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Former US resident at Guantanamo seeks to cut prison term

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Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr leaves court in Edmonton on Monday, March 25, 2019. A judge ruled Monday that that a war crimes sentence for former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr has expired. Monday's ruling means he no longer faces the threat of returning to prison. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canadian judge rules ex-Gitmo sentence has expired

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FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2001 image made from video broadcast by the Qatari-based television station Al-Jazeera, a young boy, center, identified as Hamza bin Laden, reads a poem about Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar in Ghazni, Afghanistan. Years after the death of his father at the hands of a U.S. Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan, it is now Hamza bin Laden who finds himself squarely in the crosshairs of world powers. In rapid succession in recent weeks, the U.S. put a bounty of up to a $1 million for him; the U.N. Security Council named him to a global sanctions list, sparking a new Interpol notice for his arrest; and his home country of Saudi Arabia revealed it had revoked his citizenship. (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera via APTN, File)

Born into al-Qaida: Hamza bin Laden’s rise to prominence

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

In this image from video released by the CIA on Nov. 1, 2017, Hamza bin Laden is shown at his wedding. Years after the death of his father at the hands of a U.S. Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan, Hamza bin Laden finds himself clearly in the crosshairs of world powers. The U.S. has put up to a $1 million bounty for him. The U.N. Security Council has named him to a global sanctions list, sparking a new Interpol notice for his arrest. His home country of Saudi Arabia has revoked his citizenship. (CIA via AP, File)

Hamza bin Laden, Osama bin Laden’s son, in crosshairs as al Qaeda re-emerges

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2018 file photo, a fighter of Syrian opposition stands at a checkpoint in northwestern city of Idlib, Syria. Waves of violence in northwestern Syria has killed scores of people since mid Jan. 2019 and displaced tens of thousands raising concerns that a truce reached in Sept. 2018 between Turkey and Russia is in danger as the final battle to retake the Islamic State group’s last pocket of territory plays out in eastern Syria. (Ugur Can/DHA via AP, File)

As IS fight nears end, violence flares on other Syrian front

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

This wanted poster released by the U.S. Department of State Rewards for Justice program shows Hamza bin Laden. Saudi Arabia announced Friday, March 1, 2019 it had revoked the citizenship of bin Laden, the son of the late al-Qaida leader who has become an increasingly prominent figure in the terror network. (Rewards for Justice via AP)

Saudi Arabia revokes citizenship of Hamza bin Laden

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Terror Attack Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Attention must focus on Yemen’s ‘Houthis,’ radical Islamists dedicated to an apocalyptic creed

By Peter Vincent Pry

A group of suspected al Qaeda militants accused in the killing of an army general in a suicide bombing stand trial at a state security court in Sanaa, Yemen, in this April 22, 2014 file photo. (Associated Press)

Iran-al Qaeda alliance may provide legal rationale for U.S. military strikes

By Ben Wolfgang and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - This Dec. 16, 2018, file photo provided by the al-Qaida-affiliated Ibaa News Agency purports to show al-Qaida-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, militants detaining a member of the Islamic State group in the countryside of Idlib, Syria. A U.N. report says international terrorist groups carried out more attacks in Iraq and Syria in the last six months of 2018 than in any other country. (Ibaa News Agency via AP, File)

UN report: IS responsible for most attacks in Iraq and Syria

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2018, file, photo, tribesmen loyal to Houthi rebels hold up their weapons as they attend a gathering to show their support for the ongoing peace talks being held in Sweden, in Sanaa, Yemen. The United Nations has cast doubt on the claims by Yemen’s Shiite rebels to have withdrawn from the port of Hodeida, saying such steps can only be credible if all other parties can verify them.(AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

House Democrats advance bill to shut down U.S. role in Saudi-Yemen war

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. walks out of the Senate Chamber after passing a continuing resolution to reopen the government, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

McConnell warns against early exit from Syria, Afghanistan

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Government shelling kills 10 in rebel holdout in Syria

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Illustration on "neo-imperialism" by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

The age of neo-imperialism

By Clifford D. May

In this grab taken from security camera footage released to the local media, heavily armed attackers walk in the compound of a hotel, in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. Extremists launched an attack on a luxury hotel in Kenya's capital, sending people fleeing in panic as explosions and heavy gunfire reverberate through the neighborhood. A police officer says he saw bodies, &quot;but there was no time to count the dead.&quot; Al-Shabab _ the Somalia-based extremist group _ is claiming responsibility. (Security Camera Footage via AP)

The Latest: UN Security Council condemns Kenya attack

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Ohio man sentenced in terrorism funding case

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This Sunday, Oct. 15, 2000, file photo shows investigators in a speed boat examining the hull of the USS Cole at the Yemeni port of Aden, after a powerful explosion ripped a hole in the U.S Navy destroyer. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis, File) ** FILE **

Jamal al-Badawi, U.S.S. Cole attack planner, killed in U.S. airstrike

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Fighting erupts between rival insurgent groups in Syria

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The ISIS flag

Islamic State now outdraws al Qaeda in drive for U.S., Western recruits: Survey

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011, file photo, hundreds of newly trained al-Shabab fighters perform military exercises in the Lafofe area some 18 km south of Mogadishu, in Somalia. Somali intelligence officials say the largest U.S. military airstrike against al-Shabab extremists in Somalia in nearly a year largely destroyed a training camp on Friday, Oct. 12, 2018, and killed more fighters than the U.S. announced. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

Al-Shabab threat grows, prompts U.S. military bombing campaign in Somalia

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, Pool)

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel ramp up terror fight in Africa

By Jacob Wirtschafter and Sherif Fathi Elhelwa — Special to The Washington Times