U.S. and Iran exchange intensifying fire across Mideast, threatening ceasefire deal

The United States launched new airstrikes against Iran early Thursday, and Tehran responded by targeting U.S.-allied Mideast countries in an exchange of fire that threatened an interim deal intended to help end the war in the Middle East. Back-and-forth attacks, including a day earlier, have repeatedly threatened the ceasefire. But Thursday’s appeared bigger all around,…

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Syria says captured Damascus bombing suspects are affiliated with ISIL

Syrian authorities say they have arrested the cell responsible for recent bombings in Damascus and the suspects are affiliated with ISIL (ISIS). “Preliminary investigations into the members of the cell involved in the July 7 Damascus bombings have shown that the cell was affiliated with the IS group,” Ahmad Dalati, head of interior security for…

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Greece Arrests 3 in Connection With Bombings Targeting Governing Party

Greek counterterrorism police officers arrested three people on Friday in connection with recent bombings against members of the country’s conservative party that killed one person and injured several others, the authorities said. The bombings, on July 1 in Thessaloniki, targeted the homes of a parliamentary candidate for the governing New Democracy party, Afroditi Nestora, as…

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Disturbing video released of Molotov cocktail attack outside OKCPD headquarters

Police have released traffic camera video of a man who attempted to set another man in a wheelchair on fire with a Molotov cocktail outside the Oklahoma City Police Department headquarters. According to authorities, at around 8 a.m. on Thursday, July 2, a suspect, later identified as Emery Alexander, approached a man who was crossing…

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