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A man hands a child to a security guard from Iran's parliament building after an assault of several attackers in Tehran on Wednesday. (Associated Press)

Iran blames terrorist attacks on Saudi Arabia, Donald Trump

Brazen terrorist attacks against Iran's parliament and the mausoleum of the Islamic republic's founding ayatollah escalated tensions across the Middle East on Wednesday, with Iranian officials quickly blaming rival Saudi Arabia, even though the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the strikes that left 12 dead and more than 40 wounded in Tehran.

June 7, 2017
Syrian Democratic Forces have made their way to Raqqa and begun a final battle to retake the city from the Islamic State group. (Reuters)

Raqqa ISIS capital assault by U.S-backed Syrian forces begins

U.S.-backed Syrian forces launched the long-awaited assault on the Islamic State's self-styled capital of Raqqa on Tuesday, marking what the Pentagon says will be the beginning of the end of the terrorist group's hopes for a caliphate in its last major stronghold in the country.

June 6, 2017
FILE - In this Sunday, April 30, 2017, file photo, provided by the Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), shows a fighter from the SDF carrying weapons as he looks toward the northern town of Tabqa, Syria. A U.S. military official says the offensive against the Islamic State group's de facto capital, Raqqa "will be long and difficult." Lt. Gen. Steve Townsend, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, says the assault by the Syrian Democratic Forces will deliver a decisive blow to the idea of IS "as a physical caliphate." The Kurdish-led force launched an offensive to capture Raqqa on Tuesday.(Syrian Democratic Forces, via AP, File)

Raqqa ISIS capital assault by U.S-backed forces begins

U.S.-backed forces in Syria began Tuesday the long-awaited assault on Islamic State's self-styled capital of Raqqa, a fight that could mark the beginning of the end of the terror group's so-called caliphate in the Mideast.

June 6, 2017
Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar is the regional nerve center for the air war against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria. (Associated Press/File)

Al Udeid Air Base open to U.S. despite Qatar’s rift with neighbors

Pentagon officials insisted Monday that the clash between Qatar and its Arab neighbors will not affect operations at Al Udeid Air Base, but the row raised the prospect that the U.S. could be forced to relocate or scale back its main regional hub for the air war against the Islamic State and the de facto Middle East operational center for U.S. Central Command.

June 5, 2017
Pakistani Ambassador Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said his country will have plenty of economic opportunity in coming years that could be at risk from violence in neighboring Afghanistan. (Associated Press/File)

Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, Pakistan’s ambassador, awaits Trump’s Afghanistan policy

NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: Pakistan's military has swept terrorist groups from the nation's once-lawless tribal areas, but the gains could be put at risk if the security situation across the border in Afghanistan is not brought under control, Islamabad's diplomat in Washington said, stressing that his nation is waiting for the Trump administration to clarify its strategy for the Afghanistan conflict.

June 4, 2017
In this photo taken on Tuesday May 23, 2017, provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group, the Hammurabi's Justice News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a U.S.-backed anti-government Syrian fighter form Maghaweer al-Thawra stands on a vehicle with heavy automatic machine gun, left, next of an American soldier who also stands on his armored vehicle, right, as they take their position at the Syrian-Iraqi crossing border point of At Tanf, south Syria. (Hammurabi's Justice News via AP) ** FILE **

Iranian-backed forces amassing near U.S. training base in Syria

Hundreds of Iranian-backed militiamen, fighting alongside government troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad, are amassing near a U.S.-training base located near the country's border with Iraq, the Defense Department confirmed Tuesday.

May 30, 2017
While Western authorities have been focused on jihadi attacks in places like Manchester, England, intelligence analysts warn that Islamic State may be taking advantage of largely lawless areas in Southeast Asia as terror staging grounds. (Associated Press)

ISIS moves into Southeast Asia

Western powers and media outlets convulsed in shock at last week's horrific suicide attack on a pop concert in Britain, but little attention was paid to a surge of violence by the Islamic State on the other side of the world -- specifically in the Philippines and Indonesia.

May 28, 2017
Secretary of Defense James Mattis walks into Michie Stadium to give the commencement address, Saturday, May 27, 2017, in West Point, N.Y. Nine Hundred and thirty six cadets received their diplomas, most of whom will be commissioned as second lieutenants in the army. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

James Mattis: New era of protracted, small wars with extremists

The U.S. and its military allies are facing a new "era" in global conflict defined by protracted, small wars with extremist militant groups, just as Islamic State is on the verge of defeat in Iraq and Syria, Defense Secretary James Mattis said Sunday.

May 28, 2017
President Trump meets with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, right, at the Royal Palace on Wednesday in Brussels. The surge in Taliban violence and attacks by the Islamic State in Afghanistan will be Mr. Trump's focus when he visits NATO headquarters. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump to visit NATO headquarters

The surge in Taliban violence and attacks by the Islamic State in Afghanistan will be at the center of President Trump's focus when he visits NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday.

May 24, 2017
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, 2nd right, and Major General Ben Bathhurst, General Officer Commanding London District, right, meet soldiers and police officers on deployment in the Palace of Westminster, London, after Scotland Yard announced armed troops will be deployed to guard "key locations" such as Buckingham Palace, Downing Street, the Palace of Westminster and embassies Wednesday May 24, 2017. Security has been increased in reaction to Monday's explosion in Manchester which killed more than 20 .(Victoria Jones/PA via AP)

Theresa May raises U.K. terror threat level

With British officials still uncertain Tuesday whether the suicide bomber who claimed 22 lives in Manchester a day earlier acted alone, Prime Minister Theresa May warned a stunned and grieving nation that the United Kingdom's terrorism threat level was being raised to "critical" and that "a further attack may be imminent."

May 23, 2017