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Georgia school shooter and his father indicted on new counts in Apalachee High School killings
A Georgia grand jury indicted a father and son on murder and other charges Thursday in the mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, last month that left four people dead and another nine injured. Colt Gray, 14, was indicted on a total of 55 counts, including four counts of felony and malice…
Read MoreMiddle East Latest: Hezbollah Says Its War With Israel Is Entering A New Phase
Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group said Friday it is entering a new phase in its fight against invading Israeli troops, as the region continued to reckon with Israel’s claim that top Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has been killed in a battle with Israeli forces in Gaza the previous day. Hamas has still not responded to the…
Read MoreVenezuela detains three Americans, two others for alleged terrorism
Venezuela has detained three Americans and two others for alleged terrorist activities, Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said on Thursday, marking an increase in the count of foreign prisoners in the South American country. The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has regularly accused members of the opposition and foreign detainees of conspiring with U.S. entities…
Read MoreSingapore foils teen terror plot weeks before planned attack in public housing area
A 17-year-old self-radicalised Singaporean was arrested under the Internal Security Act (ISA) mere weeks before his plan to carry out a terror attack in the Housing Board heartlands. The student, described in a Friday press release by the Internal Security Department (ISD) as a “staunch” Islamic State supporter, wanted to use either a kitchen knife…
Read MoreSouth Korean Intelligence Says North Has Sent Troops To Aid Russia’s War In Ukraine
South Korea’s spy agency said Friday that North Korea has dispatched troops to support Russia’s war against Ukraine, a development that could bring a third country into the war and intensify a standoff between North Korea and the West. The National Intelligence Service said in a statement that Russian navy ships transferred 1,500 North Korean…
Read MoreHamas leader Yahya Sinwar killed in Gaza by Israeli forces, officials say
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, Israel Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Thursday. Sinwar has been credited as the mastermind behind the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel that led to the deaths of 1,200 people, the worst terrorist attack in Israel’s history. “The master murderer Yahya Sinwar,…
Read MoreRussia suspected of planting device on plane that caused UK warehouse fire
Counter-terrorism police are investigating whether Russian spies planted an incendiary device on a plane to Britain which later caught fire at a DHL warehouse in Birmingham, the Guardian can reveal. Nobody was reported injured in the fire on 22 July at a warehouse in the suburb of Minworth that handles parcels for delivery, and the…
Read MoreOhio Man Who Concealed Croatian War Crime Charge Sentenced to Prison for Immigration Fraud
An Ohio man was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison for possessing a green card he illegally obtained by concealing that he had been charged with a war crime in Croatia prior to immigrating to the United States. According to court documents, Jugoslav Vidic, 56, of Parma Heights, in applying to become a lawful…
Read MoreA Howard County man talked about joining ISIS. Those chats landed him in jail on a terrorism charge.
Michael Teekaye first got on the FBI’s radar as a teenager in December 2019, when agents say he expressed an interest in extremist Islamic ideology on social media. Teekaye said in his first interview with the FBI he didn’t want to join the Islamic State anymore, that his desire had waned after feeling used by…
Read MoreUS B-2 bombers strike Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen
The US carried out a round of strikes in Yemen against the Iran-backed Houthis on Wednesday evening, according to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, targeting five underground weapons storage facilities using B-2 stealth bombers. The facilities housed advanced conventional weapons used to target military and civilian vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden,…
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