Terrorism

At least three people died and 48 others were injured in a suicide car bomb attack on a police headquarters in Iran’s southeast on Thursday, state media reported. Television also reported shooting in the area, located in the region of Sistan-Baluchestan, which is home to a Sunni Muslim minority in …

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An Israeli-American man was sentenced to 10 years in prison in Israel on Thursday for making about 2,000 hoax bomb threats that forced evacuations of U.S. Jewish community centers and planes to make emergency landings. The threats, by phone and email were made in 2016 and 2017, and raised concern …

Turkey takes a positive view of a U.S. move to offer rewards for information on three members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, adding it expected to see concrete steps in the fight against the militia. The United States offered the rewards on …

Gunmen killed at least seven people and wounded 14 others in an attack on a bus driving toward a Coptic Christian monastery in Egypt on Friday, the Archbishop in Minya said No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack on people traveling to St. Samuel the Confessor monastery in Minya, …

Witnesses described a blast on the central Habib Bourguiba avenue where hundreds of police later cordoned off an area near the capital’s landmark Municipal Theatre and the French embassy. “I was in front of the theater and heard a huge explosion,” witness Mohamed Ekbal bin Rajib told Reuters. Ambulances could …

Cesar Sayoc’s political inclinations were passionately displayed for everyone to see. His social media accounts and the windows of his white van were plastered with messages supporting the President, and provocative photos and memes attacking liberals. Facebook video showed him in a MAGA hat at Trump rally in 2016. He …

Authorities have intercepted devices intended for the White House, former President Barack Obama and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. A suspicious package containing a pipe bomb that was addressed to the White House was intercepted at Joint Base Bolling in Washington, DC, a law enforcement official told CNN Wednesday, …

hree Saudi men accused of terrorism were killed on Wednesday after they resisted arrest in the eastern region of Qatif, a Saudi security spokesman said on Thursday. Three members of the Saudi security forces suffered light injuries, he said. The three killed “are linked to the terror incidents that happened …

Gunmen have opened fire on an Iranian military parade in the south-western city of Ahvaz, killing at least 24 people, including civilians, and injuring more than 50, state media say. The attackers shot from a park near the parade and were wearing military uniforms, reports say. An anti-government Arab group, …

India cancelled on Friday a rare meeting between its foreign minister and her Pakistani counterpart scheduled to have taken place on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, only a day after announcing it would take place. The Indian foreign ministry said the cancellation followed the “latest brutal killings of …

An apparent attempt to bomb the American Embassy in Cairo failed on Tuesday when an explosive detonated prematurely in the backpack of a would-be attacker, the Egyptian government said in a statement. No one was injured. It was the latest reminder of the continuing threat to Western interests from the …

A British man who pledged allegiance to the Daesh was on Friday sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in jail for plotting to behead Prime Minister Theresa May in a suicide attack. Naimur Zakariyah Rahman, 21, planned to bomb the gates of her Downing Street office, kill guards and …

Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi called on extremists to wage war in a purported new audio recording released on Wednesday. The Telegram message is the first known to be released since another was broadcast in September last year, and comes as Daesh has lost most of its territory in …

Taliban militants have abducted dozens of passengers traveling in three buses in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz, government officials say. Esmatullah Muradi, a spokesman for the Kunduz governor, said the kidnapping took place on Monday morning when the buses – with some 170 passengers reportedly on board – were …

The UAE Armed Forces have said that since April 2015 the UAE has trained and equipped about 60,000 Yemeni forces to fight Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in order to restore peace, and rebuild and stabilise Yemen. Addressing a press conference in Dubai alongside UAE Minister of State …

Suicide bombers struck an open-air market and other targets in the southern Syrian city of Sweida early Wednesday. The four attacks killed dozens of people and injured dozens more, local media say, in a region where the government has been fighting ISIS militants. Citing the Syrian regime’s state media agency, …

A suicide bomber targeting a political rally in southwest Pakistan Friday killed 128 people, an official said, the deadliest in a string of attacks on campaign events that have raised security fears ahead of nationwide polls. The blast – which was claimed by the Daesh extremist group – ripped through …

A Tunisian man who allegedly served as a bodyguard to Osama Bin Laden was deported from Germany Friday, more than a decade after his asylum bid was first rejected, officials said. The 42-year-old, identified only as Sami A., had lived in Germany for more than two decades, but outrage over …

A German court on Wednesday found the main defendant in a high-profile neo-Nazi trial guilty over the killing of 10 people — most of them migrants — who were gunned down between 2000 and 2007 in a case that shocked Germany and prompted accusations of institutional racism in the country’s …

A suicide bombing at an election rally killed at least 13 people, including a politician, in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, police said, amid concerns about security ahead of national polls later this month. The attack targeted a campaign event organised in the city of Peshawar by the Awami National Party, …

A least nine people were killed in an attack on Somalia’s interior ministry and security forces killed all three attackers after a two-hour gun battle inside, police said on Saturday, as the Al Shabab extremist group claimed responsibility. A number of people, mostly government workers, were trapped in the ministry …

A Belgian husband and wife of Iranian origin have been charged with plotting to bomb a rally held last week in France by an exiled Iranian opposition group, the Belgian authorities said on Monday. The suspects, identified only as Amir S., 38, and Nasimeh N., 33, were arrested on Saturday …

A suicide bombing in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad has killed at least 19 people, most of them members of the country’s Sikh minority. Police said they had been travelling in a vehicle to meet President Ashraf Ghani, who is visiting Nangarhar province, when the bomber struck. Among those …

Indonesian cleric Aman Abdurrahman was sentenced to death Friday over his role in a 2016 Daesh militant group’s terror attack that saw a suicide bomber blow himself up at a Jakarta Starbucks cafe. Heavily armed police guarded the hearing at a Jakarta court – which had earlier found Abdurrahman guilty …

Afghanistan’s High Peace Council will hold a news conference on Sunday amid an unprecedented Taliban ceasefire and a day after President Ashraf Ghani said he would extend a government ceasefire but set no timeframe. Dozens of Taliban militants entered the Afghan capital and other cities on Saturday to celebrate the …

A suicide bomber killed at least 13 people at the entrance of an Afghan government building Monday, the day before a truce with Taliban insurgents was supposed to take hold. The Health Ministry said 13 employees of the Ministry of Rural Development were killed and 25 were wounded when the …

An attack targeting a meeting of Afghanistan’s top religious body on Monday left at least seven people dead and nine others wounded, according to Kabul police. Ghafor Aziz, the police chief of Kabul’s 5th District, said officers were working to secure the area after the attack. A suicide bomber struck …

Two unidentified men walked into a restaurant in the Canadian city of Mississauga and set off a bomb, wounding more than a dozen people, and then fleeing, authorities said. The blast went off in the Bombay Bhel restaurant at about 10:30 pm on Thursday. Fifteen people were taken to hospital, …

Sabika Sheikh was a world away from close family when a gunman shot and killed her and nine other people at Santa Fe High School last week. On Sunday, thousands turned out at a Houston-area mosque to briefly take part in a traditional Muslim funeral prayer for Sabika, 17, an …

Authorities say possible explosive devices have been found at and adjacent to the Texas high school where a shooting left as many as 10 people dead. The Santa Fe Independent School District said in a statement Friday that authorities are in the process of rendering the devices safe. There’s no …

A wave of blasts including a suicide bombing struck outside churches in Indonesia on Sunday, killing at least nine people and wounding dozens of others, police said, the latest assault on a religious minority in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country. Three separate locations in the city of Surabaya were hit …

At least 13 people were killed, and dozens more injured, after an explosion at a mosque in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, the latest in a wave of deadly attacks in the country in recent weeks. The mosque, in the city of Khost, was also being used as a voter registration …

The UAE has been leading global efforts to promote tolerance and coexistence, counter the root causes of extremism and disrupt the messages that lead to radicalisation, an international meeting in Abu Dhabi heard on Wednesday. The UAE has placed prevention at the centre of its policies and adopted measures to …

An Arkansas man has been convicted of malicious wounding for beating a black man during a white nationalist rally last year in Charlottesville, Va. Jacob Scott Goodwin, 23, will be sentenced in August. The jury is recommending 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine, local TV station NBC 29 reports. …

Suicide bombers killed more than 60 people at a mosque and a market in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday, in a twin attack bearing the hallmarks of Boko Haram and a day after US President Donald Trump pledged greater support to fight the extremists and militants. The blasts, said to have …

By Dr. Haytham Mouzahem* — Tunisian writer Hadi Yahmad recently published a book in Arabic about Tunisian jihadi Mohammed Al-Fahem. Born in 1990, Fahem traveled to Syria in late 2014 to join the “The Islamic State”(ISIS) — for him and his extremist cohorts, a dream come true. Fahem fled ISIS …

Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving suspect from the 2015 Paris attacks, has been jailed for 20 years in Belgium over a gunfight that led to his arrest. Abdeslam, 28, and co-defendant Sofien Ayari were both convicted of terror-related charges of attempted murder. Ayari, 24, was also given a 20-year sentence. …

A suicide blast killed 48 people — including five children — and wounded over 100 more on Sunday at a voter registration center in Kabul, according to Afghan officials. Carnage in Kabul adds to US challenges in Afghanistan The bomber was on foot when he detonated his explosives at the …

Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry says four policemen were killed after gunmen attacked a security checkpoint in the southwestern province of Asir, which borders Yemen. A ministry statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency says two of the gunmen were arrested following the attack, which took place shortly after midnight on …

An Egyptian court has sentenced three Muslim Brotherhood members to life in prison on terror-related charges. The Zagazig criminal court, northeast of the capital Cairo, sentenced another 36 defendants to 10 years in prison on similar charges, including rioting, inciting violence against security forces and joining an outlawed group, a …

The founder and CEO of Cambridge Analytica’s parent company compared Donald Trump’s campaign methods to those of Adolf Hitler, newly-released audio has shown. Nigel Oakes, who heads SCL Group, told a media researcher last November that Trump deliberately demonised Muslims and stoked fears about ISIS to appease his base, as …

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman has lashed out at the ‘Triangle of Evil’ – the Iranian regime, the Muslim Brotherhood and terrorists – in an interview with a US magazine. “First in the triangle we have the Iranian regime that wants to spread their extremist Shiite ideology. They believe …

The acquittal by a federal jury of Noor Salman, the widow of the man who gunned down dozens of people at the Pulse nightclub two years ago, handed federal prosecutors on Friday the rarest of defeats: a loss in a terrorism case. The outcome was even more striking because the …