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Today — 20 December 2025Main stream

U.S. Strikes Islamic State Targets in Syria

20 December 2025 at 07:43
American forces struck dozens of suspected ISIS sites, making good on President Trump’s vow to avenge two American soldiers and a civilian U.S. interpreter killed by the group last week.

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The strikes signal a sharp military escalation in Syria at a time when the United States has reduced its presence in the country since the beginning of the year.
Yesterday — 19 December 2025Main stream

Australia Debates New Laws to Restrict Hate and Suspend Protests

19 December 2025 at 20:59
The authorities are vowing to crack down after a mass shooting at a Jewish holiday celebration. Experts say that what the country needs might not be new laws.

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Police officers at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, on Tuesday, two days after gunmen killed 15 people at a Jewish celebration.

What We Know About the Suspects in the Bondi Beach Shooting

19 December 2025 at 23:06
The police named Sajid Akram, 50, and his son, Naveed Akram, 24, as the suspects in the shooting that claimed 15 lives on Dec. 14.

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The police conducting a search operation at a house in a suburb of Sydney, Australia, on Sunday.

Australia Announces Plan to Buy Back Guns in Wake of Bondi Attack

19 December 2025 at 13:57
The program is expected to take hundreds of thousands of firearms out of circulation, the prime minister said on Friday.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, right, at a news conference in Canberra, Australia, on Friday. He announced a nationwide gun buyback plan on the heels of a deadly mass shooting in Sydney last weekend.

New Judges Take Charge of Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo

19 December 2025 at 08:58
The long-running case had been on hold for nearly a year because of higher court appeals and the retirement of the military judge.

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Lt. Col. Michael Schrama was a student at Georgetown University on Sept. 11, 2001. He is now the fifth judge to preside in the military commission case of defendants in the terrorism attacks.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Bondi Beach Shooting Is a Reminder of ISIS’s Power to Inspire Attacks

ISIS is too weakened to seize territory, experts said, but its ability to churn out propaganda aimed at provoking violence against the West persists.

© Matthew Abbott for The New York Times

Paramedics wheel away a wounded man at the scene of the mass shooting in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday.

Suspect in Bondi Beach Killings Is Charged With Murder and Terrorism

17 December 2025 at 22:01
The Australian authorities said the 24-year-old man, who had been shot by the police, woke from a coma on Tuesday afternoon.

© Matthew Abbott for The New York Times

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