Several events have coincided to demonstrate the dynamic, if not guarded, relationship between Russia and the Nordic and Baltic states. Ten NATO countries and Sweden launched a two-week planned exercise in the North Sea on May 4 to improve their anti-submarine warfare capabilities. On the same day, Finland — not a NATO member — began […]
New evidence uncovered by French investigators in the crash of the Germanwings airliner in the March crash in the French Alps points toward premeditation and and deliberation in the incident. According to the investigators, Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot on the ill-fated flight, practiced controlled gradual descents earlier in the day of the fateful crash. Investigations […]
Investigators continue to comb through Twitter and othe social media as well as the electronic devices of the two men, 31-year-old Elton Simpson and 34-year-old Nadir Soofi, who attacked the Curtis Culwell Center on Sunday in an effort to ascertain what, if any, connections the two men and the Islamic State had. Simpson used his Twitter […]
Announcing on its radio station on Tuesday, the Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the Sunday attack at the Draw Muhammad art event at the Curtis Culwell Center, saying that “Two of the soldiers of the caliphate executed an attack on an art exhibit in Garland, Texas, and this exhibit was portraying negative pictures […]