U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was due to be discharged from a Boston, Massachusetts, hospital Friday, where he has been recovering from a leg injury he sustained during a bicycle accident in France. The State Department said Kerry would return to his home in Boston. There was no word on when he would be […]
Airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition in the Yemeni capital Sunday killed at least 44 people, including civilians, one week before the scheduled start of peace talks between rival political factions. The bombings targeted the headquarters of Yemen’s armed forces in Houthi rebel-held Sana’a. Saudi Arabia launched an air campaign against the Houthi militia in late […]
The Pentagon says the case of live anthrax spores accidentally shipped to commercial and military labs in the U.S. and overseas is much worse than first reported. An initial review says 51 labs in 17 states and Washington, D.C., and in three other countries – Australia, Canada, and South Korea – may have gotten the […]
The Islamic State militant group, which controls parts of Syria and Iraq, has accepted a pledge of allegiance from the Nigeria-based Boko Haram extremist organization. In an audio statement Thursday, an Islamic State spokesman welcomed what he called the expansion of the group’s self-declared Islamic caliphate to West Africa. “The caliph, may God protect him, […]