. There was no known link between an alleged plot to attack Taylor Swift shows in Vienna and the group or its affiliates elsewhere…
The suspect in a deadly knife attack in central Paris on Saturday evening is a French citizen born in 1997 in Russia’s republic of Chechnya, sources say. Named by media as Khamzat Asimov, he was on a French watch list of people who could pose a threat to national security, the sources said. Police shot…
Poverty and a lack of services are preventing rebuilding in Mosul, forcing thousands to choose the lesser of two evils and return to the camps. Over 2 million have yet to go back home. Judit Neurink reports from Mosul. “My children collect scrap iron to sell,” Abbas Mohammed said, picking up the iron pipe that…
Artillery are seen lined up in the village of Suway’iah, near the Syrian border town of Albu Kamal, on November 10, 2017. STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images BEIRUT – Pro-government forces defeated the Islamic State group in its last major stronghold in Syria, state media and a monitoring group reported on Sunday, leaving the militants to defend just strips of desert…