Aug 19 Watch 4:27 News Wrap: Thailand offers reward for shrine bombing suspect By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Wednesday, Thai authorities issued a warrant for a man in a yellow shirt suspected in a deadly bombing at a shrine. He is now believed to have acted as part of a network. Also, two more… Continue watching
Aug 17 Bomb blast at major Bangkok Intersection kills at least 16 By Amanda Gomez A bomb exploded inside a popular Hindu shrine during the evening rush hour Monday in Bangkok killing at least 16 people and injuring more than 80 people, according to wire reports from the Thai capital. Continue reading
Aug 15 Defense Department looking at alternatives to Guantanamo Bay By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press The Defense Department is taking another look at the military prison in Kansas and the Navy Brig in South Carolina as it evaluates potential U.S. facilities to house detainees from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, part of the Obama… Continue reading
Aug 13 Watch 6:21 How Islamic State systematically turns girls into sex slaves By PBS News Hour The Islamic State militants have imposed a brutal, ritualistic sex slave trade on thousands of women and girls who belong to the Yazidi sect, a persecuted religious minority. Rukmini Callimachi of The New York Times joins Judy Woodruff from Northern… Continue watching
Aug 13 Watch 2:00 Islamic State claims responsibility for deadly market attack in Baghdad By PBS News Hour In Baghdad, a truck bomb ripped through a crowded food market just after dawn, resulting in one of the deadliest attacks in the Iraqi capital in years. The assault comes as the prime minister is facing pressure to drive back… Continue watching
Aug 08 Watch 2:44 ISIS reportedly holding Christian civilians captive By PBS News Hour The U.S.-led coalition is carrying out more air strikes on the Islamic State’s positions in Syria and Iraq. In Homs province, ISIS is said to be holding more than 200 residents captive, most of which are believed to be from… Continue watching
Jul 18 Watch 9:53 How U.S. regulation may keep remittances from some Somali families By Elisabeth Ponsot According to community leaders in Minneapolis-St. Paul, 80 percent of the Somali-Americans there send money back to East Africa. Aid groups say 40 percent of Somalia’s population relies on those dollars -- known as remittances -- to survive. But recently,… Continue watching
Jul 18 FBI: Deadly shootings in Tennessee illustrate lone gunman threat By Eric Tucker, Associated Press The deadly shootings at military sites in Tennessee illustrate the threat that FBI officials have warned about: violence directed against a vulnerable government target by a lone gunman with apparent terrorist aspirations. Continue reading
Jun 26 Watch 5:21 Terror strikes on three continents, can others be stopped? By PBS News Hour Three deadly attacks in France, Kuwait and Tunisia came just days after Islamic State militants urged followers to stage "calamities for non-believers" during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. William Brangham talks to Peter Neumann of the International Centre for… Continue watching
Jun 26 Death toll rises, arrest made in terror attacks that rattled three countries By News Desk An arrest was made Saturday in connection with two of the three terror attacks carried out on Friday in Kuwait, Tunisia and France. Continue reading