A joint operation by American and Iraqi forces killed 15 members of the Islamic State group in western Iraq, the U.S. military announced. The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) tweeted on Friday that in the early hours of Thursday, Aug. 29, U.S. and Iraqi forces killed 15 ISIS operatives. The operatives were “armed with numerous weapons,...
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Former Mexican drug cartel leader who generated 'new era' of organized crime is released from US prison
Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, a former drug cartel leader described as having “generated a new era of organized crime” in Mexico, has now been released from U.S. prison and may be heading back over the border, reports say. Cárdenas Guillén, the past leader of the Gulf cartel who created the Zetas — a gang of former...
Germany deports 28 Afghan nationals to their homeland, the first since the Taliban takeover in 2021
Germany deported Afghan nationals to their homeland on Friday for the first time since August 2021, when the Taliban returned to power. Government spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit described the 28 Afghan nationals as convicted criminals but did not clarify their offenses. GERMAN TERROR ATTACK SUSPECT IDENTIFIED AS A SYRIAN REFUGEE, CHANCELLOR VOWS TO IMPLEMENT STRICT IMMIGRATION...
Explosive experts safely detonate a rare World War II bomb at major chemical plant
Czech explosive experts detonated a World War II bomb on Friday at a major chemical plant in northwestern Czech Republic where it was found last week, authorities said. Besides a few broken windows, the controlled explosion didn’t immediately seem to cause serious damage, police said in a statement. The plant near the city of Litvinov...
Activists join US, NYC officials in effort to name street outside North Korea's UN office after Otto Warmbier
FIRST ON FOX — Otto Warmbier would have been a 29-year-old New Yorker by now, living in Manhattan and working as a financial analyst, perhaps a resident of the Turtle Bay apartment building where he was last photographed waiting for a friend. But instead, the then University of Virginia college student was arrested because he...
Archaeologists find 500-year-old navigational tool in Poland, possible connection to Copernicus
A small ancient tool was unearthed in the canonical gardens of Frombork, Poland, that dates back 500 years. The find was a rare compass made from copper. Its shape slightly resembles that of a wishbone in that it is connected at the top with the two prongs extending into the shape of a letter V....
3 years after US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Israel looks to lessons learned from War on Terror
The U.S. on Friday marked its third anniversary of the complete withdrawal from Afghanistan and the closure of the 20-years-long war, but questions remain over the lessons learned from the U.S. War on Terror and what can be applied to Israel’s fight against Islamic extremism. The collapse of Kabul to the Taliban, followed by the...
Hundreds of thousands of dead fish blanket Greek tourist port after flooding
Greek authorities have started collecting hundreds of thousands of dead fish that poured into a tourist port in the central city of Volos this week after being displaced from their usual freshwater habitats during flooding last year. The floating carcasses created a silvery blanket across the port and a stench that alarmed residents and authorities...
Namibia to cull 83 elephants and distribute meat to people affected by drought
Namibia plans to cull 723 wild animals, including 83 elephants, and to distribute the meat to people struggling to feed themselves because of a severe drought across southern Africa, the environment ministry said. The cull will take place in parks and communal areas where authorities believe animal numbers exceed available grazing land and water supplies,...
German terror attack suspect identified as a Syrian refugee, chancellor vows to implement strict immigration
Authorities identified a 26-year-old man as responsible in the deadly stabbing spree at a festival in Solingen, Germany, last week that left three people dead and wounded eight others as a Syrian national with possible links to the Islamic State. Federal prosecutors in Germany identified the suspect as Issa Al H., omitting his family name...









