Category: Terrorism

A car bomb attack in the largest city in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast region killed eight people Friday, hours after authorities detained at least 12 pro-Kurdish legislators for questioning in terror-related probes. (FOX)- Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said two police officers, a technician and five civilians died in the attack near a building used by […]

Al-Qaeda may be planning pre-Election Day attacks on Monday in New York, Texas and Virginia. (FOX)- US intelligence officials have alerted joint terrorism task forces of the threat, whose credibility was still being assessed, sources told The Post. Specific sites that may be targeted in the three states were not mentioned in the threat, the […]

German police detained an asylum seeker suspected of belonging to Islamic State, the federal prosecutor’s office said Thursday. (WSJ)- In the latest evidence of the mounting terror threat posed by the arrival last year of hundreds of thousands of migrants into the country. The 27-year-old man, identified as Syrian, was taken into custody in the […]

A bomb squad late Monday detonated a pair of explosive devices found inside a suburban Denver home after the arrests of two teenage boys a day earlier, authorities said. (FOX)-The items were “dangerous but required additional manipulation or steps to become actual bombs,” Douglas County Sheriff’s Capt. Darren Weekly told reporters gathered in the Castle […]

A former National Guard soldier from Virginia has pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge after admitting that he traveled to Africa and boarded a truck to join the Islamic State group before ultimately bailing out. (FOX)- Twenty-seven-year-old Mohamed Jalloh, of Sterling, was arrested in July after a sting operation in which he discussed launching a […]

So if one thing that the “War on Terror” has taught me, it’s persistence. You have to remain constant. In this latest article, we are warned by Lt. Gen Townsend, that Raqqa is at the epicenter of logistics for the daesh. We know, where they are. We know they’re plotting attacks on the West. Time […]

U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan targeted two Al Qaeda leaders, including one described by a Pentagon official as the group’s top leader in the country, the U.S. military announced late Wednesday. (FOX)- The airstrikes — from unmanned aircraft — unfolded at roughly the same time against two separate compounds last Sunday evening, both in remote areas […]

Police said a murder-suicide by a Kenyan refugee in Virginia Tuesday may be terrorism, although the investigation remains in its early stages. (FOX)- Getachew Fekede opened fire at the FreightCar America factory in Roanoke where he used to work early Tuesday, killing a former co-worker before killing himself. Police said the 53-year-old entered the U.S. […]

German police on Tuesday stormed an accommodation facility for refugees and 12 homes around the country that were believed to house people suspected of financing terrorism. (Reuters)- Police searched residences in the eastern states of Thuringia and Saxony as well as in Bavaria, the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia and in Hamburg, police in Thuringia […]

Spain’s Interior Ministry says police have arrested two imams suspected of promoting the Islamic State armed group on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza. (NewYorkTimes)- A ministry statement said the Moroccan-born imams were arrested Tuesday in the town of Sant Antoni de Portmany. The ministry said they used the Masllid al Fath mosque where they worked […]