Homeland Security News
Lebanon’s PM vows investigation after explosives-laden truck seized at checkpoint
Lebanon will carry out a thorough investigation to track down the suspected members of the militant Hezbollah group believed to be linked to an explosives-laden truck intercepted at the Dahr al-Baidar checkpoint last week, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said on Monday. Salam has described the incident as a “criminal operation” and has praised security forces…
Read MoreFear strikes Yemen’s 3rd largest city Taiz as Houthi rebels encircle it in a new siege
As word came of Houthi rebels closing in, Weam Abdullah and her family decided it was time to leave their home in Taiz, Yemen’s third largest city. They had survived a yearslong siege by the rebels earlier in their country’s civil war, and they didn’t want to endure that again. They made it out just…
Read MoreMan stabs at least 8 people in South Korean mall
A 59-year-old man stabbed at least eight people Tuesday at a shopping mall in the South Korean city of Incheon, police and fire officials said. One victim was in life-threatening condition and received surgery at a nearby hospital. The suspect attacked shoppers as he moved through the mall before business owners and bystanders subdued him,…
Read MoreParis court jails Indian man for leading sadist neo-Nazi cult that tortured girls
A Paris court on Friday sentenced a young Indian man to 20 years in prison for leading a masculinist group that forced young girls, many of them minors, to perform sexual acts and in some cases tortured them. Prosecutors had sought a 30-year jail term for Rohan Rane, a 29-year-old who they described as a…
Read MoreGermany detains fourth person over Starlink fire in Poland, RMF FM reports
Police have detained two more people in connection with a fire at a Starlink station in Poland last month, private broadcaster RMF FM reported on Tuesday, citing anonymous sources, bringing the total to four. Earlier on Tuesday RMF said that German police had detained a woman in Berlin in the case. It then reported the…
Read MorePennsylvania shooter who killed 8 was family’s patriarch, father of toddler killed says
A man whose toddler was among eight people killed in a mass shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania, said Sunday that the gunman was a grandfather who never seemed distressed or out of the ordinary. “I think that was a front for him,” Julius Windham said as he stood at a memorial to victims of Friday’s shooting,…
Read MoreSaudi airport passenger terminal is struck again, a day after 12 were killed
A projectile struck a passenger terminal at the international airport in Riyadh on Sunday, a day after a missile hit the same terminal and killed 12 people, the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said. The Houthis claimed responsibility for those attacks and others. Saudi authorities said one person, described as a Pakistani…
Read MorePolish police detain 135 in nationwide crackdown after school knife attacks
Polish police have detained 135 people and investigated more than 300 suspected criminal incidents as part of a nationwide security operation launched after a series of violent attacks at schools last week. Police said on Monday that officers had inspected nearly 80,000 educational institutions since Friday, recording 311 incidents involving suspected criminal offenses. “Police operations…
Read MoreFrench police arrest 14-year-old after two teaching staff wounded by hunting rifle fire
A middle school headmaster and teacher were wounded by gunfire at the Lakanal school in Aubagne, near Marseille on Monday morning, Education Minister Édouard Geffray said. A pupil at the school was suspected of being behind the attack, Geffray added in a post on X. French authorities arrested a 14-year-old on Monday in connection with…
Read MoreLeader of Global Violent Extremist Network ‘764’ Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Sexually Exploit Minors
Prasan Nepal, 21, also known by the online moniker “Trippy,” of High Point, North Carolina, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to commit sexual exploitation of a child. “This is the latest victory in the FBI’s work with partners to dismantle the violent 764 network,” said FBI Director Kash Patel. “Prasan Nepal, a leader of 764,…
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