Category: Terrorism

The lone American confirmed to have been injured in a New Year’s terror attack on an Istanbul nightclub was saved by his cell phone, his brother told local media Monday. (FOX)- William Jacob Raak, 35, of Chadds Ford, Pa., was one of an estimated 600 people partying inside the Reina nightclub early on New Year’s […]

Police on Sunday were hunting a Santa Claus-clad killer who opened fire at a nightclub in Istanbul during New Year’s celebrations, killing at least 39 people and wounding nearly 70 others, according to Istanbul’s governor and Turkey’s state-run news agency. (FOX)- Gov. Vasip Sahin said the attacker, armed with a long-barreled weapon, killed a policeman […]

An armed trucker whose hours-long standoff at a Missouri rest stop snarled a freeway’s traffic for miles heading into the holiday weekend has been charged with making a terrorist threat. (FOX)- Prosecutors in Platte County charged 25-year-old Khurshed Haydarov of Philadelphia with the felony following last Friday’s disturbance along Interstate 29 north of Kansas City. […]

New York City’s iconic New Year’s Eve celebration will be surrounded by sanitation vehicles to stop truck-driving attackers like those in Germany and France. (FOX)- The 65 garbage collection and sand trucks along Times Square’s perimeter are meant to stop would-be assailants from plowing trucks into the crowd of 1 million people. New York Police […]

The U.S. military says its airstrikes have killed 28 al-Qaida militants in Yemen since September. (FOX)- Central Command said in a statement Thursday that the airstrikes took place between Sept. 23 and Dec. 13. Army Maj. Josh T. Jacques, a spokesman, said the strikes “pressure the terrorist network and hinder their ability to attack the […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation says it’s assisting a Tampa Bay area law enforcement agency in the potential terrorism activity. (FOX)- A 21-year-old man who was arrested after his father was taken to a hospital due to suspicious fumes in the family home. Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said Thursday there is no indication that […]

 Police say that two Kosovo-born brothers have been detained on suspicion that they were planning an attack on a shopping mall in western Germany. (FOX)- Police said that the men, ages 28 and 31, were detained in Duisburg in the industrial Ruhr region in the early hours of Friday. Authorities suspect that they may have […]

An Afghan official says gunmen on a motorbike opened fire at the house of a former Taliban leader in the capital, killing at least one person. (FOX)- Fraidoon Obaidi, the head of the Kabul police’s criminal investigation department, says the two gunmen attacked Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef’s house late Friday, but he was not there. […]

Tunisia’s Interior Ministry  says police have arrested the nephew of Anis Amri — the Berlin market attack suspect — his nephew and two others suspected of belonging to the same extremist network. (FOX)- The ministry says in a statement that Amri — suspected of driving a truck into a Christmas market crowd in Berlin, killing 12 and injuring 56 — had sent […]

‘Pro-Qaddafi’ hijackers threaten to blow up Libyan plane diverted to Malta (FOX)- Two hijackers diverted a Libyan commercial plane to Malta on Friday and threatened to blow it up with hand grenades, Maltese authorities and state media said. The Malta airport authority said all emergency teams had been dispatched to the site of what it […]