Syria

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A young man convicted of trying to join the Islamic State group will remain in custody until a judge decides whether he violated probation by watching a documentary on terrorism.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is emerging from the shadows of the Trump administration with a leading public role in shaping and explaining the U.S. missile strikes in Syria. The former Exxon Mobil CEO is set for an even more high-profile mission, heading to Moscow under the twin clouds of Russia's alleged U...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has handed down a 35-year prison term for the last of nine Minnesota men sentenced for plotting to travel to Syria to fight for the Islamic State group.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Closing arguments are scheduled to begin Tuesday in the trial of three Minnesota men accused of plotting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A survivor of the 2007 Minnesota bridge collapse that killed 13 people and injured 145 is now believed to be in Syria with the Islamic State group.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man on trial for plotting to go to Syria to join the Islamic State group is testifying in his own defense.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal prosecutor says three Minnesota men accused of plotting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group were deeply committed to their cause and undeterred by their failures.

BEIRUT (AP) — A wave of nighttime airstrikes hit a hospital in Syria supported by Doctors Without Borders in the rebel-held part of the contested city of Aleppo, killing at least 27 people.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Another Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State group.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors say a judge overseeing terrorism cases in Minnesota is among those who were threatened over Twitter last year.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Russia agreed Monday on a new cease-fire for Syria that will take effect Saturday, U.S. officials said, even as major questions over enforcing and responding to violations of the truce were left unresolved.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota is expected to get more refugees in 2016 than it has in any year in the past decade.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has called Turkey's decision to down a Russian warplane near the Syria border a "stab in the back."

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. drone strike targeted a vehicle in Syria believed to be transporting the masked Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John," U.S. officials said, but it was still unclear whether the strike killed the British man who appears in several videos depicting the beheadings of Western hostages.