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In the predawn hours, 150 Israeli troops, including masked special-forces operatives, arrived in this Palestinian town in armored personnel carriers and hardened jeeps to hunt for guns and gun makers. They found one of each. The operation was deemed a success.
The “Crusaders” knew they wanted to kill Muslims — and with luck, use the “bloodbath” to ignite a religious war — but for months they couldn’t settle on a plan.
Seven years since the global financial crisis, banks don’t look like a source of trouble. They’re making money and have thickened their buffers against bad loans, while extensive new rules have excised much of the risk from their operations.
Kurdish forces fighting the Islamic State in northern Iraq last week shot down a small drone the size of a model airplane. They believed it was like the dozens of drones the terrorist organization had been flying for reconnaissance in the area, and they transported it back to their outpost to examine it.
Cyber-security firm Symantec Corp said on Tuesday that a second hacking group has sought to rob banks using fraudulent SWIFT messages, the same approach that yielded $81 million in the high-profile February attack on Bangladesh's central bank.
The vaunted propaganda operations of the Islamic State, which helped lure more than 30,000 foreign fighters to Syria and Iraq, have dropped off drastically as the extremist group has come under military pressure, according to a study by terrorism researchers at West Point.
The Ethiopian government painted a grim picture of a country under siege by foreign-backed gangs as it justified its newly announced six-month-long state of emergency Monday.
Taliban fighters waged a multipronged assault Monday on the northern city of Kunduz and sought to gain footholds in the southern Helmand province, sending a pointed reminder of their resilience and reach as Afghan officials traveled to Brussels to meet with foreign donors and make a case for continued support.
Voters narrowly rejected a peace accord between President Juan Manuel Santos and a Marxist rebel group that would have ended 52 years of conflict, a startling outcome that thrusts this country into uncertainty.
His name is not Opsec, but I will call him that to guard his privacy. In webspace he is known as a grand master of the dark art of hacking.