CAPITOL HILL—U.S. lawmakers are reacting to the first U.S. airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Syria, with a number of congressional leaders praising the action taken by President Barack Obama. But some members of Congress say the nature of the U.S. mission is shifting, and that Congress needs to debate and vote on authorization of […]
CAIRO—Arab world reaction to the U.S.-led airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria, carried out Tuesday with participation or support from Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, has been mostly positive with some nuances. People in a number of countries, however, decried the attacks online. One man, calling himself Nizar, wrote […]
Pennsylvania State Police are confident that they are close on the trail of the man suspected of killing a state trooper and wounding another outside a trooper barracks in Blooming Grove, Pennsylvania. The search for 6-foot-one, 165 pound Eric Frein has entered the tenth day. On Sunday, searchers in the man-hunt found an AK-47 and […]
WASHINGTON – Russia’s continuing aggression in Ukraine, vulnerabilities posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and other threats along NATO’s southern borders, and the alliance’s continuing commitments in Afghanistan were the chief topics in meetings with NATO’s chiefs of defense in Vilnius, Lithuania, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said […]