Us Embassy Attacked In Syria

U.S. diplomats and troops in Iraq and Syria were targeted in three rocket and drone attacks in the past 24 hours, U.S. and Iraq officials said on Wednesday

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Paris on Monday for talks after the attacks on the French capital, vowing to defeat terrorism as he stood before a US embassy lit up in the colours of the French flag.

An Ohio man claiming sympathy with Islamic State militants and charged with plotting to attack the US Capitol said in a television interview that he would have shot President Barack Obama in the head.

Six suspected terrorists killed in a New Year's Eve police raid near Jakarta had planned to carry out a string of attacks targeting the US embassy, a church and Buddhist temples.

A string of apparently coordinated bombings and a shooting across Iraq killed at least 51 and wounded dozens yesterday, spreading fear throughout the country in a wave of violence that is raising the prospect of a return to widespread sectarian killing a decade after a US-led invasion.

Syrian government supporters smashed windows at the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on Monday, raised a Syrian flag and scrawled graffiti calling the American ambassador a "dog" in anger over the envoy's visit last week to an opposition stronghold, witnesses said.French Embassy security guards in the capital fired in the air to hold back supporters of Pre...

U.S. diplomats and troops in Iraq and Syria were targeted in three rocket and drone attacks in the past 24 hours, U.S. and Iraq officials said on Wednesday

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Paris on Monday for talks after the attacks on the French capital, vowing to defeat terrorism as he stood before a US embassy lit up in the colours of the French flag.

An Ohio man claiming sympathy with Islamic State militants and charged with plotting to attack the US Capitol said in a television interview that he would have shot President Barack Obama in the head.

Six suspected terrorists killed in a New Year's Eve police raid near Jakarta had planned to carry out a string of attacks targeting the US embassy, a church and Buddhist temples.

A string of apparently coordinated bombings and a shooting across Iraq killed at least 51 and wounded dozens yesterday, spreading fear throughout the country in a wave of violence that is raising the prospect of a return to widespread sectarian killing a decade after a US-led invasion.

Syrian government supporters smashed windows at the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on Monday, raised a Syrian flag and scrawled graffiti calling the American ambassador a "dog" in anger over the envoy's visit last week to an opposition stronghold, witnesses said.French Embassy security guards in the capital fired in the air to hold back supporters of Pre...