Category: Terrorism

 A Taliban official says a suspected U.S. drone strike the previous day killed a top commander of the militant Haqqani network — the man who in 2014 accompanied U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl when he was handed over to U.S. authorities. (FOX)- The Taliban official identified the man as Qari Abdullah, saying he died in […]

Afghan officials say at least 11 police officers have been shot and killed by a fellow policeman at a checkpoint in the southern Helmand province. (FOX)- Omer Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor, says the policeman turned his rifle on his colleagues and killed them late Monday night in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital. Zwak […]

What’s that old adage about “fighting a war on two fronts”? ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko-Haram, Taliban, how many fronts are we willing, or even able for that matter, to fight on? It is disheartening to think that this fighting continues globally against evil ideals. We have lost how many brothers and sisters to this evil? How […]

A German sailor who had survived two months as a hostage of Somali pirates nearly a decade ago was beheaded in the Philippines by Islamic terrorists, a short video released Monday showed, after a deadline to pay the man’s ransom passed. (FOX)- Jurgen Gustav Kantner’s beheading was the first murder of a hostage by the […]

At least 10 police officers and the wife of a police commander were killed in an ambush by Islamic States group militants in northern Zawzjan province, a provincial official said. (FOX)- Mohammad Reza Ghafori, spokesman for the Zawzjan provincial governor, said Saturday that the police officers were ambushed Friday as they were coming out of […]

An Army veteran has been charged with plotting what he believed would be a terrorist attack in Kansas City, federal authorities said Tuesday.  (FOX)- Robert Lorenzo Hester Jr., 25, was arrested Friday and is charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. The criminal complaint was released after Hester made his initial […]

Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind firebrand Islamist cleric behind the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, has died in federal prison, Fox News has learned. He was 78. (FOX)- Abdel-Rahman, an Egyptian radical who maintained a global following even while imprisoned for more than two decades, died Saturday morning at Butner Federal Medical Center in […]

The only person criminally charged in connection with the 2015 San Bernardino terror attack pleaded guilty Thursday to providing the high-powered rifles that were used to kill 14 people. (FOX)- Enrique Marquez Jr., 25, appeared in federal court in Riverside, Calif., after signing a plea agreement with prosecutors. He was accused of providing husband-and-wife attackers […]

Florida man accused of planning to bomb Target stores to lower company’s stock (FOX)- A Florida man is accused of planning to bomb Target stores along the East Coast in an attempt to buy cheap stock in the company, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Mark Charles Barnett, 48, of Ocala, was charged with possession or possession […]

A lawyer for a man accused of setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York City wants charges related to a shootout dismissed. I get that people are entitled to a fair and unbiased trial. That’s part of what makes our country great. However I find it difficult to give this jihadi piece of […]