KABUL – At least 40 members of a wedding party, including women and children, were killed and another 13 wounded in an airstrike in southern Afghanistan Sunday night, according to a provincial council member from Helmand province. Haji Abdul Majed Akhund told VOA that the residents of Musa Qala district, the site of the attack, […]
Israel has been conducting military operations against Iran on Syrian soil for more than two years. Many missions have been shrouded in secrecy, but this week the Israelis offered rare confirmation of an airstrike on an Iranian weapons cache located near Damascus’ international airport. And Israel’s outgoing military chief, General Gadi Eisenkot, went into greater […]
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]ARIS — The Islamic State group may be defeated geographically in the Middle East, but radical extremism is spreading to other parts of the world, and a new crop of potential terrorists now in prison will be out in a few years. A week after a deadly terrorist attack in eastern France, a top international law […]
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday announced criminal charges against a North Korean hacker they said was involved in a string of brazen cyber attacks in recent years, including the 2014 invasion on Sony Pictures and a 2016 heist at the central bank of Bangladesh. Prosecutors identified the hacker as Park Jin Hyok, a computer programmer and […]