A bodyguard for former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been killed in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, Tehran’s state media reported. Abdollah Baqeri Niyaraki was also a former member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. He was in Syria serving as a military adviser to the nation’s troops, the semiofficial FARS news agency says. His death comes on the heels of ...

More than 40 people died Friday in a collision between a bus and a truck in southern France, authorities said. Authorities said at least 41 people died inside the bus. They’re cross-checking information on the passengers as they attempt to identify the victims, prosecutor Christophe Auger told reporters. It is unclear if the passenger list can be recovered since the ...

Israel’s Prime Minister has agreed to 24-hour video surveillance at a disputed Jerusalem holy site — a move that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said could be “a game-changer” to reduce regional bloodshed. The round-the-clock observation “will provide comprehensive visibility and transparency” and discourage “anybody from disturbing the sanctity of this holy site,” Kerry said. “Today I hope that ...

A Saudi prince has been arrested in Los Angeles on charges of sexual assault, false imprisonment and battery. Prince Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud is accused of trying to force a woman to perform a sex act on him, Los Angeles police Officer Drake Madison said. Police were called to a home in the city on Wednesday afternoon, where they interviewed numerous ...

Top Speed: 617 MPH Price: $111,200,000.00 Hours To Get Around The World: 40.36 hours The F-1117 Nighthawk is a single-seat, twin-engine stealth attack aircraft that was developed by Lockheed’s secretive Skunk Works division. The plane made its maiden flight in 1981 and achieved initial operating status in 1983, but was operated in secrecy until 1988. The F-1117 was strictly a ground-attack aircraft during the Gulf ...

Embattled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has flown to Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is now his chief sponsor. The talks, held Tuesday night, centered on coordinating military action in Syria, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Peskov said the talks concerned the fight against “terrorist extremist groups,” a phrase the Assad regime regularly uses to describe all ...

Every Monday evening in Dresden, thousands gather in front of the city’s Opera House. They carry German flags and sing nationalist songs with one goal: to stop refugees and migrants from coming to Germany. Thomas is one of them and this Monday he held a placard with a photoshopped picture of Chancellor Angela Merkel dressed in a Muslim headscarf. He ...

Donald Trump and Ben Carson now stand alone at the top of the Republican field, as Carly Fiorina’s brief foray into the top tier of candidates seeking the GOP nomination for president appears to have ended. Fiorina has lost 11 points in the last month, declining from 15% support and second place to 4% and a tie for seventh place. ...

Canada voted in its first new leader in 10 years in a general election that handed Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party an absolute majority — and dealt a stunning blow to incumbent Prime Minister Stephen Harper. “This is what positive politics can do,” Trudeau told supporters in Ottawa early Tuesday morning as the last few results trickled in. “I didn’t make ...

An innocent Eritrean man shot by a security guard and beaten to death by Israeli crowd who mistook him for a gunman from Israeli bus station attack. The Eritrean was identified on Monday as an agricultural worker, Mulu Habtom Zerhom. Video footage shows that he was being beaten by angry Israeli crowd who believed he was a second attacker of the incident on Sunday night ...