You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. After a hideous slaughter in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin is still intent on pointing the finger at Kyiv. It’s … Read more
The deadly assault on a sprawling shopping and entertainment venue on the outskirts of Moscow has shocked Russians, with large crowds laying thousands of flowers at the site of the attack over the weekend and President Vladimir Putin promising to exact justice for what he said was a “cynically planned” and “barbaric” terrorist attack. Four … Read more
A few months before being killed in a U.S. Special Forces raid, Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi released a final video message that symbolically passed the torch to far-flung followers in distant lands. His self-declared caliphate had been defeated, he acknowledged, and it was now up to the terrorist group’s regional chapters to carry … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it used ballistic missiles to destroy an Israeli spy site in Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdistan region, according to state media, amid escalating tensions in the Middle East. The Revolutionary Guard Corps said through its media arm early Tuesday local time that the … Read more
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Thursday for two suicide bombings targeting a commemoration for an Iranian general slain in a 2020 U.S. drone strike, the worst militant attack to strike Iran in decades as the wider Middle East remains on edge. Experts who follow the group confirmed that the … Read more
Since Oct. 7, Israelis have struggled to find words raw and powerful enough to convey the trauma of what happened that day. Many have spent the past weeks watching Israeli generals, rescue workers, and forensics experts testify about the grisly ways Hamas killed 1,400 people. Many Israelis, seeking to understand the horrors of Oct. 7, … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. In the grim aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, a … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment When a suicide bombing rocked a political gathering in northwest Pakistan over the weekend, suspicion instantly fell upon the Pakistani Taliban group, whose rising footprint and mounting assaults have alarmed safety officers within the nation. However on Monday, the smaller Islamic State group often known as the Islamic State in Khorasan … Read more