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Daniela Greene, a translator working for the U.S. domestic security agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), married a Daesh terrorist in 2014 that she had been assigned to investigate in Syria, CNN said in an article published late Monday. The FBI employee, who had top-secret security clearance, lied to the FBI about where she […]

Workers and activists marked May Day on Monday with defiant rallies and marches for better pay and working conditions. Some countries celebrate International Workers’ Day with a public holiday, though others restrict activities, which can lead to confrontations. Some of the events around the world: Workers and activists marked May Day in Turkey with defiant […]

(Reuters) A U.S. service member who died when an improvised explosive device detonated while he was on patrol outside the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was identified on Sunday as 1st Lieutenant Weston Lee. Lee, 25, of Bluffton, Georgia, was an infantry officer assigned to 1st Battalion, 325th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd […]

After a relative hiatus over the past five years, international supply chains are once again threatened by a resurgence of piracy off the coast of Somalia. At the height of the Somali pirate crisis in 2011, 151 vessels were attacked in one of the world’s busiest shipping routes. Thousands of hostages were taken and billions […]

PYONGYANG, April 30 — The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) said on Sunday that the U.S.-South Korea joint exercises and U.S. buildup of nuclear assets on the Korean Peninsula are the root cause of high tension here. Explaining the situation on the Korean Peninsula to Russian ambassador Alexander Matsegora, DPRK Vice Minister of Foreign […]

 North Korea threatened to sink a US nuclear sub currently deployed in South Korean waters if the US take provocative action, responding to a statement from Donald Trump that the president won’t be “happy” if Pyongyang conducts another nuclear test. After the US deployed a nuclear-powered submarine and an aircraft carrier to South Korean waters […]

The UK, which recently said it could launch a preemptive nuclear strike “in the most extreme circumstances,” runs the risk of being “wiped off the face of the Earth,” the deputy head of a Russian upper house committee said. “The statement made by UK’s Defense Minister Michael Fallon calls for a harsh response and I’m […]

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi government forces are opening new front in their battles against Islamic State militants in western Mosul, targeting the recapture of four last districts, according to an Iraqi army officer. Asharq al-Awsat quoted an army colonel saying the new front opens from the recaptured region of Badush, with the aim of charging at […]

The number of people killed in the April 7th Stockholm terror attack has risen to five after a woman who was a local politician in western Sweden died in hospital. On Friday police confirmed that a woman in her 60s had died on the morning of April 28th in a hospital in southern Sweden, where […]