We can confirm that our detained U.S. citizens have been released and that those who wished to depart Iran have left

The nuclear agreement "accelerated" the prisoner swap

were released, along with four other Iranians held in other parts of the U.S., Mechanich's attorney

concluded Tehran was in compliance with the deal governing its nuclear program.

U.S. federal officials said they will not comment on the names of anyone who is part of the agreement until after the four Americans are in U.S. custody

seven Iranian men walked free from detention in the United States after being pardoned and released

he freed prisoners are expected to be transported to a U.S. military hospital in Germany for medical evaluation

Iranian officials to "continue cooperating with the United States to determine the whereabouts of Robert Levinson,

FBI agent and CIA contractor, went missing in Iran in 2007.

men had been involved in exporting products and services to Iran in violation of trade sanctions against the country.

agreed to drop charges against 14 other Iranians whose extradition to the United States seemed unlikely

onvicted of espionage and sentenced to death

served with the Marines in Iraq, was seized while visiting relatives in Tehran in August 2011

lient was eligible for probation under Iranian law, which permits releases for certain inmates who have served at least a third of their sentences

onvicted of aiding a hostile country — meaning the United States

repeatedly demanded that Iran release them, an issue that has festered despite diplomatic advances made in other areas, most notably the multinational agreement on the Iranian nuclear program that could take effect this month.

imprisoned in July 2014 and convicted in October on charges that included spying

harges that included subverting national security

permitted an extended year-end visit with him in prison and more time for phone conversations

innocent of any wrongdoing, have described his prosecution and imprisonment as a Kafkaesque farce

They have targeted the whole of Turkey and the whole world."

Syria has been embroiled in a civil war for nearly five years -- a conflict that, according to the United Nations, has cost more than 250,000 lives, spurred more than half the country's 17 million residents to flee and caused humanitarian crises for those left behind, as illustrated by the hundreds starving in the siege of Madaya.

ISIS has been behind many of the worst atrocities there

including allowing the United States to launch strikes from Incirlik Air Base

ISIS has responded by singling out Turkey as a primary target

ISIS, which has enemies everywhere and has proven willing to strike those who don't subscribe to its twisted, hard-line version of Sharia law.

It's seen as a place where you have a mesh of different entities. It's a real melting pot."

Its military cooperation with the United States and other NATO nations in particular has angered ISIS

Tuesday's blast -- if it's confirmed to be the terror group's work -- ups the ante for Ankara, forcing it to step up its anti-ISIS fight even more

An attack like this is designed to create economic, political and social consequences,

F.B.I. still believed that the couple had been inspired by foreign extremist groups but that it had not found evidence the husband and wife team was ordered to attack by the Islamic State or any other group.

two assault rifles used in last week’s attack on county public health workers in San Bernardino, has told the authorities that in 2012 he and Mr. Farook had plans for an attack at that time

Because he provided two of the four weapons used by the attackers, some investigators have questioned his credibility, thinking that he might exaggerate what he knows about the couple to win favor with the authorities

Mr. Marquez is said to have mental health issues

he checked himself into a mental health facility in California

had radicalized at least as far back as two years ago.

investigation to date shows that they were radicalized before they started courting or dating each other online.”

the couple may have decided to commit terrorism in the name of the Islamic State late in the planning process

if in the context or in the process of the review we find things that we can do, we’re not going to wait for the review to be complete before we make the changes.”

“we’re going to keep an open mind about the program going forward and make whatever changes we need to make.”

spent the previous three or so years living with her mother at the family home in the southern Pakistani city of Multan, where she obtained a degree in pharmacology from the city’s largest university, and studied part-time at an Islamic center for women that teaches a literalist version of the Quran.

the couple had not finished building at least some of the dozen pipe bombs that were found in their home, leading investigators to believe they had a much larger attack planned for the future

While officials do not believe these people were involved in the massacre, the connections have suggested to investigators that Mr. Farook was associating with like-minded people.

Trump pinned the fierce backlash that followed his call for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States"

If they don't treat me with a certain amount of decorum and respect

But if things are true, it would bother me. But if it's so false, and honestly I don't hear it often."

"We have a president who is a stupid person," Trump said,

"Prime Minister Netanyahu rejects Donald Trump's recent remarks about Muslims," the office said in a statement.

Trump replied with a firm no.

"I am the least racist person that you have ever met," he said.

As long as there is a training ground for ISIS on the other side of our border we will continue to have this problem, not only Turkey but Europe and U.S

Officials quickly blamed ISIS for the attack.

We have a free society ... but there are people who want us harmed,

No group claimed responsibility for the blast, yet Davutoglu pinned blame on ISIS, which has entrenched itself in neighboring Syria and Iraq.

If Tuesday's blast is confirmed to be the work of the terrorist group, that will force Ankara to step up its anti-ISIS fight

An attack like this is designed to create economic, political and social consequences,"

More than half the country's 17 million residents have fled

has begun allowing the United States to launch strikes from Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey

Those explosions killed as many as 100 people and injured more than 240 others.

who say he is underplaying the threat from radical Islamist groups such as ISIS.

technological advances and economic dislocation has left many Americans fearful of the future and anxious as social structures

urged them not to fall prey to the periodic temptation

Each time, there have been those who told us to fear the future; who claimed we could slam the brakes on change, promising to restore past glory if we just got some group or idea that was threatening America under control,

because we saw opportunity where others saw only peril -- we emerged stronger and better than before

a foreign policy crisis raging in the Middle East after Iran seized 10 U.S. sailors exemplified the struggles in which Obama has had to impose U.S. authority in an increasingly chaotic world that has challenged his core mission of ending costly American wars abroad

defended the legacy-building deal reached to halt Iran's nuclear weapons program.

efended his domestic record, claiming credit for 14 million new jobs and a halving of the unemployment rate. He said those who claimed the economy was in decline are "peddling fiction."

old conservatives who deny climate change to "have at it" because they were defying the world.

It won't deliver the economy we want, or the security we want, but most of all, it contradicts everything that makes us the envy of the world

It doesn't work if we think the people who disagree with us are all motivated by malice, or that our political opponents are unpatriotic,

It's one of the few regrets of my presidency --  that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better.

They do not threaten our national existence.

lawmakers immediately seized on the incident to charge that Obama has emboldened Iran's aggressive behavior

Iran's provocations were the result of having a "weak president"

ainted an unflattering picture of Obama's America and said the nation would soon have a chance to turn the page in remarks which also seemed to be a repudiation of Trump

this president appears either unwilling or unable to deal with it."

No one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws, and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country.

a song referring to the march on January 11 last year, in which more than 1 million people joined world leaders to march in solidarity

Hollande also made an unannounced visit to the Grand Mosque of Paris

A state of emergency is still in place in France, and people there are still struggling to come to terms with the horrendous events of last year.

The French are hesitating between anger and fear

It's very difficult for the Parisians, because they know they have been touched in the heart, but at the same time they would like their lives to go on like before -- but they also know that is not possible

ISIS claimed responsibility.

Paris, already on edge, faced a fresh scare Thursday as police shot dead a knife-wielding man on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks

"I am here to show my support and to say that we must continue to live," he told CNN.

separated Muslims and shot Christians to death

dead students lay in rows, others shot in the back of the head.

students are still haunted by the massacre and one wonders if it is not too soon for classes to restart.

attending early morning prayers when Al Shabaab militants threw a grenade into the room and sprayed the room with bullets

The Islamist extremist group is based in Somalia, but it hasn't confined its terrorism to the nation that shares a border with Kenya

And while she received money from the government and the college, she is still struggling to pay medical bills along with her school fees at her new university

"Those of us who lived. We still have not healed," she says.

Across the country, there have been efforts to improve school security

no escaping the atmosphere of fear the attacks have created

murder 148 people, the worst terrorist attack in Kenya since the 1998 embassy bombings.

militants have vowed to continue with attacks until Kenya withdraws troops from neighboring Somalia, where they are helping fight the terror group.

If we closed the school then Al Shabaab would have won because they would have shut down a center of higher learning,"

U.S. plans to strike more financial targets like this one to take away ISIS's ability to function as a state-like entity.

U.S. considers the Mosul strike extremely sensitive, as the building is in an area where civilians are also located, and there was a significant risk of civilian casualties.

U.S. aircraft and drones watched the site for days trying to determine when the fewest number of civilians would be in the area

U.S. commanders had been willing to consider up to 50 civilian casualties from the airstrike due to the importance of the target

five to seven people were killed.

U.S. has said it will assess all targets on a case-by-case basis and may be more willing to tolerate civilians casualties for more significant targets

It's rare for Obama to meet with his top military brass and homeland security experts outside the White House Situation Room;

Obama said the visit was part of an ongoing effort to "review and constantly strengthen" U.S. military plans against ISIS.

the group's land-grab was "contained" and that the U.S. homeland has "never been more protected."

. Obama delivered a rare primetime address to update the nation on his anti-ISIS strategy last Sunday, and on Thursday will receive a briefing at the National Counterterrorism Center, outside Washington, on the latest intelligence about holiday threats.

U.S. has also ramped up intelligence gathering in partnership with European allies, an effort that doesn't lend itself to grand displays of military strength that could help assuage fears in the U.S

she has had to contend with growing anti-Muslim sentiment, adjusting her routines to avoid attacks and worrying about how she appears to the rest of society

“I feel like the past two months have probably been the hardest of my life.”

Ms. Jamal is part of a generation of Muslim Americans who have grown up amid the fight against terrorism, in an America in which anti-Muslim hostility, by many measures, has been historically high.

complexities and pressure have left many young Muslims feeling isolated and alienated, if not unwelcome in their own country.

challenges have only multiplied in the past year as violent events around the world have fueled or reaffirmed anti-Muslim feelings in the United States and elsewhere

that since the Sept. 11 attacks, young Muslims in the United States have dealt with “chronic trauma” from the constant stress of anti-Muslim sentiment

“in the next few years we will realize how harmful and detrimental that’s going to be.”

“We’re talking about war, we’re talking about feminism, we’re talking about all this stuff,”

“Being exiled from the moral community you thought you were a part of is really stunning,”

“If a Muslim hasn’t been called a terrorist in middle school, lower school or high school, then they’re probably in a really great school — and I’m happy for them!” Ms. Jamal said.

“Our aspirations are the same as any other American or teenager or youth. It feels like they’re trying to shoot down our dreams and aspirations simply because we practice a different religion.”

“I’d tell people I was Mediterranean and they’d guess Italian or Greek and I wouldn’t correct them.”

“I found that it was much easier to get to know others if I totally accepted my religious and cultural identity.” Photo

she has redoubled her conviction to publicly embrace the complexities of her identity

“My brother said he’s never wanted to identify more as an Arab and a Muslim.

Muslim activists are building coalitions with other social action movements — like Black Lives Matter — to address shared grievances of inequality and prejudice

equated the feelings of shock and exclusion to those experienced by Japanese youths after their internment in the United States during World War II

“I don’t think normal teenagers are going to be as politicized at such an early age as we are.”

“Social media is such a hard place to get through,” Ms. Kawas said. “But it is also a place where we come to have self-awareness.”

“You feel like the whole world is against you,” she continued. “It’s exhausting.”

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evidence indicates that Robertson did fire his .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun in the area.

Some indicate that he was armed. ... And then there were others that indicated not only was he armed, but had actually discharged the firearm several times."

man fired six to seven rounds as he was walking through a residential area

Those 911 calls depict different behaviors of the suspect,"

Robertson turned his body with the gun toward the deputies, who opened fire and killed Robertson.

one deputy fired 17 shots, and another fired 16.

fatal deputy-involved shooting gets independent investigations from the local district attorney's office and the county coroner

"This is a warning, this is only the beginning," the attacker said, according to a statement from Bobigny district prosecutor's office.

France remains under a state of emergency following last month's Islamist extremists attacks that left 130 people dead in Paris.

ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks

Francois Hollande vowed to destroy the terror group and intensify an international military campaign against ISIS territory in Syria and Iraq.

police said both incidents are now classified as hate crimes

they found what looked like a grenade and evacuated the area. But the object turned out to be a fake plastic grenade

e police believe both crimes took place overnight.

"Investigators will work to identify the person or group responsible, the motivation and whether religious bias was a factor," the FBI said.

The FBI is committed to ensure law-abiding citizens are protected and to deter those who would threaten them."

the department has communicating more closely with local Islamic centers.

And he was a legacy al Qaeda member."

announcement came on the same day that the U.S. Treasury Department detailed its efforts with other countries to stop the flow of money to ISIS

"Killing him and his predecessors exhausts the knowledge and talent needed to coordinate funding within the organization,

Abu Maryam, described as an "enforcer and senior leader of their extortion network;"

announced the recent killings of two other prominent ISIS figures

Abu Rahman al-Tunisi, who was believed to be responsible for coordinating the movement of information, people and weapons.

NCLB emphasized standardized testing and a top-down approach to education. Under that law, the federal government designed an accountability system to evaluate states' schools.

gave states waivers that allowed them to avoid NCLB's strictest consequences in exchange for agreeing to implement policies favored by the White House. ESSA does away with this system. 

new law a "step in the right direction," but noted that "now the hard work begins."

"Laws are only as good as the implementation," Obama said.

his team was looking for ways to tighten gun laws without a vote in Congress

exploring closing the so-called "gun show loophole"

spike in anti-Muslim incidents across the United States in recent weeks that can be linked to last week’s mass shooting in California and the inflammatory rhetoric of Donald Trump

created an atmosphere ripe for these types of stereotypes and incidents,”

“I have never seen such fear and apprehension in the Muslim community, even after 9/11.”

racked more than three dozen incidents since the Nov. 13 terror attacks in Paris that left 130 dead.

spike began with the Paris attacks and has intensified with what happened in San Bernardino and now with what Donald Trump is proposing

pace of the incidents appears to have picked up since the Dec. 2 shooting in San Bernardino that killed 14 people and injured 21 others.

Rick Santorum who questioned whether the U.S. Constitution protected Islam

“After 9/11 there were hate crimes on the edges of society, but now it’s in the mainstream with the leading Republican presidential candidate saying Muslims are not wanted in America.”

police have stepped up patrols around houses of worship after a severed pig’s head was left outside the Al Aqsa Islamic Society

Florida man was arrested after authorities said he vandalized the Islamic Center

someone claiming to be a former Marine left a threatening voicemail message on the mosque’s answering machine on Saturday

man said he “killed a lot of Muslims” and, using expletives, said he would decapitate Muslims.

I kill Muslims,” before punching him in his left eye.

range in age from 18 to 27

all share the same surname, Sleiman, suggesting that they are related.

they had not admitted to supporting the Islamic State in their interrogations.

About 34 Arab citizens of Israel have been arrested over the last year on suspicion of activities related to the Islamic State

said that there had been a slight increase in the number of Israeli citizens suspected of Islamic State-related activity in 2015 compared with 2014

accused of having trained for battle by slaughtering sheep and riding horses at a local farm

Palestinian citizens of Israel, about a fifth of the country’s population, have rarely participated in organized armed attacks.

some might be attracted because of longstanding grievances about discrimination in Israel.

most recent arrests suggested the first plot to carry out an Islamic State-inspired attack in Israel.

gradually heading toward people who will try to do something like that in the name of the Islamic State, similar to the attack in San Bernardino,

described the suspects as “wannabes who have access to guns.”

been “holding suspicious meetings and conducting weapons training.

suspects had obtained a Russian SKS semiautomatic rifle and a Carl Gustaf, a Swedish submachine gun.

“He used to say he was against ISIS and against terrorism.”