WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. warning to Russia couldn’t have been plainer: Two weeks before the deadliest attack in Russia in years, Americans had publicly and privately advised President Vladimir Putin’s government that “extremists” had “imminent plans” for just such slaughter. The United States shared those advance intelligence indications under a tenet of the U.S. … Read more
TALLINN, Estonia — Flames were still leaping from the Moscow concert hall besieged by gunmen when Russian officials began suggesting who was really to blame. They presented no evidence, only aspersions and suspicion and counterfactual speculation, but in Russia’s eyes the culprit was clear: Ukraine. The allegations that Ukraine, now in its third year of … Read more
A Russian court charged four men with terrorism on Monday after an attack on a Russian concert hall on Friday night killed at least 137 people, making it the deadliest terror attack in the country in two decades. Over 100 people remained in hospital, some of them in a serious condition. Islamic State has claimed … Read more
STORY: The four men are accused of gunning down scores of people at a concert outside Moscow on Friday night in the deadliest attack inside Russia for two decades. Moscow courts’ official Telegram channel said the men, identified by Russian media as all being citizens of the ex-Soviet republic of Tajikistan living in Russia, would … Read more
STORY: Russia on Sunday charged four men it says are responsible for gunning down scores of people at a concert outside Moscow days earlier– the deadliest attack inside Russia in two decades. Russian media previously identified the men as citizens of the ex-Soviet republic of Tajikistan living in Russia. After unverified and brutal videos of … Read more
MOSCOW — Suspects in the Russia concert hall attack, which left more than 130 dead, arrived at a Moscow district court on Sunday night. There was a heavy police presence around the Basmanny District Court, which is expected to determine pretrial restrictions for the men, who are suspected of opening fire on crowds of concertgoers … Read more
WARSAW, Poland — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed at least 133 people, the most deadly attack in Russia in years. Though the U.S. says it has evidence backing up the jihadists’ claim, that didn’t stop Moscow and Kyiv from pointing the finger … Read more
The death count in Friday’s tragic Moscow mass shooting is much higher than originally believed … according to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. The controversial head of state reportedly told the nation during a televised address that 133 people had been killed in the vicious attack at Crocus City Hall, a concert venue on Moscow’s Western … Read more
Shocked Russians brought flowers and teddy bears Saturday to the Crocus City concert hall on the outskirts of Moscow to pay their respects to more than 100 people who died in a grisly attack claimed by the Islamic State group. Mourners hung flowers on fences and piled them on the ground a short distance from … Read more
At the peak of the Islamic State’s power, the territory the group controlled in Syria and Iraq was around the size of Britain. But by early 2019, following airstrikes from a U.S.-led coalition and an assault by a Kurdish-led fighters against the group’s remnants in eastern Syria, U.S.-backed forces declared the final defeat of the … Read more