Explosion near one of Islam’s holiest sites in Saudi Arabia
By AYA BATRAWY State-linked Saudi news websites reported an explosion Monday near one of Islam’s holiest sites in the city of Medina, as two suicide bombers struck in different cities…
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Israel’s Netanyahu in Uganda to start 4-nation Africa tour
By RODNEY MUHUMUZA Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country’s raid on Uganda’s Entebbe airport 40 years ago, in which his brother was killed, “changed the course” of his…
Iraq: Death toll from IS-claimed bombing climbs to 157
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN The death toll from the truck bombing at a bustling Baghdad commercial street rose to 157 on Monday, Iraqi authorities said, as Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered…
Palestinian kills Israeli, wounds family in West Bank attack
By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and IAN DEITCH A Palestinian gunman ambushed a family traveling in a car in the West Bank on Friday, killing an Israeli man and wounding his wife…
Turkish official: Attackers were from Russia, Central Asia
By DOMINIQUE SOGUEL and SUZAN FRASER As the death toll from the Istanbul airport attack rose Thursday to 44, a senior Turkish official said the three suicide bombers who carried…
41 dead in Istanbul airport attack; Turkish govt blames IS
By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY, SUZAN FRASER and DOMINIQUE SOGUEL Suicide attackers armed with guns and bombs killed 41 people and wounded hundreds at Istanbul’s busy Ataturk Airport, apparently targeting Turkey’s crucial…
Benghazi report faults security; no new Clinton allegations
By MATTHEW DALY Republicans on the House Benghazi Committee harshly faulted the Obama administration Tuesday for lax security and a slow response to the deadly 2012 attacks at the U.S.…
Senate to vote on gun control, prospects dim for change
By MARY CLARE JALONICK Democrats get their long-sought votes on gun control a week after the massacre in Orlando, Florida, but election-year politics and the powerful National Rifle Association dim…