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Travelers and airport workers are evacuated out of the terminal after airport shooting at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida. Andrew Innerarity, Reuters

Gunman Targets Passengers in U.S. Airport

by Mounir al-Manawri | Jan 7, 2017 | World

Washington – At least five people have been killed in an attack at Fort Lauderdale airport and eight were injured by a gunman on Friday. Fort Lauderdale Airport is situated around 21 miles north of Miami. It is the second largest airport in South Florida,...

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Signs were piled up in a Hillary Clinton campaign office in Columbia, S.C., before that state’s primary. Credit Travis Dove for The New York Times

After U.S. Election Surprise, Marketers Rethink How to Study Consumers

by Sapna Maheshwari | Nov 16, 2016 | Business

New York- The presidential race was not far from the minds of executives from America’s biggest brands and advertising agencies last month in Orlando, Fla., at the annual conference held by the Association of National Advertisers. The industry leaders had traveled...

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People attend a memorial service on June 19, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP

Why Do Extremists Commit Terrorist Acts?

by Peter Bergen | Jun 20, 2016 | Opinion

The New York Times By Peter Bergen After a terrorist attack like the one in Florida last Sunday, one of the first questions people always ask is: Why? Why would someone take the lives of innocent civilians who are total strangers? That is a question to which I have...

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Mourners lay flowers during a vigil in reaction to the mass shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida,in New York on June 12, 2016. Bryan R. Smith / AFP

ISIS Claims Orlando Shooting as Families, Friends Wait Anxiously for News

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 13, 2016 | World

ISIS on Monday claimed responsibility for a shooting that killed 50 people at a nightclub in the U.S. city of Orlando, saying in a radio bulletin that it was carried out by “one of the soldiers of the caliphate.” “Allah allowed Omar Mateen, one of the...

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Mourners pay tribute to the victims of the Orlando shooting during a memorial service in San Diego, California on June 12, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / Sandy Huffaker

Florida Nightclub Massacre … Biggest in U.S. History

by Mohammed Ali Saleh | Jun 13, 2016 | World

Washington-In the biggest massacre in the history of the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced on Sunday that Omar Mateen, a U.S. citizen of Afghan descent, had carried out the attack at the gay nightclub in Florida, leaving at least 50 people...