Posts by MCAC(Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center)

Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, Ruslan Maratovich Asainov, 46, a U.S. citizen and former resident of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, was sentenced to life in prison for providing material support to ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization, that resulted in death. Asainov was also sentenced to concurrent terms of 20 years in…

Tributes have been paid to a couple who were killed on their honeymoon in Uganda in a “cowardly terrorist attack”. A British businessman, David Barlow, his wife Celia, a South African-born hotel executive, and their Ugandan guide were driving through the Queen Elizabeth national park on Tuesday when they were attacked and killed by a…

With two deadly acts of terrorism confirmed in Western Europe in the last six days, the European Union’s top law enforcement official said she is worried about what might happen in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel and Israel’s military response. “I am concerned,” executive director of Europol Catherine De Bolle told ABC…

Israel, the U.S. government and independent security experts cast doubt Wednesday on Palestinian claims that an Israeli airstrike was responsible for a deadly explosion at a Gaza hospital compound, saying the preliminary evidence pointed to a local militant group. The U.S. has collected “high confidence” signals intelligence indicating that the blast at the hospital in…

A 45-year-old man who gunned down two Swedish nationals on Monday night in Brussels and was shot dead by the police on Tuesday morning had been known to Belgian security services for the better part of the decade, Belgian officials said. For the seven years leading up to his attacks on Monday night, which have…