CAPITOL HILL—The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to suspend President Barack Obama’s plan to resettle 10,000 Iraqi and Syrian refugees in the United States in the next year, but he is promising to veto the measure if it passes the Senate. Obama signaled that he anticipates his resettlement plan will go forward. “My […]
PARIS—France confirmed the suspected ringleader of last week’s Paris attacks was killed in a police raid Wednesday, and officials said he has been implicated in four of six foiled attacks in the country this year. The Paris prosecutor’s office said the bullet-riddled body of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian national of Moroccan descent, was found inside […]
The Islamic State group has released a photo of what it claims is the bomb that took down a Russian jetliner over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula last month and says it targeted the plane because of Moscow’s aerial bombardment in Syria. The photo, appearing on the extremist group’s official online English-language magazine Dabiq, shows a yellow […]
Twenty three governors have reacted to the recent attacks in Paris, and have now taken action to stop Syrian refugees from entering their states. Governors from the states of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin have […]