BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho man has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic St…
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FILE - The criminal complaint against Alexander Scott Mercurio is photographed on April 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
U.S. authorities have charged three men with plotting a campaign of nearly 20 attacks targeting Jewish communities in Europe and the U.S., along with another targeting a British military base. Federal prosecutors brought the terrorism-related charges against a dual Iranian-Iraqi national, an Iranian national and an Iraqi national in a superseding indictment. It was unsealed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald said the dual Iranian-Iraqi national is the only suspect in custody. The indictment alleges the man continued to coordinate plots from jail with his co-defendants in the days leading to an attempted September terrorist attack at a British Royal Air Force Base in western England. U.S. bombers then stationed at the base were flown home soon afterward.
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Israeli strikes and gunfire killed five people in Gaza on Tuesday while overnight strikes in Yemen killed at least one person.
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An American official says the U.S. Air Force has relocated aircraft from a base in eastern England because of a threat. The Military Air Tracking Alliance said that it spotted 13 U.S. aircraft stationed at RAF Mildenhall departing for bases in Scotland, Spain and Germany. The Wall Street Journal first reported the evacuation on Tuesday and said that the threat related to Iran. The report cited “people familiar with the matter.” The relocation of the aircraft came less than two months after the U.S. Air Force withdrew its bombers from the U.S.-run RAF Fairford base in England as police investigated a suspected terror plot linked to Iran. Bombers flying out of RAF Fairford had been used to strike Iran during the Middle East conflict.
KRAKOW, Poland (AP) — Mourners on Sunday laid candles and flowers alongside bullet holes in Krakow, Poland, after the city's central square tu…
Saudi Arabia said it intercepted incoming missiles targeting the kingdom's capital and other regions on Sunday, with falling debris damaging a…
Israel’s president taps opposition candidate Eisenkot to form a government, in setback for Netanyahu
Israeli President Isaac Herzog says he's giving opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot the first opportunity to form a governing coalition following elections on Oct. 27. Eisenkot, a former military chief, ran as the main challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leading a bloc of parties seeking to oust Israel’s longest-serving premier. Neither Eisenkot nor Netanyahu won a clear majority in the vote. But in marathon discussions with the president this week, representatives from most of Israel’s main parties recommended Eisenkot be tasked with assembling a new government.
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The leader of a Kenyan doomsday cult linked to the deaths of hundreds of people has been sentenced to 200 years in prison for the murders of 191 people. The High Court in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa issued the sentence on Friday for Pastor Paul Mackenzie. He was convicted of murdering 190 children and one adult after he ordered his followers to starve themselves to death in order to meet Jesus. Mackenzie is also facing terrorism and manslaughter charges for the more than 200 other victims as well as child abuse and torture charges in two other courts.
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TAYIBE, Israel (AP) — A veteran Arab lawmaker in Israel says his bloc is willing to break with decades of precedent and join forces with Jewis…