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Israel formally acknowledged on Sunday evening that an Iranian-planned terror attack targeting Israeli and Jewish targets in Cyprus was foiled recently, and warned that its operatives would continue thwarting “Iranian terrorism wherever it raises its head,” including in Iran. Cypriot media reported the suspected terror plot earlier Sunday, believed ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban vowed on Tuesday to respect women’s rights, forgive those who resisted them and ensure a secure Afghanistan as part of a publicity blitz aimed at convincing world powers and a fearful population that they have changed. Following a lightning offensive across Afghanistan that ...

PARIS (AFP) — The reported deaths of al-Qaeda’s top two leaders in recent months have raised questions about the future strategy and strength of the terror network, already a shadow of the global force it was two decades ago. The New York Times reported last week that al-Qaeda’s deputy ...

NICE, France — French Prime Minister Jean Castex on Saturday lamented the killings of three people murdered by a knife attacker in the Mediterranean city of Nice, and named “radical Islamism” as an “enemy” of the country. “We know the enemy, it has not only been identified but has ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday branded the grisly killing of three people — including one who was beheaded — in a church in the city of Nice an “Islamist terrorist attack,” with his government raising the terror alert level to maximum countrywide. Macron, who quickly traveled to Nice, ...