US Drone Strike Kills Top Al-Shabab Assassin in Somalia

Edit Voa News 02 Apr 2016
aircraft in Somalia has killed a senior member of the al-Shabab militant group, a U.S ... drone attack, Hassan Ali Dhore, led a team of al-Shabab assassins, according to Somali officials. He was named by the Somali government last year on a "most-wanted" list of 12 al-Shabab members involved in terror attacks in Mogadishu ... Links to al-Qaida....

Hawk champing at the bit after sitting out spring

Edit MLB 02 Apr 2016
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Harvey pumped for first opener assignment

Edit MLB 02 Apr 2016
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Death toll from east Damascus airstrikes rises to more than 30

Edit Indian Express 02 Apr 2016
The death toll from air strikes in the Deir al-Asafir district southeast of Damascus has risen to more than 30, mostly women and children, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the White Helmet civil defence group ... Two strikes hit the outskirts of Deir al-Asafir and at least seven hit the village of Bala, just north of Deir al-Asafir, the Observatory said....

Syria rejects French claims of ceasefire violation

Edit Press TV 02 Apr 2016
Syrian authorities announced on Friday that the airborne attacks in the Deir al-Asafir district, which is situated southeast of Damascus, the previous day targeted members of the Takfiri Daesh and al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front terrorist groups ... Daesh and al-Nusra Front are excluded from the ceasefire....

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, murderous Islamic State leader, just a 'normal family man'

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 02 Apr 2016
 When Saja al-Dulaimi talks about her ex-husband, to whom she was married briefly in 2008, it's almost as if she's speaking of three different men ... It turns out," she said, "I was married to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi." ... Eventually, they said, they discovered that she was Saja al-Dulaimi, an Iraqi who had been briefly married six years ago to the man who now heads Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi....

Ahead of Narendra Modi visit, Saudi chokes terrror financing

Edit DNA India 02 Apr 2016
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Riyadh on Sunday, Saudi Arabia has placed sanctions on four individuals and two organisations believed to be linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Al Qaeda ... The organisations now under sanction include Al Rahmah Welfare Organization, which the U.S. Treasury Department said was a front for Al Qaeda....

Senior leader of al-Shabaab targeted by U.S. airstrike: Pentagon

Edit Xinhua 02 Apr 2016
WASHINGTON, April 1 (Xinhua) -- The Pentagon said on Friday it had conducted an airstrike against a senior leader of the al-Qaeda-affiliated ......

Catcher Teagarden suspended 80 games for drug violation

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 02 Apr 2016
Al Jazeera accused several high-profile athletes of using ... Al Jazeera broadcast video of Teagarden talking about taking a banned substance called Delta-2....

Islamic State incites Saudis to kill their own relatives

Edit Topix 02 Apr 2016
Mishari al-Rashidi, whose foster brother Sergeant Bader al-Rashidi was killed by six of his own cousins who had joined Islamic State, at home in Hail, Saudi Arabia, last month. Buraida, Saudi Arabia. The men were not hardened militants ... ....

Pablo Sandoval reiterates commitment to team

Edit The Providence Journal 02 Apr 2016
MONTRÉAL — He was on all the posters around Montréal Friday, in the promotional material that’s dotted this city for weeks. He was on the scoreboard before the game, ready to fire a throw across the diamond.He was not in the starting lineup, though, just like he won't be on Opening Day.It's a weird time for Pablo Sandoval.The ironic [...]> ... ....

Obama says drone strikes carefully planned

Edit USA Today 02 Apr 2016
The strike targeted Hassan Ali Dhoore, a top leader of al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda affiliate.        .   ... ....

Does baseball have a future in Montreal?

Edit The Providence Journal 02 Apr 2016
MONTRÉAL — "It's almost like we were the Cinderella always around here," Warren Cromartie said, "and even Cinderella, she found her prince."Cromartie, who played for the Expos from 1974 to 1983, is the head of the Montréal Baseball Project — a group designed to study the feasibility of bringing a major-league franchise back to the city ... ....
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