Turkey says gives U.S. new documents on Gulen extradition request
Turkey has handed over to the U.S. Justice Department further documents to back its request for the extradition of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara accuses of orchestrating a failed July 15 coup attempt, Turkey’s justice minister said on Thursday. Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said that in a meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch in Washington on Wednesday he gave U.S. authorities three new folders of...
Did the U.S. ask Ecuador to cut Assange’s internet access?
The United States on Tuesday denied charges from WikiLeaks that Washington asked Ecuador to cut the internet connection of the website’s founder Julian Assange. WikiLeaks on Monday alleged that Assange’s internet access was cut Saturday after the anti-secrecy website published private speeches by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to Goldman Sachs. Assange has been staying at the Ecuadoran Embassy in London since 2012 to...
Al Qaeda Leader Targeted in U.S. Airstrike in Syria
A Pentagon airstrike in Syria on Monday targeted a senior al Qaeda leader whose presence was seen by U.S. officials as a sign of the resurgence of some elements of the extremist movement inside the country. Defense officials said an airstrike targeted what they described as a “prominent member” of the core al Qaeda group, which is distinct organizationally from the al Qaeda affiliate formerly known as the Nusra Front, which now calls...
Here’s what Hillary Clinton told the traveling press corps aboard her campaign plane
If it happened more often, it probably wouldn’t have seemed like such a big deal. After months of not engaging with the traveling press that follows her across the country, Hillary Clinton ventured to the back of her new campaign plane three times on Monday — once just to say hello and twice to start and complete what resembled a news conference in the air (albeit in cramped quarters and with a television reporter sitting directly in...
Prominent IS figure killed in U.S.-led air strike in northern Iraq
A prominent leader of Islamic State (IS) group and four extremist militants were killed Sunday in a U.S.-led coalition airstrike near the IS stronghold of Mosul in northern Iraq, a security source said. The airstrike destroyed four IS positions near the newly-freed town of Qayyara, some 50 km south of Mosul. The prominent leader of IS, among the five killed, was said to be close to the top IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a security...
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