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Russia

UK lawmakers approve airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria

LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers voted by a wide margin Wednesday to join the international campaign of airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria, after Prime Minister David Cameron asserted that bombing the "medieval monsters" in their heartland would make Britain safer. The 397-223 vote in the House

terrorism

France honors attack victims in city subdued by mourning

A subdued France paid homage Friday to those killed two weeks ago in the attacks that gripped Paris in fear and mourning, honoring each of the 130 dead by name as the president pledged to "destroy the army of fanatics" who claimed so many young lives. With each

Massachusetts

Refugee bill draws hundreds to rally denouncing fear-mongering

BOSTON – Carrying signs depicting the Statue of Liberty or scrawled with slogans, several hundred people gathered on Boston Common in front of the State House Friday to protest a measure passed by the U.S. House of Representatives that would toughen screening requirements for refugees from war-torn Syria. "If

terrorism

The world is at war

Two weeks before the Paris massacre, we took our twin granddaughters, age 11, for their first visit to Paris. They live in Berlin and were eager to see Mona Lisa smile, watch artists paint in Montmartre and take a boat trip on the Seine. One night we watched the tip

Islamic jihad

The blood of Paris

Like millions of other Americans, I watched in horror on Friday as the news unfolded of the terrorist attacks in Paris, which left at least 132 innocent civilians dead and countless others wounded. I watched as cable news anchors wondered aloud how a free society can protect itself from the

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Officials: Suspected Paris mastermind, cousin died in raid

PARIS (AP) — The Belgian jihadi suspected of masterminding deadly attacks in Paris died along with his cousin in a police raid on a suburban apartment building, officials said Thursday. Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins' office said 27-year-old Abdelhamid Abaaoud was identified based on skin samples, but authorities did not know

police

2 dead, 7 arrested in raid targeting Paris attack mastermind

SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — A woman wearing an explosive suicide vest blew herself up Wednesday as heavily armed police tried to storm a suburban Paris apartment where the suspected mastermind of last week's gun and bomb rampage was believed to be holed up, police said. They said one man

ISIS

Risk is lower, but Paris attacks could hit United States

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Fran Townsend was counterterrorism adviser to President George W. Bush, she says, her worst nightmare was that the al Qaida network would send men with assault rifles into malls across the American heartland on a crowded shopping day. Al Qaida was more focused on airplanes and spectacular