Tag: Terrorism
US eyes major rollback in Iran sanctions to revive nuke deal
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is considering a near wholesale rollback of some of the most stringent Trump-era sanctions imposed on Iran in a...
Tributes to French police official stabbed by extremist
RAMBOUILLET, France — Masked and in silence, hundreds of police officers, family members and others paid homage Monday to a French police official killed...
Homeland Security to study extremism threat within agency
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security on Monday announced an internal review to address the threat of domestic violent extremism within the sprawling...
5 held amid investigation of deadly police station attack
PARIS — French authorities detained a fifth person Sunday in an anti-terrorism investigation seeking to identify potential accomplices and motives after a police official...
French probe of police station killing focused on motive
RAMBOUILLET, France — Anti-terrorism investigators questioned three people who were detained after a police official was fatally stabbed Friday at a police station outside...
CIA head said to have made unannounced trip to Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — CIA Director William Burns made a recent unannounced visit to Kabul, a senior politician and a well-placed public figure told The...
Gunmen kill two Guard members in Iran’s Kurdish area
TEHRAN, Iran — Unknown gunmen suspected of terrorism killed two members of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, the official IRNA news agency reported on Thursday.
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General: Afghan military will collapse without some US help
WASHINGTON — Afghanistan’s military “will certainly collapse” without some continued American support once all U.S. troops are withdrawn, the top U.S. general for the...
Judge rejects US bid to send refugee to Iraq in terror case
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal judge in California refused Wednesday to allow the extradition to Iraq of a man accused of committing a killing...
US outlines possible sanctions relief for Iran in nuke talks
WASHINGTON — A senior U.S. official said Wednesday that the Biden administration has laid out examples of the kinds of sanctions on Iran it’s...
