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| Exclusive - Investigators piece together portrait of Pakistani woman in shooting massacre | | Sunday, December 06, 2015 3:25 AM | |
| | By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Tashfeen Malik's path to accused mass killer in California began in a small city on the Indus River in Pakistan's Punjab province. It was from here, when she was a toddler, that she moved with her father Gulzar 25 years ago to Saudi Arabia, where he became more deeply religious, more conservative and more hardline, according to a family member. A picture slowly emerged on Friday of the role and possible motivations of 27-year-old Malik in this week's killing of 14 people in California, including her apparent pledge of allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State militant group, according to U.S. officials. |
| Islamic State claims California mass killers as followers | | Sunday, December 06, 2015 3:25 AM | |
|  By Yasmeen Abutaleb and Rory Carroll SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - Islamic State said on Saturday that the married couple who killed 14 people in a mass shooting in Southern California were its followers, and FBI agents raided a home apparently belonging to a friend of the husband. Islamic State's claim came in an online audio broadcast three days after U.S.-born Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his Pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik, 29, opened fire with assault rifles on a holiday party for civil servants in San Bernardino, 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles.
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| Islamic State broadcast says followers of the group carried out California attacks | | Sunday, December 06, 2015 3:25 AM | |
|  Islamic State said in an online radio broadcast on Saturday that two followers of the Islamist militant group had carried out Wednesday's attack on a social services agency party in California where 14 people were killed. "Two followers of Islamic State attacked several days ago a centre in San Bernadino in California, opening fire inside the centre, leading to the deaths of 14 people and wounding more than 20 others" the group's daily broadcast al-Bayan said, giving information already widely reported. A news agency that supports Islamic State, which controls large parts of Syria and Iraq, said on Friday the attackers were followers of the group.
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| New York Times, in rare front-page editorial, calls for outlawing some rifles | | Sunday, December 06, 2015 3:25 AM | |
|  The New York Times, in its first front-page editorial in nearly a century, on Saturday called for outlawing the kinds of rifles used in the California shooting massacre this week that left 14 people dead. The newspaper's editorial comes three days after Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple, carried out the mass shooting in San Bernardino with legally purchased, .223 caliber assault-style rifles. "Certain kinds of weapons, like the slightly modified combat rifles used in California, and certain kinds of ammunition, must be outlawed for civilian ownership," the New York Times editorial said.
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| Yemen peace talks to convene Dec. 15, Yemeni minister tells Saudi TV | | Sunday, December 06, 2015 3:22 AM | |
| | United Nations-backed peace talks aimed at ending eight months of civil war in Yemen between an Iranian-allied militia group and the embattled Saudi-backed government will convene on Dec. 15, Saudi-owned TV quoted Yemen's foreign minister as saying. "Consultations on the implementation of Resolution 2216 will be held on Dec. 15," the network quoted Abdel-Malek al-Mekhlafi as saying in a news flash, referring to a U.N. Security Council decision calling for Yemen's dominant Houthi militia to quit major cities. The U.N. envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, met President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi on Saturday to discuss prospects for peace talks between his embattled Aden-based government and Houthi forces, the president's office said. |
| Argentina arrests Syrians traveling on false Greek passports | | Sunday, December 06, 2015 3:19 AM | |
| | By Hugh Bronstein BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Authorities in Argentina arrested six Syrians who flew into the South American country on false Greek passports, a spokesman for the federal police told Reuters on Saturday, adding that the bogus travel documents were probably obtained in Turkey. The six, including one minor, were taken into custody at a downtown Buenos Aires hotel on Friday after landing at the city's Ezeiza International Airport on Thursday, the spokesman said. A spate of detentions in South and Central America over recent weeks show the region has become a route for Syrians fleeing war in their homeland. |
| U.S. rethinking strategy on fighting homegrown attacks - NYT | | Sunday, December 06, 2015 3:16 AM | |
|  U.S. officials, faced with an evolving threat of deadly attacks by homegrown extremists, are rethinking their strategy on battling domestic terror after Wednesday's assault that killed 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif., the New York Times reported on Saturday. The United States should beef up airline security by increasing agents in overseas airports, bolster standards for visa waiver programs, and improve communications between officials and Muslim communities to help locate threats, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson told the Times. "We have moved to an entirely new phase in the global terrorist threat and in our homeland security efforts," Johnson told the newspaper in an interview.
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| FBI searches California shooter Farook's former neighbor's home | | Sunday, December 06, 2015 3:15 AM | |
|  By Rory Carroll and Yasmeen Abutaleb RIVERSIDE, Calif. (Reuters) - Federal agents in Riverside conducted a search early on Saturday at what neighbors say was the house of a childhood friend of Syed Rizwan Farook, who with his wife killed 14 people in a mass shooting in California on Wednesday. The searched house was located next door to the home in which Farook lived with his family for more than a decade. Federal Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Laura Eimiller confirmed that a federal search warrant had been executed in Riverside overnight, but declined to give the address or comment on the reason for the search.
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| Knife attacker slashes man in London metro "terror incident" | | Sunday, December 06, 2015 2:22 AM | |
|  By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) - A man wielding a knife slashed a man in an east London metro station on Saturday, reportedly screaming "this is for Syria", before police used a stun gun to detain him in what they described as a terrorist incident. A pool of blood near the ticket barriers at the Leytonstone Underground station, about 6 miles (10 km) east of central London, was visible in footage posted on Twitter that also showed the suspect confronting officers at just after 1900 GMT. "We are treating this as a terrorist incident," Richard Walton, who leads the Counter Terrorism Command at London's Metropolitan Police, said in a statement.
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