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…
War and unrest
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…
The Latest: Toll from Baghdad bombing climbs to 115
The Latest on an IS-claimed car bomb attack in the Iraqi capital (all times local): 6:30 p.m. Iraqi officials say the death toll from the car bomb attack claimed by…
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…
US: Up to 116 civilians killed in drone, other air attacks
By DEB RIECHMANN The White House said Friday that as many as 116 civilians have been killed by drone and other U.S. strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Africa since President…
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…
At 150, KKK sees opportunities in US political trends
By JAY REEVES Born in the ashes of the smoldering South after the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan died and was reborn before losing the fight against civil rights…