Category: Terrorism

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted the first U.S. law enforcement officer to face federal terrorism charges, after prosecutors said he bought nearly $250 worth of gift cards for someone he thought was working with the Islamic State. (FOX)- Nicholas Young, a 37-year-old former patrol officer with the D.C. region’s transit police, was charged with attempting to […]

21-year-old Joshua Bagemehl of Sheboygan, Wis., faces a felony charge of “terrorist threats” — accused of planning a school shooting. He was arrested just hours after allegedly purchasing a rifle. (FOX)- According to the criminal complaint, the Sheboygan Police Department received an anonymous Crime Stoppers tip on Monday, December 12th that Bagemehl “was planning a school shooting, […]

A federal judge has denied an Iraqi refugee’s request to have his life sentence on terrorism-related charges vacated. (FOX)- News outlets report that U.S. Magistrate Judge Brent Brennenstuhl wrote in an opinion on Thursday that 29-year-old former Bowling Green resident Mohanad Shareef Hammadi failed to prove his attorney, James Earhart, was ineffective in representing him. […]

French police have detained 11 people suspected of providing logistical support, including arms, to the Tunisian who drove his 19-ton truck into a crowd of Nice revelers on Bastille Day, killing 86. (FOX)- A judicial official says that 10 of the arrests were made Monday morning in the southeastern city and an 11th suspect was […]

Turkey’s police rounded up more than 200 members of a Kurdish political party on Monday as the country mourned the dozens killed in a bombing attack near an Istanbul soccer stadium, state media reported. (FOX)- The state-run Anadolu Agency there were 235 arrests in 11 cities on terrorism-related charges and for spreading terrorist propaganda on social […]

Two girl suicide bombers died when they exploded Sunday in a crowded area near a market in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, injuring 17 people, rescue officials said. (FOX)- Survivor Abubakar Musa said he also saw among the victims the bodies of soldiers, who were guarding a nearby electric power installation. Officials blamed the Boko […]

The United States faces its highest threat from Islamist terrorists since 9/11 and much of that stems from those radicalized at home, according to the House Homeland Security Committee’s December Terror Threat Snapshot released Tuesday. (FOX)- What’s more, the report said, the threat to the United States and Europe will persist in 2017. Throughout 2016, […]

Local and federal law enforcement authorities in Los Angeles have stepped up security on the city’s Metro rail system after the FBI received a tip that a terror attack on a subway station was planned for Tuesday. (FOX)- Although the threat’s credibility had not been confirmed, authorities were taking no chances, Deirdre Fike, assistant director […]

The Islamic State group is likely to carry out new attacks in the European Union in the near future, probably targeting countries that are members of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the extremist organization in Syria and Iraq. (FOX)- EU police agency Europol said in a report published Friday. “Estimates from some intelligence services indicate several […]

Philippine police officials have captured two local sympathizers of the Islamic State group who allegedly tried to detonate a bomb near the U.S. Embassy and prompted authorities to raise a terror alert. (FOX)- National police chief Director-General Ronald dela Rosa said Thursday the two militants, who were separately arrested on Wednesday, initially wanted but failed […]