IRBIL, IRAQ—Islamic State (IS) extremists are training Iraqi and Syrian children as young as eight years old to carry out suicide attacks and fight to kill, Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga commanders tell VOA. “There are training centers, more than two or three, big training centers in Mosul,” said General Sirwan Barzani, the Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga commander […]
ISLAMABAD—The new commander of the U.S.-led NATO forces in Afghanistan has apologized to residents of Kunduz for a U.S. airstrike on a hospital that killed 42 people. U.S. Army General John Nicholson met in Kunduz with representatives of the medical charity Doctors Without Borders and family members of the victims to express his condolences over what […]
PARIS/WASHINGTON—Three explosions rocked Brussels Tuesday morning – two at the airport and one at a metro station in the heart of the Belgian capital, with local media reporting at least 30 people dead and 130 injured. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks in a statement issued via its news agency. “This is a black […]
South Korea is reporting that North Korea fired off several short-range projectiles into the sea off of the east coast of North Korea on Monday. Officials in South Korea did not specify what type of projectiles they were however. Other sources say that the projectiles were short-range missiles and say a total of five were […]