The man who detonated a bomb outside the Kabul airport in August 2021, killing 170 Afghans and 13 American service members, was an Islamic State operative who had been held in a coalition detention facility in Afghanistan but was freed by the Taliban, according to a new U.S. military review that has identified him for the first time. Some service members who were at the airport that day claimed they had spotted the suicide bomber at the site and were ordered not to engage. But the review found...
The Biden administration on Monday confirmed that the Afghan suicide bomber who killed more than a dozen U.S. service members at the Kabul airport in 2021 had been freed from a prison abandoned during the U.S. military's withdrawal from Afghanistan.
JERUSALEM (JNS) – The mayors of cities in Massachusetts, South Carolina and Oregon returned last week from a four-day visit to Israel, where they met with political officials, business leaders, academics and regional experts. The three U.S. municipal leaders—Jon Mitchell, the mayor of New Bedford, Mass.; Daniel Rickman, mayor of Columbia, S.C.; and Travis Stovall, mayor […]
Talks continue in Cairo for a hostage release deal and temporary truce, but US and Israeli officials have expressed fears that most of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas since October 7 have been killed in captivity, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Wednesday. While the IDF has confirmed the deaths of 34 […]
Nearly half of US prisons use water that is likely contaminated with PFAS, also known as "forever chemicals."
President Joe Biden called Tuesday for Israel to accept a unilateral ceasefire in Gaza for six to eight weeks -- before any of the remaining Israeli hostages are set free by Hamas, undermining Israel's military and diplomatic position.
Over 70 prison guards signed a petition asking for Brian Dorsey's sentence to be commuted to life in prison.
Aimee Harris received a month in prison for selling writings by President
Worker said to back off after companion contacts Israeli ambassador; incident follows similar interrogation of Supernova massacre survivors at Manchester airport
Anderson was captured by Islamist militants and held for nearly seven years during Lebanon's civil war.
Exclusive: contaminated blood campaigners say internal 1976 Immuno AG document proves British government negligenceAnalysis: families hope report will finally apportion blameThe British government was willing to risk infecting NHS patients to get “lower-priced” blood products, according to a document that campaigners claim proves state and corporate guilt in one of the country’s worst ever scandals.A public inquiry into the deaths of an estimated 2,900 people infected with conditions such as HIV...
A former U.S. ambassador who has been previously charged with spying for Cuba was sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Victor Manuel Rocha, 73 who previously served as U.S. ambassador to Bolivia from 2000 to 2002, pled guilty to two counts that charge him with “conspiring to