Category: Terrorism

Two Iraqi men who allegedly lied their way past U.S. immigration officials and continued their terrorist-related activities after being admitted as refugees are the latest evidence that a flawed screening process is putting Americans at risk, critics say. (FOX)- Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab, 23, moved to the U.S. in 2012, only to return to the […]

A Kansas man was sentenced Tuesday to 15 months in prison for helping a would-be jihadist’s unsuccessful plan to plant what they thought was a bomb at Fort Riley Army base. (FOX)- Alexander Blair, 29, also was sentenced to two years of supervised probation. He was accused of loaning $100 to 21-year-old John T. Booker Jr. to […]

The man accused of setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York, injuring more than 30 people, has been moved from a hospital to a state prison. (FOX)- New Jersey Corrections Department spokesman Matt Schuman says Ahmad Khan Rahimi was transferred to a state facility on Tuesday instead of a county jail for his […]

Three members of a Kansas militia group were charged Friday with plotting to bomb an apartment complex that’s home to Somali immigrants in the western Kansas meatpacking town of Garden City, a thwarted attack prosecutors say was planned for the day after the November election. (FOX)- The arrests were the culmination of an eight-month FBI […]

The man accused of setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York, injuring more than 30 people, pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges he tried to kill police officers before they captured him. (FOX)- Ahmad Khan Rahimi, an Afghan-born U.S. citizen, appeared in the courtroom in Elizabeth, N.J., through a video feed from his hospital bed […]

Authorities say an Arizona woman has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit terrorism. This is a Developing story and we will try to update as it unfolds. (FOX)- Michelle Bastian was taken into custody after agents from the Phoenix office of the FBI and the Arizona Attorney General’s Office served search warrants Wednesday in Chandler and […]

A Tucson man accused of plotting a terrorist attack on a motor vehicle office in metro Phoenix has agreed to a plea deal and is facing at least seven years in an Arizona prison, authorities said Monday. (FOX)- Mahin Khan pleaded guilty to terrorism, conspiracy to commit terrorism and conspiracy to commit misconduct involving weapons, […]

Kurdish militants detonated a car bomb Sunday outside a military checkpoint in southeast Turkey, killing ten soldiers and eight civilians, the prime minister said. Turkey immediately launched a military operation against the rebels in response. (FOX)- Prime Minister Binali Yildirim gave the death toll during a press conference in Istanbul and condemned the attack. “For […]

Two suicide bombers blew themselves up after refusing to surrender to police during an operation in the outskirts of the capital Ankara Saturday, a senior official said. No one else was killed or hurt. (FOX)- Governor Erkan Topaca said police, acting on a tip, launched an operation to catch a man and a woman who […]

Two police officers were stabbed Wednesday by a knife-wielding man in Brussels in an incident that could be terror-related, prosecutors said. (FOX)- The man allegedly stabbed one officer in the neck and the other in the abdomen in the city’s heavily-Muslim Schaerbeek neighborhood on Wednesday and then fled the scene. The assailant was stopped by […]