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Homeland Security chief Elaine Duke: Terror threat ‘in many ways exceeds’ that of 9/11
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke said Wednesday that the U.S. faces a greater terrorism threat now than it did at the time of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Body scanners installed in Xinjiang for security checks
China’s volatile Xinjiang province has installed new high-tech body scanners for road security checks to prevent any terror attacks before the 19th National Congress of the ruling Communist Party next month, state-media reported.
Iraq: ISIL kills seven soldiers in Anbar province
ISIL fighters have killed at least seven Iraqi soldiers and wounded 16 others in a series of attacks in the country’s Anbar province, security sources said.
Rocket Attack Hits Kabul Airport Hours After Mattis Arrives
The Taliban claimed it fired at least six rockets at Afghanistan’s main airport Wednesday in an attack intended to target Defense Secretary James Mattis.
Palestinian gunman kills three Israelis in West Bank
Three Israelis have been shot dead by a Palestinian at the entrance to the Jewish settlement of Har Adar in the occupied West Bank, Israeli police say.
North Korea Also Has Nerve Agent VX, Chemical Weapons Expert Warns
Amid a flurry of missile tests and inflammatory rhetoric, the world’s attention is focused on North Korea’s nuclear program.
Gunman opens fire in Nashville church; 1 dead, 7 wounded
A masked gunman opened fire at a Nashville church Sunday, walking silently down the aisle as he shot unsuspecting congregants. At least one person was killed and seven others wounded, authorities said.
FBI hunts person who stole ATM van, $1.8 million from Georgia bank
Authorities are hunting a person who snagged $1.8 million after stealing an ATM courier van from a Georgia bank.
Pakistan’s short-range nuclear weapons can counter India’s cold start doctrine: PM Abbasi indicates
Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, without revealing many details, claimed that his country has developed short-range nuclear weapons in order to counter the Indian Army’s cold start doctrine.
US airstrike inflict casualties to foreign ISIS militants in East of Afghanistan
At least four militants four militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in an airstrike in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
