Posts Tagged ‘worldwide terrorism threats & trends’

Morocco says it has arrested 10 members of a cell linked to the ISIL affiliate in Sahel Province (ISSP), foiling a planned attack. The Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations, Morocco’s chief agency responsible for counterterrorism operations, said on Monday that as well as seizing the suspects, simultaneous raids across several Moroccan cities had found bladed…

At least six people were killed after an explosive device was detonated Thursday in a cafe in the Syrian capital, Damascus, Syria’s Health Ministry said. The explosion near the main courthouse complex left 22 others wounded, the ministry said as reported by Syria’s state-run Al-Ikhbariya network. No group immediately claimed responsibility. Security forces rushed to…

A Honduras-based Chinese national extradited from Guatemala pleaded guilty today to conspiring to import cocaine into the United States, conspiring to launder money derived from drug trafficking, and to providing material support to a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, specifically the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG). According to court documents, Wenshen Xu, 52, used a…

The Justice Department announced today that Catherine Beth Washburn, 37, of Irondequoit, New York, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with attempting to provide material support and resources, namely currency, to designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) the Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) also known as Al-Quds Brigades. According to the criminal complaint, Washburn is a…

Gunmen burst into a secondary school in ​Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state and abducted students as ‌they were sitting exams on Monday morning, police said, the latest mass kidnapping in an insecure region. The military said troops rescued 10 students and ​teachers after tracking the attackers and engaging in a ​firefight, in which one soldier and…

A militant rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the provincial headquarters of the paramilitary Pakistan Rangers in Karachi on Saturday, triggering an intense exchange of gunfire with security forces, police and witnesses said. Ambulances rushed to the scene as security forces responded to the assault in the capital of southern Sindh province. A little-known militant group,…

It is “only a matter of time” before the type of drone attacks seen on battlefields overseas reach the United States, FBI Deputy Director Chris Raia warned in an interview with Fox News Digital — as investigators race to prepare for rapidly evolving technology that could eventually allow operators thousands of miles away to pilot…