Germany fears more ‘lone wolf’ attacks after train rampage
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany is likely to face more Islamist attacks, its interior minister said on Wednesday, but played down any link between the government’s open-door refugee policy and Monday’s ax assault on a train in Bavaria.
Anti-IS coalition has killed 20 operators plotting external attacks: Carter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Wednesday the coalition fighting Islamic State had killed more than 20 of the militant group’s operatives who were conspiring to carry out external attacks.
Explosions hit Syrian town near Golan Heights
BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian rebels and a monitoring group said two explosions that struck a Syrian town near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Wednesday were caused by an Israeli air strike but Lebanon’s Hezbollah blamed rocket fire by al Qaeda…
Seeing no future, deserters and draft-dodgers flee Syria
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Nasser lifts another cigarette to his mouth with a scarred left hand, chain smoking and watching action films on a grainy TV at his friend’s flat in a Beirut suburb. Since deserting President Bashar al-Assad’s army he mostly avoids v…
Yemen explosion kills four soldiers: security forces
ADEN (Reuters) – A blast in the southern Yemeni city of Aden killed four soldiers and wounded six, the city’s security administration said, in an attack claimed by Islamic State.
Ukraine sees ulterior motives after car bomb kills journalist
KIEV (Reuters) – An award-winning journalist working for the online investigative website Ukrayinska Pravda was killed by a car bomb in central Kiev early on Wednesday morning, in what President Petro Poroshenko said was an attempt to destabilize Ukrai…
UK will heed voters on migration, but needs good EU deal: May
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday she would heed the message about immigration sent by voters who chose to leave the European Union last month, but Britain also needed to make sure it got a good new deal on trade w…
From Pyongyang with love: North Korea restarts coded spy broadcasts
SEOUL (Reuters) – “Now we’ll begin a mathematics review assignment for members of the 27th expeditionary unit of the distance learning university,” the woman’s voice crackled over the radio.
U.S. says its forces will keep operating in South China Sea
BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. military forces will continue to operate in the South China Sea in accordance with international law, the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations John Richardson said on Wednesday during a visit to a Chinese naval base.
Israeli parliament enacts impeachment law, critics say targets Arab MPs
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s parliament on Wednesday passed a law enabling it to impeach deputies for incitement to violence, racism or support for armed struggle against the state, in a move critics said was aimed mainly at Arab legislators.
