PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA—The head of an infamous Khmer Rouge security center and execution site says he was ordered to destroy the prison and kill all remaining internees on the eve of the Vietnamese military’s arrival in Phnom Penh in January 1979. Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, said Wednesday in his second day of […]
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN—The U.S. drone attack that killed the Afghan Taliban’s leader last month in Pakistan damaged “mutual trust” between Islamabad and Washington, intensified hostilities in Afghanistan and seriously set back peace efforts for that war-ravaged country, a Pakistani authority said on the eve of new talks. As senior U.S. officials and their Pakistani counterparts prepare […]
France’s Bureau of Investigations and Analysis, the agency responsible for that country’s air accident investigations, has confirmed that they have detected a signal coming from one of the black boxes from the ill-fated May 19th EgyptAir flight that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on its scheduled flight from Paris to Cairo. BEA Director Remy Jouty […]
GAZIANTEP, TURKEY—U.S.-led coalition warplanes carried out intense airstrikes Tuesday on Raqqa, the de facto Syrian capital of the Islamic State group, a monitoring group said, continuing days of air-raids that appear to be aimed at demoralizing jihadist fighters before an offensive by Kurdish-led forces on villages to the north of the city. The airstrikes appear […]