The terrorist group that claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack in Kabul, which killed 13 U.S. service members and at least 170 Afghans, is an offshoot of ISIS, known as ISIS-K. An affiliate of ISIS, the group that spread into northern Iraq from Syria six years ago and once contr...
significant al-Queda terrorist attack will take place in the near future in the U.S. Was Bush informed of this...seems everyone at the White House has amnesia about this. However, please remember this for later when Rice issues a statement on May 16th, 2002, 9 months after the 911 ...
The paper sets out to show the link between the attacked targets and motivations of Al-Qaeda (AQ) as a terrorist group. It introduces AQ and outlines its goal of establishing an Islamic Caliphate and the immediate objective of driving out the United States Interest from the Muslim world. It...
Like its much smaller Iran-backed ally Hamas, Hezbollah has beendesignated a terrorist organizationby the United States government for almost two decades, and several of its leaders, including Nasrallah, are listed as global terrorists. What does Lebanon have to do with the Israel-Hamas war? Leba...
The group has vowed to annihilate Israel and has been responsible for many suicide bombings and other deadly attacks on civilians and Israeli soldiers. The U.S. State Department has designated Hamas a terrorist group in 1997. The European Union and other Western countries also consider ...
The IMF has pressed member countries to comply with international norms thwarting terrorist financing.14The U.N. added AML provisions to address money laundering associated with drug trafficking in the 1998 Vienna Convention, with international organized crime in the 2001 Palermo Convention, and with ...
Climate change caused by global warming will alter weather patterns significantly, and likely cause massive damage to agriculture in many parts of the world. With a global population now approaching 8 BILLION people, food insecurity and starvation in much of the Third World will become a reality ...
“first mobile robot that could reason about its surroundings,” SRI was targeted by Vietnam War protesters for its contract work with ARPA, the Pentagon arm devoted to developing cutting edge technology. The pressure caused Stanford University to formally cut its ties with SRI in the 1970s, ...
Friedl said firefighters used foam on a pile of small propane tanks that ruptured and caused small explosions that added to the fire. The pile of small tanks was near two larger tanks used to refill the cylinders, Friedl added. “It could have been much worse,” Friedl said. “If either...
What caused the crash? The ship involved in the crash, a Singapore-flagged vessel called the Dali, had just left the Port of Baltimore when it reported losing propulsion before crashing into the bridge support. Officials said the crew issued a mayday call, which gave them time to stop traffi...