Mes: septiembre 2019

(AP) SOFIA, Bulgaria – A sophisticated group of conspirators were involved in the suicide bombing that killed five Israelis and a Bulgarian, and they spent at least a month in Bulgaria before the attack, the country’s prime minister said Tuesday. Boiko Borisov’s comments confirmed suspicions that the suicide attacker who targeted a bus filled with Israeli vacationers did not act alone. However, the prime minister did not give many details — including how many people were believed to have been involved in the Wednesday attack. He also declined to back up Israel’s claims that Iran and militant group Hezbollah played roles Israeli PM: “Unquestionable” that Iran is behind Bulgaria attackFunerals for Israelis killed in Bulgaria bombingBulgarian bus bomber dressed to blend in Those involved used “leased vehicles, they moved in different cities so as not to be seen together, and no two of them can be seen in one place on any security camera,” Borisov said alongside visiting White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan. He described the people behind the blast “exceptionally skilled” and said they operated under “strict conspiracy rules.” The prime minister also said DNA samples from the suicide bomber have been shared with all partner security services, but no match has been found in their databases. “There was absolutely no chance of preventing such act of violence,” Borisov insisted. “We could have only detected it by...

(CBS/AP) BAGHDAD – Syrian President Bashar Assad has agreed to a new U.N.-brokered peace plan focusing on containing the most violent areas of the country, then expanding to the entire nation, international envoy Kofi Annan said Tuesday. At a news conference in Iran, Annan said the plan still must be presented to the opposition. But he said Assad suggested trying to calm specific areas a day earlier during talks in the Syrian capital aimed at ending the violence, which activists say has killed more than 17,000 people since March 2011. “(Assad) made a suggestion of building an approach from the ground up in some of the districts where we have extreme violence — to try and contain the violence in those districts and, step by step, build up and end the violence across the country,” Annan told reporters in Iran, his first step on a tour of Syria’s staunchest allies. Annan: Iran must be “part of the solution” to Syria crisisFor Syria rebels, Assad draws line in the sandKofi Annan holds talks with Syria’s Assad More in After the Arab Spring Annan later visited Iraq and met Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to discuss ways to end the 16 months of bloodshed. The conflict in Syria has defied every international attempt to bring peace, including an earlier effort by Annan, and there was no sign that the plan the U.N.-Arab...