Islamist militants, advancing across parts of northern Iraqi, have seized the city of Tikrit and forced as many as 500,000 people to flee.Iraqi security officials said the Sunni militants, who on Tuesday overran the city of Mosul, pushed southward on Wednesday, taking control of Iraq’s biggest oil refinery and of Tikrit, fallen dictator Saddam […]
In the largest political upset of U.S. House leadership in years, the U.S. House second-in-command Eric Cantor went down in shocking defeat to little known, Tea Party-backed David Brat in the Virginia primary on Tuesday. The Tuesday defeat sent shockwaves through the Republican rank and file who expected Cantor to handily defeat his unknown rival, Brat, […]
ISLAMABAD — The Pakistani Taliban is claiming responsibility for Sunday night’s deadly assault on the country’s largest international airport in Karachi that left at least 28 people dead, including 10 “terrorists” and more than a dozen security personnel. Authorities say that just before midnight a group of around 10 heavily armed militants, some wearing military uniforms, […]
Las Vega police have combed through the Oak Tree apartment of the 20-something-year-old couple who opened fire on two police officers at the Cici’s pizza restaurant on late Sunday morning. It was at approximately 11:20 am on Sunday that a man and a woman entered the pizza place and the woman walked up behind one of the […]