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Sen. Chris Murphy expressed dismay that the United States killed Iranian Gen. Qassim Soleimani without first obtaining congressional approval. "Soleimani was an enemy of the United States," the Connecticut Democrat tweeted Thursday night. "That’s not a question. The question is this — as reports suggest, did America just assassinate, without any congressional authorization, the second most powerful person in Iran, knowingly setting off a potential massive regional war?" Soleimani, 62, was killed Thursday in an airstrike near Baghdad International Airport along with Abu Mahdi al Muhandis, head of the Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces. Murphy attacked President Trump last week for...

SNIPPET: "A genuinely inspiring issue of AQAP's flagship English language publication. This is what pages 1, 2, & 3 look like:" SNIPPET: "The remaining pages were rendered intentionally blank by person or persons unknown."

(CNSNews.com) – Although no group has claimed responsibility for Monday’s deadly bomb blasts at the Boston Marathon, a leading al-Qaeda ideologue last year recommended that jihadists in America include sporting events in their list of prospective terror targets.

AFP - Al-Qaeda's military chief in Yemen warned Americans in an audio message posted online Sunday that the Boston bombings revealed a fragile security as he urged Muslims to defend their religion.

Setara Qassim said she was flying home to Burbank, Calif., from Las Vegas in June when a Southwest Airlines flight attendant gave her a blanket and told her to cover up. "The flight attendant came up to me and asked me if I had a sweater, and I said, 'No, because why would I pack a sweater in the heat?'" Qassim said. "So I asked her why, and she said I needed to cover up." Just last Friday, a woman from San Diego told a similar story to the "Today" show. She said a Southwest Airlines flight attendant had also...

The Washington Timeswww.washingtontimes.com Iraqi defense official slainBy Betsy PisikTHE WASHINGTON TIMESPublished July 20, 2004 BAGHDAD -- Gunmen yesterday killed a senior Iraqi defense official and a suicide bomber blew up a Baghdad police station, killing 10 and wounding at least 60, as insurgents continued a deadly campaign targeting Iraq's new government.     The fresh reports of violence came just hours before a convoy of Philippine soldiers crossed the border into Kuwait, completing a much-criticized withdrawal in order to win the release of a kidnapped Philippine truck driver.     The Bush administration, the new Iraqi government and several governments in the international security...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A senior Iraqi Defense Ministry official has been assassinated near his home in southern Baghdad, in the latest of a string of attacks on Iraqi officials, a ministry spokesman said on Monday. He told Reuters Issam Jassem Qassim, a director general in the ministry, was killed by three gunmen at around 10 p.m. on Sunday.