President Barack Obama says destroying Islamic State is his “top priority,” a day after the extremist group claimed responsibility for a terrorist attack that killed 31 people in Belgium. Speaking in Argentina, Obama also vowed to do “whatever is necessary to support our friend and ally Belgium in bringing to justice those who are responsible” […]
PENTAGON / WASHINGTON—U.S. officials have renewed calls to defeat Islamic State and are taking immediate protective steps against new terrorist attacks, after Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for three deadly explosions in Brussels. U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said the U.S. and its allies will “do everything we can to protect our homelands” from […]
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 […]
A Saudi newspaper reported Sunday that authorities there have arrested nine American citizens and 24 people as terror suspects during the past week. The arrests also included 14 Saudis, three Yemenis, two Syrians, an Indonesian, a Filipino, an Emirati, a Kazakhstan national and a Palestinian, the Saudi Gazette said. A U.S. State Department official, when […]