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What’s the Difference Between Terrorism and Mass Murder?

What's the Difference Between Terrorism and Mass Murder?

An Uzbek national is accused of using a rented truck to mow down pedestrians on a bike path Tuesday in New York City, killing at least eight and injuring 12, in what Police Commissioner James O’Neill called “the worst terror attack in New York City since Sept. 11, 2001.” According to NYPD Deputy Commissioner of […]

Philippine police: Casino attacker was indebted gambler

Philippine police: Casino attacker was indebted gambler

Philippine police have identified the gunman in Friday’s deadly attack on a casino in the capital, Manila, as a a heavily indebted Filipino who was hooked on gambling. The suspect was named as Jessie Javier Carlos, a 42-year-old father of three and former finance department employee who owed more than $80,000, according to police.

A police officer and seven others are dead after a gruesome Mississippi murder spree

Cory Godbolt, of Bogue Chitto, Mississippi, has been arrested and charged in the murder of eight people, including a sheriff’s deputy. The Clarion-Ledger reports that Godbolt’s murder spree started late Saturday night when a sheriff’s deputy responded to a homeowner who wanted Godbolt removed from their property. He was arrested this morning after a manhunt […]

Egypt identifies Alexandria church bomber as fugitive with militant ties

A relative of one of the victims reacts after a church explosion killed at least 21 in Tanta, Egypt, April 9, 2017. Egypt on Wednesday named the suicide bomber who attacked a cathedral in Alexandria as 31-year-old Mahmoud Hassan Mubarak Abdullah, describing him as a fugitive with links to militant cells that carried out…

Saudi Arabia, Iran, others react to US strike in Syria

Saudi Arabia, Iran, others react to US strike in Syria

The United States had fired nearly 60 Tomahawk missiles at a military air field in Syria, the first direct military action Washington has taken against Syrian government forces in the six-year-old conflict. Washington said the strikes on Friday severely damaged or destroyed Syrian aircraft and support infrastructure and equipment at the airfield. US President Donald […]

Idlib: ‘More gruesome than can ever be described’

Idlib: ‘More gruesome than can ever be described’

Survivors of a suspected chemical attack in Syria’s Idlib province and aid workers on the scene say they are still in shock and struggling to recover from the distressing event of the attack. “It’s just indescribable,” Othman al-Khani, local activist and witness said. “We saw people suffocating while their lungs were collapsing. The hardest was […]

Chemical Weapons Convention disregarded with impunity

Chemical Weapons Convention disregarded with impunity

The official dismantling of Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons began in October 2013, the result of painstaking negotiations. Under the supervision of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, a UN, body the destruction of sarin and “ mustard gas begins: The then US President Barack Obama made his opinion on chemical weapons clear:“A […]

Air raids on mosque near Aleppo ‘kill dozens’

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Dozens of people have been killed after fighter jets struck a mosque during prayer time in a rebel-held village in northern Syria, according to a monitoring group. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitor tracking developments in Syria’s conflict, said Thursday’s air raids in al-Jina, southwest of Atarib near Aleppo, killed at least […]

US confirms Idlib air raid but denies targeting mosque

US confirms Idlib air raid but denies targeting mosque

The US military says it carried out a deadly air strike on an al-Qaeda meeting in northern Syria and will investigate reports that more than 40 civilians were killed when a mosque was struck in the raid. The jets reportedly struck the village at the time of evening prayer so the mosque was full of […]

UN Rights Chief Urges Myanmar Leader to Ease Plight of Rohingya

UN Rights Chief Urges Myanmar Leader to Ease Plight of Rohingya

The U.N.’s top human rights official, Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein, is urging Myanmar’s leader, Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, to use her moral authority to ease the plight of the country’s disenfranchised Rohingya community. Aung San Suu Kyi has come under mounting criticism from the international community for her failure to speak out on […]