Anti-Jewish attacks in Europe: Keep it in perspective
I was visiting from Europe, where terrorism was a fact of life, and I was scared. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s in Europe, and even beyond, far-left and far-right extremists,…
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FBI Arrests 3 Brooklyn Men Suspected Of Planning To Join ISIS
Three men who allegedly planned to join ISIS in Syria were arrested in Brooklyn on Wednesday. Law enforcement officials said that if the three suspects failed to join the Islamic…
U.S. staged mock mall attacks to test readiness after Kenya siege, official says
The terror group released a video Saturday calling for similar attacks in malls in the United States, Canada and the UK. Although Homeland Security and the FBI say they are…
U.S. staged mock mall attacks to test readiness after Kenya siege, official says
The terror group released a video Saturday calling for similar attacks in malls in the United States, Canada and the UK. Although Homeland Security and the FBI say they are…
Brazen, brutal: 5 terror groups making headlines this month
Over the weekend, Al- Shabaab released a video urging its sympathizers to attack malls in the United States, UK and Canada. The same day, ISIS had one showing its members…
Brazen, brutal: 5 terror groups making headlines this month
Over the weekend, Al- Shabaab released a video urging its sympathizers to attack malls in the United States, UK and Canada. The same day, ISIS had one showing its members…
5 Things to Know for Your New Day – Monday, February 23
AL-SHABAAB U.S. malls threatened: Remember the horrific 2013 attack an upscale Kenyan mall that left more than 60 people dead? Well the Somali-based terror group Al-Shabaab says it wants an…
Abbott: Australia to strengthen citizenship laws to combat terror
“Those could include restricting the ability to leave, or return to, Australia… access to consular services overseas, as well as access to welfare payments,” said Abbott. “We will also clamp…
Al-Shabaab releases video calling for attacks on malls in Canada, UK, U.S.
In its new video, the terror group calls for similar attacks on malls in the three countries. Al-Shabaab identified specific malls, but CNN will not name them. – Last year,…
DHS intelligence report warns of domestic right-wing terror threat
A new intelligence assessment, circulated by the Department of Homeland Security earlier this month and reviewed by CNN, focuses on the domestic terror threat from right-wing sovereign citizen extremists, and…
Boko Haram Launches First Attack on Chadian Village
MOUNDOU, Chad — Suspected Boko Haram militants attacked a village on the shore of Lake Chad early Friday, marking the first such violence against the neighbor contributing the most military…
ISIS: Suspected terror cell leader in Syria
The manhunt for the suspected ringleader of a terror cell in Belgium has gone cold, a senior Belgian counterterrorism official told CNN. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian-Moroccan ISIS fighter, is believed…
Obama On Death Of Hostage Kayla Mueller: U.S. Won’t Change Ransom Policy
President Barack Obama said Tuesday that U.S. policy of not paying ransoms for citizens captured by terror organizations will not change, despite the death of Kayla Jane Mueller, who was…
Nigeria vote delayed, ‘security concerns’ cited in wake of Boko Haram attacks
The Islamist terror group Boko Haram has increased its attacks against troops and civilians in the weeks leading up to the elections. – CNN’s Lillian Leposo and Christian Purefoy reported…
Anguish in Argentina After Mysterious Murder of Prosecutor
Every week, The WorldPost asks an expert to shed light on a topic driving headlines around the world. Today, we speak with leading Argentinian journalist Nelson Castro about the mysterious…
Kayla Mueller’s parents appeal to ISIS: ‘We are still hopeful’
Until now, they said, they have not talked to the media as ISIS warned them not to. The terror group captured Mueller, an Arizona native, in 2013. It said Friday…
Obama Calls For Balancing Free Speech With Respect For Religion
President Barack Obama emphasized Thursday the importance of balancing the right to free speech with respect for religion, chastising groups who have committed acts of terror in the name of…
White House Grapples With Fraught Terrorism Language
Twice this month, the White House has publicly grappled with the politically fraught language of terrorism. In the days after a deadly terror spree in Paris, President Barack Obama was…
A frightening, far-reaching new world of terror threats since 9/11
Times have changed, and the terror landscape has changed with it. Public Enemy No. 1, Osama bin Laden, is gone, killed by U.S. commandos in a 2011 Pakistan raid. The…
Will U.S. advisers move to Iraqi front lines?
The possible recommendation would need to be approved by President Obama who has said that US troops will not being sent on a combat mission. But putting advisers with front…
Meet Tom Cotton, The Senate’s Newest Unapologetic Hawk
WASHINGTON — Less than a month into his first term as a U.S. Senator, Arkansas Republican Tom Cotton is already proving to be one of the most hardline foreign policy…
France To Get Better Guns, More Intel Agents To Fight Terror
France announced sweeping new measures to counter homegrown terrorism Wednesday, including giving security forces better weapons and protection, going on an intelligence agent hiring spree and creating a better database…
White House Chief Of Staff Denis McDonough Takes Blame For U.S. Absence At Paris March
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough took the blame for the absence of a high-profile U.S. official at a unity march following the recent Paris terror attacks. – Watch…
German Police Raid Homes In Terror Investigation
Some 200 police officers raided 13 homes in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany Tuesday, in connection with the arrests last week of two suspected members of an Islamic terror cell….
Belgium hunts ringleader of suspected terror cell
The suspected key link between senior ISIS operatives in Syria and the Belgian terrorist cell, Belgian-Moroccan ISIS fighter Abelhamid Abaaoud, is still at large, a senior Belgian counterterrorism official said….
Cameron, Rubio: Terrorism threat growing
Europe terror threat: Greece aids Belgium with investigation He said he won’t use the word “war,” as French President Francois Hollande did, to describe the effort to prevent terror attacks…
Cameron, Obama to announce cyber security effort
Cameron is at the White House for bilateral talks expected to focus squarely on security after this month’s terror attacks in Paris and growing fears of violent Islamic terror cells…
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….
5 things to know for your New Day — Friday, January 16, 2015
BELGIUM ANTI-TERROR OPERATION Operation thwarted: Belgian police pounced on a radical terror cell yesterday that they say was about to strike. Officers killed two suspects and wounded and arrested a…
Paris terror attacks: Where are we now
There’s a money trail that points to Yemen and a cache of weapons reportedly found in an apartment. This all comes as a nation continues to mourn and Parisians flock…