The United States on Tuesday added three senior ISIL group figures on its terror watch list, including an alleged planner behind bloody attacks in Paris and Brussels. The US State Department named Abdelilah Himich, known under the nom de guerre Abu Suleiman Al-Faransi, as the founder of a 300-strong “European ...
Russia has accused Ukraine of abducting two Russian servicemen on the annexed Crimea peninsula, but Kiev said it had merely detained two Ukrainian army deserters. In a statement carried late Monday by local news agencies, the Russian defense ministry said servicemen Maxim Odintsov and Alexander Baranov were “illegally detained and ...
