Boko Haram strikes in Cameroon as foreign troops arrive from Chad
The attacks happened in the villages of Mabass and Makxy in the Mayo-Tsanaga Division of the Far North Region of Cameroon on Sunday morning, Saiid Abdulkarim, a journalist for the…
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Murphy: Drone strikes are ‘bulletin board material’
The Connecticut Democrat said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the United States “shouldn’t be full of such hubris” that it takes actions that lead to more attacks like…
Is the U.S. at risk of a Paris-like attack?
One day after Cornell’s arrest Belgian authorities took down a group they believed was plotting imminent attacks, resulting in a battle with the suspects who opened fire with military weaponry…
Belgian terror suspects wore all black; police killed 2, wounded and arrested 1
Officers killed two suspects, and wounded and arrested a third. Like the Paris killers, the three suspects in the town of Verviers were seen on Thursday dressed in all black….
Tom Cotton on terror threat: ‘We have to win on offense’
Cotton, an Army combat veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, called for the deployment of additional special operations forces and an increase in bombing missions to fight the…
Heightened security checks coming to U.S. airports after AQAP calls for lone wolf plane bombers
The new issue of AQAP’s Inspire magazine, released on December 24, featured instructions on how to build what AQAP called a “hidden bomb” from easily purchasable materials. It also included…
Does Islam fuel terrorism?
Consider the choice of targets of the terrorists: A magazine that in the terrorists’ minds had insulted the Prophet Mohammed. Before they died on Friday, one of the Kouachi brothers…
David Cameron: If government can’t snoop on it, you shouldn’t be allowed to use it
Cameron said the new legislation will come in the name of security. In light of the terror attacks on Paris, he said the new legislation is appropriate. “The Paris attacks…
Five lessons of the Paris attacks
Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Paris later this week, but that the administration could have been so tone deaf in missing a this weekend’s chance to highlight its…
Why Boko Haram is more worrying than ISIS
On Sunday, at almost the same moment that dozens of world leaders linked arms and led millions of people through the streets of Paris to commemorate the 17 victims of…
Thousands expected at German anti-Islam rallies
On its Facebook page, PEGIDA says citizens should “wake from their slumber” and recognize the “danger in the Islamic ideology.” “Stop the radical Salfists’ Islamization,” it urges. “As a society,…
Massive search for woman linked to Paris hostage-taker
Now the 26-year-old Boumeddiene is the subject of a massive hunt after Coulibalysaid to be linked to two brothers accused in Wednesday’s massacre at the offices of a Parisian satirical…
France: Heartbreak as deadly siege ends, search for suspect continues
Police killed three suspects during raids on Friday one wanted in the fatal shooting of a policewoman and four hostages, the other two in the massacre at the offices of…
Huge death toll in Boko Haram attacks?
Musa Bukar, chairman of Kukawa local government where Baga is located, claimed that more than 2,000 people were killed in the attacks, but he could not explain how he arrived…
U.S. official on terror attacks: ‘This isn’t going to stop’
The official says the attacks demonstrate how “the boundaries between all of these affiliates is seemingly breaking down and the threat is metastasizing and turning into a global network.” –
When their hell becomes ours
“Pieces of flesh were plastered on the wall. There were children and women crying for help,” said one civil society activist who spoke with Reuters just after the suicide attack….
France: Raids kill 3 suspects, including 2 wanted in Charlie Hebdo attack
The French government’s work is not over. There’s still a lot of healing to do, a lot of questions to answer about how to prevent future attacks, and the pursuit…