Court Sentences 5 Suspects to Prison for 2016 Belgian Terror Attack

A Belgian court on Friday sentenced five men to prison terms ranging from 20 years to life on charges of terrorist murder in connection with 2016 suicide bombings that killed 32 people and wounded hundreds at Brussels airport and a busy subway station, the country’s deadliest peacetime attack. A chief suspect, Salah Abdeslam, had previously…

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Knoxville man arrested on threat of terrorism, harassment charges

A Knoxville man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly making a threat against the Marion County Road Department. Joshua Isely, 39, is charged with threat of terrorism and first-degree harassment, according to a news release from the Knoxville Police Department. Police began investigating Tuesday around 7:44 a.m. after receiving a report about the alleged threat, which…

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Talks Have Opened On The Future Of Nagorno-Karabakh As Azerbaijan Claims Full Control Of The Region

Representatives from Nagorno-Karabakh and the Azerbaijan government are meeting for talks Thursday to discuss the future of the breakaway region Azerbaijan claims to fully control following a military offensive this week. Nagorno-Karabakh authorities and the Azerbaijan State News Agency say the talks Thursday between regional leaders and the Baku government will focus on Nagorno-Karabakh’s “reintegration”…

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Shots fired outside US Embassy in Lebanon, but no injuries have been reported

An unknown gunman opened fire outside the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon late Wednesday night. Embassy spokesperson Jake Nelson said in a statement that “small arms fire was reported in the vicinity of the entrance” of the heavily fortified compound in the Beirut suburb of Awkar. “There were no injuries, and our facility is safe,” he…

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Brooklyn subway shooter Frank James seeking 18 years in N train attack

Attorneys for a man who opened fire on a crowded New York subway train, injuring 10 and sparking an intense city-wide manhunt, are asking that he be sentenced to 18 years in prison. Frank James, now 64, has been “tormented by lifelong paranoid schizophrenia,” his federal public defenders wrote in a sentencing memorandum this week.…

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