WASHINGTON—North Korea is threatening to take “physical action” after the U.S. and Seoul announced plans for deployment of a sophisticated missile defense system in South Korea. Pyongyang made the threat Monday, several days after Washington and Seoul revealed plans to use the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system – THAAD – on the Korean peninsula […]
Egypt carried out a second round of airstrikes in eastern Libya Monday, in swift retaliation for the massacre of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians by Islamic State militants in Libya. The bombings killed dozens of militants and several civilians in the Islamic State stronghold of Darna, according to Libyan military officials, 1,300 kilometers east of where […]
