ISLAMABAD—U.S. defense officials say six American soldiers were killed in a suicide bomb attack targeting NATO troops near Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, the biggest U.S. military facility in the war-torn country. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity about what was one of the deadliest attacks on foreign soldiers this year in Afghanistan. Earlier, […]
The U.S. government is issuing a fresh warning that the Islamic State group may have the ability to create increasingly genuine-looking fake Syrian passports, raising fears that extremists could sneak into the West. Islamic State has access to Syrian passport-printing machines, blank passport booklets and authentic biographical data on Syrian citizens, according to a report […]
Pakistan fired a nuclear-capable missile Friday, just two days after hosting a regional peace conference with archrival India. The military said the surface-to-surface ballistic Shaheen III (three) missile has a range of 2,750 kilometers and can carry both nuclear and conventional warheads. The military said the goal of the test was to validate “various design […]
U.S. media reports say Iran has tested a new medium-range ballistic missile in defiance of two United Nations Security Council resolutions. U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told media outlets the test was held November 21, and they say the missile traveled within Iranian territory. Fox News cited intelligence sources as saying the […]