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"...leaving one ‘BLINDED IN ONE EYE’ and 4 others horrifically injured as they waited for a train. —- Young group were standing at Ockendon station, Essex, when attacked — Doused in corrosive liquid by group of Muslim assailants who then fled — One of the teenagers left blind in one eye while a second badly burned —Three others also hurt but released from hospital with minor injuries

In the latest terror attack linked to the Islamic State, at least 29 people were killed when a suicide bomber attacked a football stadium south of Baghdad Friday, Iraqi security officials told The Associated Press. Nearly 60 other people were reported hurt. Fox News has learned ISIS immediately claimed responsibility for the blast. The terror group also said it was behind the bombings in Belgium Tuesday, which killed 31 people and wounded 270 others.

BAGHDAD, Iraq In America, six-year-olds are usually in first grade. In Iraq, some are being recruited by militias. That's what U-S soldiers say is going on in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood, the stronghold of a radical cleric. The militias are assembling gangs of as many as 100 children, some as young as six or seven. Their mission: to throw gasoline bombs and stones at passing U-S convoys. The hope is that the troops will be lured into sniper ambushes. The soldiers say they've seen young men with bandanas covering their faces, talking to kids before such incidents. Sometimes the children...

An Afghan who faced the death penalty in his homeland for converting from Islam to Christianity said Thursday he was certain he would have been killed had he stayed there, and he thanked Pope Benedict XVI for intervening on his behalf."In Kabul, they would have killed me, I'm sure of it," said Abdul Rahman, who was spirited out of Afghanistan to a secret location in Italy. "If you are not a Muslim in an Islamic country like mine, they kill you. There are no doubts."He said his case was to serve as an example "to others who dared rebel."Rahman's comments,...