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IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter acknowledged on Thursday he sometimes used a personal, unsecured email account to conduct official business after he took office in February, a practice he called "entirely my mistake." His admission followed a New York Times report revealing that he
Immigration
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – A pizza shop owner originally from Yemen admitted Thursday he tried to recruit fighters for the Islamic State group in Syria. Mufid Elfgeeh, 31, a naturalized U.S. citizen, helped arrange travel and funding and put one recruit in touch with an English-speaking Islamic State contact in
guns
LOS ANGELES (AP) —The man who bought the assault rifles used in the San Bernardino massacre was charged Thursday with terrorism-related counts. The FBI arrested Enrique Marquez, 24, on charges of conspiring with Syed Rizwan Farook to commit terrorist attacks in 2011 and 2012 that they never carried out. Marquez
islam
(RNS) — After the Paris attacks and mass shooting at San Bernardino, the debates on Islam have predictably intensified, feeding hysteria and Islamophobia. While the hate rhetoric is alarming, it is important to note that aspects of Muslim theology and jurisprudence constructed during the early years of the Islamic empire influence
boston
BOSTON – They sat clustered around a coffee table Monday afternoon inside a cramped room at the Eliot Hotel in Boston, three burly veterans who only decided to tell their stories about Benghazi after coming home to a country that couldn't get its own story straight. They don'
new hampshire
HAMPTON, N.H. – Bernie Sanders brought his populist road show to coastal New Hampshire Tuesday, where the Democratic presidential candidate took aim at rival Hillary Clinton for her ties to Wall Street and at Republicans for their bully-boy approach to battling Islamic terrorism. Sanders, a self-avowed social democrat who first
terrorism
WASHINGTON – At least one released Guantanamo Bay detainee has returned to a leadership role with al-Qaeda, as a member of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, according to a website that focuses on the global war against Islamic extremists. The man was once one of Osama bin Laden's personal
terrorism
NEW YORK (AP) — Merriam-Webster has picked a small but powerful suffix as word of the year: ism. But not just any ism. The top isms to earn high traffic spikes and big bumps in lookups on the dictionary company's website in 2015 over the year before are socialism,
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