BAGHDAD (AP) — The Islamic State group gave only three options for the soldiers and police officers guarding Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, when they neared it a year ago: Repent, run or die.
On another day of turmoil for FIFA and the World Cup, the bidding contest for the 2026 tournament was put on hold.
The US-led coalition carrying out air strikes against the Islamic State group needs to target the jihadists’ command centres, but this is easier said than done, French army chief Denis Mercier said Wednesday. “It is exactly the same problem in Iraq today. France has ruled out joining air strikes against IS in Syria until a credible political transition has taken place in Damascus.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The engineer driving an Amtrak train wasn’t using his cellphone to talk, text or download data just before the train derailed in Philadelphia last month, safety investigators said Wednesday, deepening the mystery of what caused the accident that killed eight and injured about 200.
The white police officer who threw a black bikini-clad girl to the ground and pulled his gun on two others while responding to a disturbance at a pool party in McKinney, Texas, resigned on Tuesday. But some community members say his resignation is not enough.
WILLSBORO, N.Y. (AP) — Police plan to resume searching homes located near the maximum-security prison in northern New York where two killers escaped using power tools, authorities said Wednesday as they renewed their plea for help from the public.
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Obama administration is nearing a decision on how to improve and accelerate the training of Iraqi security forces in light of recent setbacks against the Islamic State, including the possibility of setting up new training camps in Anbar Province, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
The two escaped inmates from a New York maximum security prison have far outlasted the typical jailbreak period, according to experts and corrections data, as state and federal authorities were hunting them for the fifth straight day on Wednesday. “They invest a lot of time and effort in planning their escape,” said Martin Horn, a former prison official in New York City and Pennsylvania who now lectures at John Jay
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Amtrak said on Wednesday that it has won government approval to test a new rail safety system between New York and Washington that federal inspectors say would have prevented the deadly May 12 derailment in Philadelphia. The statements were contained in separate pieces of written testimony submitted by Amtrak and the FCC to the Senate Commerce Committee ahead of a hearing on positive train