Category: Terrorism

Anti-terror authorities in France arrested seven people who had allegedly been planning a potential attack, the interior minister said Monday. (FOX)- The suspects were arrested in Strasbourg and Marseille over the weekend. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that six of the seven men were not on intelligence services’ radar. He added that the arrests prevented […]

An Iran-backed terrorist group operating in Syria is parading around the war-torn country in U.S.-made armored vehicles affixed with antiaircraft guns. (FOX)- One of the most frightening aspects is how U.S. officials and analysts can’t agree on how the extremists got their hands on the American war machines. A popular theory quickly emerged that Hezbollah […]

A Belgian police station apparently was so cluttered that investigators didn’t realize a missing phone that belonged to one of the Paris suicide bombers was hiding under a giant pile of paperwork, local media reported Tuesday. (FOX)- The phone belonged to 31-year-old Brahim Abdeslam, who killed himself in the massacre in November 2015, the BBC reported. […]

ISIS is offering a detailed how-to on using trucks as weapons of mass destruction — noting that the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade would be an “excellent target.’’ (FOX)- The terror group, in the latest edition of its new English-language magazine Rumiyah, said anyone behind the wheel can inflict as much as, or more damage than, […]

The man accused of setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York has been brought to Manhattan to face federal terrorism charges. (FOX)- The office of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara says Ahmed Khan Rahimi was awaiting a court appearance Thursday. He previously pleaded not guilty in New Jersey to charges related to a shootout […]

A hand grenade attack outside the French Embassy in central Athens lightly wounded a policeman early Thursday, police said, days before U.S. President Barack Obama is due to visit the Greek capital. (FOX)- Authorities said the policeman, who had been on guard outside the embassy, was wounded when unknown assailants threw a hand grenade outside […]

French investigators have identified the alleged ISIS “coordinator” of the Paris and Brussels terror attacks. (FOX)- Oussama Atar, a 32-year-old Syrian-based extremist of dual Belgian and Moroccan nationality, was already a suspect in the Brussels attack in March but has now been linked to the attacks in Paris last year. A source told AFP: “He’s […]

The FBI and New York Police Department say they are assessing the credibility of information they received of a possible al-Qaida terror attack against the U.S. on the eve of Election Day. (FOX)- Officials say Friday that counterterrorism investigators are reviewing the information that mentioned New York, Texas and Virginia as potential targets. It wasn’t […]

A judge on Friday sentenced an 18-year-old Arizona man to eight years in prison for terrorism convictions stemming from a plot to attack a motor vehicle office in metro Phoenix. (FOX)- Mahin Khan of Tucson previously pleaded guilty to terrorism, conspiracy to commit terrorism, and conspiracy to commit misconduct involving weapons. His lawyers sought a […]

The Defense Department says an airstrike in Afghanistan last month killed Al Qaeda’s top leader in the eastern part of the country. (FOX)- Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook has issued a written statement saying a precision strike conducted by the U.S. military on Oct. 23 in Kunar, Afghanistan, killed Faruq al-Qatani. Cook says al-Qatani was […]