U.S. President Donald Trump's aim "is to bring us to our knees to talk" – but national security adviser John Bolton and key U.S. allies in the Mideast want "regime change at the very least" and the "disintegration of Iran," says Iran's FM Mohammad Zarif.
Treasury takes steps against two people and three companies accused of helping the Shiite group evade US sanctions.
Wives, widows, and children of ISIS fighters have been disowned by relatives and abandoned by the state, with children born in ISIS-run hospitals even being denied registration as citizens as a way of punishing them for their fathers' transgressions.
“Providing the imprimatur of three academic departments to such a politically motivated and directed event violates the core academic mission of the university, suppresses student expression and impedes the free exchange of ideas,” says a letter to UMass chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy.
Al Qaida-linked terrorists say attack that killed at least 11 Malian soldiers was revenge for the massacre of some 160 Fulani civilians in the village of Ogossagou last march, which was Mali's worst ethnic bloodletting in living memory.
