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Thirty killed, 55 wounded in Syrian blasts: report

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Two car bomb attacks on Syrian security sites in Damascus killed 30 people and wounded 55 others, most of them civilian, the Lebanese news channel Al Manar said Friday.Al Manar cited information from its own correspondents on the ground. ...

Syria blasts kill civilians, soldiers: state TV

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Several people were killed in the two blasts on Syrian security sites in Damascus, state television said on Friday."The terrorist attacks left a number of martyrs, both civilian and military. Most of the victims were civilian," it said in ...

Massachusetts man found guilty of aiding al Qaeda

BOSTON (Reuters) - A jury on Tuesday found a Massachusetts man guilty of supporting al Qaeda by translating Arabic messages and supporting militants through traveling to Yemen for terrorism training.Tarek Mehanna, 29, was found guilty on all seven counts against him.Mehanna was ...

Jury finds Massachusetts man guilty of aiding terrorism

BOSTON (Reuters) - A jury on Tuesday found a Massachusetts man guilty of supporting al Qaeda by translating Arabic messages and supporting militants through traveling to Yemen for terrorism training.Tarek Mehanna, 29, was found guilty on all seven counts against him.Mehanna was ...

Senate passes new rules on detainees

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress on Thursday approved a defense bill requiring the military to handle suspected militants allied with al Qaeda, sending it to President Barack Obama for his expected signature into law.Final action came when the Senate approved the bill 86-13, ...

No threat from package at Credit Suisse in New York

NEW YORK (Reuters) - There is no threat from a suspicious package that arrived on Wednesday in the mail at the Credit Suisse headquarters in New York City that forced part of the building to be evacuated, police said."It appears to be ...

Suspicious package at Credit Suisse in New York

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Parts of the Credit Suisse headquarters in New York were evacuated on Wednesday due to a suspicious package that arrived in the mail, police said, a week after a letter bomb was sent to Deutsche Bank in Germany.A ...

Lawmakers freeze $700 million to Pakistan over IEDS

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The leaders of a U.S. House-Senate negotiating panel said on Monday they had agreed to freeze $700 million in U.S. aid to Pakistan until it provides some assurances of assistance in the fight against improvised explosive devices in the ...

Al Qaeda members flee in south Yemen jailbreak: official

ADEN (Reuters) - At least 14 prisoners, including members of al Qaeda, escaped from a prison in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Monday, a Yemeni security official said.The official in the south of the country, where Islamist fighters have seized ...

Anarchists claim Italian letter bomb: sources

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian anarchist group claimed responsibility for a letter bomb that injured the chief of a state tax collection agency in Rome Friday, police sources said, days after a device linked to the same group and addressed to a ...
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