Posts Tagged ‘worldwide terrorism threats & trends’
Israeli police say one killed in bus station knife attack
An elderly man has been killed and four other people have been wounded in what police say was a terrorist stabbing attack in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. It happened at the HaMifratz Central train and bus station, and the attacker was shot dead at the scene by security guards, police said. The police…
Read MoreDriver rams car into crowd in southwestern Germany
One person was killed and others injured when a car rammed into a crowd Monday in the western German city of Mannheim, police said as they asked the public to stay away from the downtown area and remain in their homes. A suspect is in custody. Police spokesperson Stefan Wilhelm said that a driver drove…
Read MoreGerman police on alert after Islamic State calls for carnival attacks
Police are on high alert ahead of Germany’s traditional carnival celebrations this week after social media connected to the Islamic State militant group called for attacks targeting revellers in Cologne and Nuremberg, said police spokespeople. Bild newspaper reported that a German-language propaganda site run by IS had published a computer-created collage image calling on viewers…
Read MoreJailed PKK leader tells group to lay down arms, end conflict with Turkiye
The jailed leader of Turkiye’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan has made a historic call for the party to lay down its arms, dissolve itself and end its decades-long conflict with the Turkish state. A delegation of Turkiye’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party on Thursday visited the island prison where Ocalan has been held since…
Read MoreAt least 10 injured after car rams into bus stop in Israel
At least 10 people have been injured after a car rammed into a bus stop in Israel, at Karkur Junction, according to Israeli police. The suspect is a 53-year-old Palestinian from the Jenin area who is married to an Israeli citizen and living in Israel without a permit, according to police. The driver ran over…
Read MoreJailed PKK leader tells group to lay down arms, end conflict with Turkiye
The jailed leader of Turkiye’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan has made a historic call for the party to lay down its arms, dissolve itself and end its decades-long conflict with the Turkish state. A delegation of Turkiye’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party on Thursday visited the island prison where Ocalan has been held since…
Read MoreU.S. charges Tajik man living in New York with conspiring to help ISIS
A Tajik man living in New York was arrested and charged with conspiring to provide material support to the ISIS and ISIS-K terrorist groups, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday. Federal prosecutors alleged that Mansuri Manuchekhri, a Tajik national who was illegally living in Brooklyn, facilitated the transfer of over $70,000 to ISIS-affiliated individuals in…
Read MoreColombian city faces worst violence in decades as armed groups wreak havoc
Residents of a violence-torn province in northern Colombia are bracing for further bloodshed as a conflict between rival armed groups spread to a regional capital in scenes residents said they had not witnessed since the cartel unrest of the 1990s. The mayor of Cúcuta imposed a 48-hour curfew on the population of 1 million inhabitants…
Read MoreLawyers bid to postpone Lockerbie bombing trial
The trial of a Libyan suspect in the Lockerbie bombing, which was due to start in the United States in May, could be postponed following a request from the prosecution and defence. Abu Agila Masud Al-Marimi has been accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am 103 in 1988, causing the deaths of…
Read MoreMorocco says it dismantled Islamic State cell that was planning attacks
Moroccan authorities this month arrested a dozen people they said were planning attacks on behalf of the Islamic State in the Sahel, a region south of the Sahara Desert, officials said Monday. The discovery of the terrorist cell and what authorities called an “imminent dangerous terrorist plot” reflect the expanding ambitions of extremist groups in…
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