CNN – Europe/Mideast/Africa

By Hadas Gold, Abeer Salman, Mohammed Tawfeeq, Richard Roth and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Israel launched airstrikes targeting alleged weapons manufacturing and storage sites in Gaza on Thursday, following a rocket attack from the coastal enclave, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. In a statement, the IDF said “fighter jets struck a weapons manufacturing site”

By Nathan Hodge, CNN One day after delivering a state of the nation speech before Russia’s parliament, President Vladimir Putin made an appearance before a flag-waving crowd at Moscow’s Luzhniki stadium. It was a chilling spectacle. The Kremlin leader was essentially presiding over a militaristic pep rally aimed at drumming up public support for his

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN At a major international defense exhibition in the United Arab Emirates this week, tucked away in a distant corner, a large purple structure featuring Russia’s name has been erected far from the sight of most visitors. The biennial International Defence Exhibition (IDEX) in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi is the largest

By Hadas Gold, Abeer Salman, Richard Allen Greene and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN At least 11 Palestinians were killed Wednesday during a rare daytime raid by Israeli military forces in the occupied West Bank that also left more than 100 injured, Palestinian officials said in the aftermath of an operation described by the local director of

By Joseph Ataman, Marguerite Lacroix and Oliver Brescoe, CNN A teenage student killed a teacher at a school in southwestern France on Wednesday, authorities said. The 50-year-old female teacher died from injuries inflicted by the attacker, a 16-year-old student, said French government spokesman Olivier Veran. The assailant was a teenager suffering from psychological troubles who

By Ivana Kottasová and Yulia Kesaieva, CNN The body lay across the street from Ivan Fedorov’s house for several days. Fedorov didn’t dare to go outside, so he never found out who the dead man was. All he knows is that he was a civilian. “He was just a passer-by who got shot,” Fedorov told

By Sophie Tanno and Jessie Gretener, CNN Shamima Begum, who left the United Kingdom to join ISIS at the age of 15, has lost her appeal against the decision to revoke her British citizenship. Judge Robert Jay gave the decision on Wednesday following a five-day hearing in November, during which her lawyers argued the UK

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the March 2004 bombings of commuter trains in Spain, which killed 193 people and injured more than 1,800. The bombings are the deadliest terrorist attack in Spain’s history. Facts On March 11, 2004, 10 bombs in backpacks and other small bags exploded on four commuter trains. One bomb