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ISIS

Risk is lower, but Paris attacks could hit United States

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Fran Townsend was counterterrorism adviser to President George W. Bush, she says, her worst nightmare was that the al Qaida network would send men with assault rifles into malls across the American heartland on a crowded shopping day. Al Qaida was more focused on airplanes and spectacular

ISIS

Belgian jihadi ID’d as mastermind of Paris attacks

BRUSSELS (AP) — Once a happy-go-lucky student at one of Brussels' most prestigious high schools, Saint-Pierre d'Uccle, Abdelhamid Abaaoud morphed into Belgium's most notorious jihadi, a zealot so devoted to the cause of holy war that he recruited his 13-year-old brother to join him in Syria.

Syria

France bombs Islamic State HQ, hunts attacker who got away

PARIS (AP) — France launched "massive" air strikes on the Islamic State group's de-facto capital in Syria Sunday night, destroying a jihadi training camp and a munitions dump in the city of Raqqa, where Iraqi intelligence officials say the terror attacks on Paris were planned. In the

terrorism

Solidarité

PARIS (AP) — World leaders are reacting to the deadliest violence to strike France since World War II. Some of their comments: OECD SECRETARY-GENERAL

terrorism

US targets ‘Jihadi John’ in ISIS slaying videos, fate unclear

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. drone strike targeted a vehicle in Syria believed to be transporting the masked Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John, according to American officials. Whether the strike killed the British man who appears in several videos depicting the beheadings of Western hostages was not

Barack Obama

Poll: Americans souring on Obama’s Islamic State plan

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are souring on President Barack Obama's approach to fighting the Islamic State, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that also found deep pessimism about U.S. prospects for success in Afghanistan and uncertainty about Obama's plan to leave thousands of troops there when

Civil War

US commandos head to Syria in fight against Islamic State

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States escalated its fight against the Islamic State in Syria on Friday, pledging the first open deployment of military boots on the ground, even as U.S., Russian and other diplomats pressed a new peace effort that America hopes will hasten the departure of Bashar Assad.

Iraq

American who died in Iraq fight saved mission, Carter says

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. commando fatally wounded in a hostage rescue mission in Iraq heroically inserted himself into a firefight to defend Kurdish soldiers, even though the plan called for the Kurds to do the fighting, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday. Carter applauded Army Master Sgt. Joshua L.