Archive for December 2025
Australian police find no evidence of broader terrorist network after Bondi Beach attacks
Australian police found no evidence that the two gunmen who killed 15 people in an antisemitic attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach belonged to a larger terrorist network, authorities said Tuesday. Sajid Akram, 50, and his son Naveed Akram, 24, spent most of November in Davao City in the southern Philippines before returning to Australia on…
Read MoreNorth Texas man charged with trying to provide material support to ISIS, officials say
A Midlothian man has been charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization after he brought bomb-making materials to an individual he thought was part of ISIS, authorities said. John Michael Garza Jr. was charged in a federal complaint with international terrorism, according to U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of…
Read MoreAt least 15 injured in a knife and chemical attack at a factory in Japan
A man was arrested after stabbing eight people and injuring seven others with what was believed to be bleach at a rubber factory in central Japan on Friday, officials said. Eight people were taken to hospitals after being stabbed by the man with a knife at the Yokohama Rubber Company in the city of Mishima,…
Read MoreThree Turkish police officers killed in raid on IS militants as New Year security tightens
Three Turkish police officers were killed and nine were wounded in a shootout with suspected Islamic State group (IS) militants during a counter-terrorism operation in Yalova province Monday, authorities said. The clash erupted around 3 am local time when police raided a house in Elmalik village, about 9 kilometres from Yalova city centre in the…
Read MoreKnife attack near Suriname’s capital Paramaribo kills at least 9 people, including kids, police say
A knife attack outside Suriname ’s capital of Paramaribo killed at least nine people, including five children, police said Sunday. Officials said the victims included four of the attacker’s children and neighbors who came to their aid. A neighbor’s child was also killed. Local media reported the victims were located at multiple homes. The attack…
Read MoreNigeria averts unilateral US action by cooperating on airstrike
By publicly cooperating with the United States on a Christmas Day airstrike, Nigeria’s government may have averted humiliating unilateral military action threatened a month ago by President Donald Trump. But security experts say it is unclear whether such strikes can do much to hinder Islamist militants who have long menaced communities in the area. Trump…
Read MoreIslamic State supporters guilty of planning ‘most deadly’ gun attack on Jewish targets in Manchester
Two Islamic State extremists have been found guilty of plotting a deadly gun attack on Manchester’s Jewish community. Walid Saadaoui, 38, and Amar Hussein, 52, were found guilty by a jury at Preston Crown Court on Tuesday. They had bought assault rifles, handguns and ammunition for the suicide attack they planned on Jewish targets. They…
Read MoreTurkey thwarts Islamic state group’s New Year’s Eve suicide attack plot
Turkish intelligence captured an IS member assigned to carry out suicide attacks in Turkey and Europe, as authorities warned of possible New Year’s Eve attack plots. Ten suspects were detained for financing the network. Turkey’s national intelligence agency MITcaptured Mehmet Gören, a senior IS-Khorasan (ISIS-K) member assigned to carry out suicide attacks targeting civilians in…
Read MoreFBI: Nashville Christmas Day bomber wanted explosion to break ‘reincarnation loop’
The lead FBI agent who investigated the Christmas Day 2020 bombing is speaking publicly for the first time about Anthony Warner’s motives, revealing the bomber’s reason for setting off the suicide bomb on 2nd Avenue and his desire to break what he called a “reincarnation loop.” FBI Agent Tammi Laskowski told WSMV4 Investigates Warner chose…
Read MoreRussian air attack on Ukraine kills three and sparks sweeping outages
Russian missile and drone attacks killed at least three Ukrainians including a child on Tuesday, triggering widespread emergency power cuts and prompting neighbouring Poland to scramble jets. The attacks, days after another round of U.S.-led talks to end the nearly four-year-old war, hit energy facilities in western regions the hardest, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said.…
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