Two US troops have been killed “fighting an ISIL terrorist group affiliate” in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Thursday. “Two US servicemen were killed in action last night in southern Nangarhar, Afghanistan, during an operation against ISIL Khorasan,” Pentagon spokesman Navy Captain Jeff Davis said, using an alternate acronym for the ...
An outbreak of violence between rival groups of inmates at a prison in eastern Venezuela has left 12 dead and 11 injured, the government said Wednesday. A spokesman for the ministry of penitentiary affairs, who gave the toll of dead and wounded, said nine of those killed died of gunshot ...