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Terrorist group announces ISIS leader killed in battle
Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi had assumed command earlier this year after his predecessor died in a February U.S. raid.
By Bassem Mroue
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Taliban kill, abduct dozens of ex-officers: rights group
Human Rights Watch said the promised amnesty has not stopped local commanders from retaliating against former members of the army, police and intelligence services.
By Lee Keath
Op-ed: Iran must come clean about the passenger jet it shot down
The author makes the case for a transparent international investigation to figure out what Iran did wrong, and why.
By Capt. Lawrence Brennan (retired)
A crash’s grim echoes of Iran Air flight 655
As recently as last week, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani referenced the attack in criticizing President Donald Trump.
By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press
Japan OKs controversial plan to send naval forces to Mideast
But they won't be joining a US-led coalition patrolling the Strait of Hormuz.
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard starts big projects
More than $200 million worth of projects promise to modernize the nation’s oldest continuously operated public shipyard.
Trump says America is on the hunt for Islamic State’s new leader
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that America now has its eye on a new Islamic State leader, telling the Economic Club of New York that “we know where he is.”
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
Syrian Kurds increase security at prisons after al-Baghdadi’s death; a 2nd ISIS leader may have been killed in separate operation
Syrian Kurdish forces said Monday they are increasing security at prisons and detention facilities holding tens of thousands of Islamic State militants and supporters, including foreigners, following the death of the extremist group’s leader in a U.S. military raid.
Iran supports European plan to bolster nuclear deal
President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that Iran supports a plan by European countries to bolster a nuclear deal that Tehran reached with the West in 2015 and from which the United States withdrew last year.
Iran president warns of a region ‘on the edge of collapse’
Iran’s president used the world’s stage on Wednesday to warn that security in the Persian Gulf could unravel with a “single blunder” and its fragile peace be guaranteed only by the region’s countries, not through U.S. intervention or Washington’s “merciless economic terrorism.”
By Aya Batrawy, The Associated Press
UK, France Germany blame Iran for Saudi oil attacks
Britain, France and Germany joined the United States on Monday in blaming Iran for attacks on key oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, but the Iranian foreign minister pointed to claims of responsibility by Yemeni rebels and said: "If Iran were behind this attack, nothing would have been left of this refinery."
By Edith M. Lederer, The Associated Press