By DANIEL ESTRIN Israel intensified its crackdown on Jewish extremists Sunday, jailing two high-profile ultranationalist Israelis for six months without charge and arresting additional suspects in West Bank settlement outposts,…
By BABA AHMED Special forces early Saturday rescued four people who hid in a hotel for nearly 24 hours after Islamic extremists stormed the building and launched a shootout that…
By HAMZA HENDAWI and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA While attending the Iraqi army’s artillery school nearly 20 years ago, Ali Omran remembers one major well. An Islamic hard-liner, he once chided Omran…
By ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI and AYA BATRAWY An alleged new affiliate of the Islamic State group in Saudi Arabia has claimed responsibility for an attack that targeted police and special forces…
By DANIEL ESTRIN Israel said Tuesday it was interrogating the suspected head of a Jewish extremist group in the first arrest of an Israeli suspect following last week’s arson attack…
By LUCAS L. JOHNSON and KATHLEEN FOODY A gunman unleashed a barrage of fire at a recruiting center and another U.S. military site a few miles apart in Chattanooga on…
By HAMZA HENDAWI, QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and BASSEM MROUE They are the Islamic State group’s elite shock troops. Fanatical and disciplined, they infiltrate cities of Iraq and Syria, unleash mayhem and…
The latest news on the coordinated militant attacks in Egypt’s restive northern Sinai Peninsula that killed 50 soldiers (all times local): 4:30 p.m. An Associated Press reporter heard two explosions…
