Australian teen among group ISIS suicide bombing in Iraq
Australia’s government was trying to confirm reports that an Australian teenager was among a group of suicide bombers from the Islamic State movement that struck Iraq’s embattled Anbar province. The Islamic State group claimed in an online statement that it used foreign fighters from Australia,... read more »
Broke no rules, mailed no classified info to anyone: Clinton
New York: Breaking her silence over the email uproar, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said she chose one account for both her personal and official communication out of “convenience” but acknowledged it would have been better if she had used government email for... read more »
95 prisoners escape Islamic State-run jail in Syria
BEIRUT – Around 95 captives have escaped an Islamic State-run prison in northern Syria, a group monitoring the war said on Tuesday, saying the escapees included about 30 Kurdish fighters. The jailbreak happened in the town of al-Bab, 30 km (20 miles) south of the Turkish frontier, the... read more »
Suicide car bomber kills 1 in Egypt’s Sinai
A suicide car bomber targeted a police compound in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula early on Tuesday, killing one civilian and wounding 24 police conscript, security officials said. Egypt has for years been battling a burgeoning insurgency in northern Sinai but the frequency of attacks against... read more »
