Posts Tagged ‘worldwide terrorism threats & trends’
American Woman Convicted of Receiving Military Training From ISIS in Syria
Today, a federal jury in Brooklyn convicted Halima Salman, 27, a U.S. citizen and former resident of Brooklyn, also known as “Umm Khattab al-Muhajir,” of receiving military-type training from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization, in Syria. Salman was convicted after a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge…
Read MoreSerbian police kill attacker outside Israeli Embassy in suspected ‘terrorist attack’
Serbian police said an attacker was shot dead after assaulting a guard with knives outside the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade early Wednesday. Serbia’s Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said authorities were treating the incident as a suspected “terrorist attack”, after an unidentified minor allegedly targeted a police officer with two knives. “A minor whose identity has…
Read MoreFBI, Florida deputies arrest teen accused of seeking ISIS help to build explosives
A 15-year-old Gainesville boy is accused of seeking ISIS help to build drones and explosives, with investigators finding bomb-making files and chemicals at his home. Jude Sleeper was arrested Monday and charged with making or attempting to make a destructive device, according to the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies say the investigation began on Friday…
Read MoreViable explosive device in package delivered to hotel
A suspect package delivered to a hotel in Londonderry contained a “viable” explosive device, police have said. Army bomb experts were sent to the hotel at Ebrington Square in the Waterside after the package was discovered at about 15:20 GMT on Tuesday. They carried out a controlled explosion on the device, which was later taken…
Read MoreAttacks kill at least 60 Christians in Ethiopia
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s Holy Synod said Monday that 14 people were killed in Merti district on Oct. 20 and a further 46 in Shirka district on Oct. 24. Both districts are in Oromia’s Arsi Zone. More than 20 people were seriously wounded and 20 homes were burned down, the church said, describing the…
Read MoreTwo charged over alleged plot to assist Iran in RAF Fairford incident
Two British nationals have been charged with national security offences over the incident at RAF Fairford in September, with one suspected of assisting Iran’s intelligence service. Mohmed Ahmad Abdulkarim, 24, has been charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service after the incident near the airbase in Gloucestershire. Nouman Essghir, also 24, has been charged with…
Read MoreJordan carries out deadly strike in Syria in retaliation for church attack
Jordan has struck what its military says were “terrorist organisations” in Syria in retaliation for an attack on a Christian funeral last week that killed nine people. Syrian health officials told state media five people, including women, children and an elderly man, were killed in the strike on a village in the southern Daraa province.…
Read MoreJordan arrests three men suspected of deadly church attack after shootout
Jordanian security forces have arrested three armed men suspected of a shooting attack at a church last week that killed nine Christians and injured 34 other people, officials say. The Public Security Directorate (PSD) said the unnamed “terrorists” were located before dawn inside an abandoned house in Karak governorate, south of the capital, Amman. They…
Read MoreMacron says Paris suburb shooting that killed one person was terrorist and racist act
A gunman killed one person and wounded five others, including a 12-year-old girl, in a shooting in a Paris suburb that French President Emmanuel Macron described as a “terrorist and racist” attack. “What happened today is, I am telling you, a turning point, because it is the first time we have had a terrorist act…
Read MoreDeath toll rises to 9 after gunmen open fire on church in Jordan
At least nine people were killed and 34 were injured after gunmen opened fire on a church in Karak, Jordan, on Friday. Surveillance footage verified by ABC News shows at least three gunmen pulling up at the entrance to the St. George Greek Orthodox Church in the village of Hammoud, Karak governorate, before opening fire.…
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