US Soldier Charged With Plotting ‘Mass Casualty’ Attack With Neo-Nazis
A U.S. soldier accused of plotting a ‘mass casualty’ attack with Neo-Nazis has been charged with terrorism and conspiring to murder U.S. service members.
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Terrorism
American Expat Among UK Terror Victims
An American man was among the three victims stabbed to death in a park in the English town of Reading that is being treated as a terror attack, the U.S. ambassador to Britain said Monday.
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Stolen Banksy Work From Door of Paris Bataclan Found in Italy
Italian police said Wednesday they had retrieved a work by famed street artist Banksy commemorating the victims of the November 2015 Paris terror attacks stolen from the Bataclan concert hall.
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FBI Calls Texas Naval Base Shooting ‘Terrorism-Related’
A shooting at a Texas naval air station that wounded a sailor and left the gunman dead Thursday is being investigated as “terrorism-related,” the FBI said, but divulged few details.
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9/11 Families Cry Foul Over Saudi Diplomatic Immunity Claims
Investigating a former Saudi consular official in Los Angeles, attorneys for 9/11 families hit a roadblock in their longstanding litigation to hold the kingdom liable for the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history: claims of diplomatic immunity.
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FBI Ties Florida Naval Base Shooting to al-Qaida
The gunman in the deadly attack on a Florida military base last year had significant ties to al-Qaida, the FBI said Monday.
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Justices Reinstate Punitive Damages for Embassy Bomb Victims
Sudan owes more than $10 billion for sponsoring the simultaneous 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings by al-Qaida that killed 200 people in Kenya and Tanzania, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, refusing to eliminate punitive damages.
Read moreGermany Arrests Five in Suspected ISIS Terror Cell
German police have arrested five Tajik nationals on suspicion they belonged to an Islamic State terror cell planning attacks on U.S. forces stationed in Germany, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Senators Share Concerns of FBI Manipulation in 9/11 Case
A bipartisan coalition called for an investigation of how the FBI has handled subpoenas in the lawsuit that calls Saudi Arabia complicit in the 9/11 attacks.
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Texan Accused of Threatening to Spread Virus in Grocery Stores
A Texas man is facing a terrorism-related charge after allegedly saying on Facebook that he hired someone to spread the coronavirus at grocery stores, a threat that federal authorities say was ultimately found to be a hoax.
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US Again Accused of Killing Civilians in Somalia Airstrikes
The U.S. military is facing more allegations of killing civilians with airstrikes in Somalia, and now says it will address the issue more fully in upcoming public reports.
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Maduro Fires Back at ‘Racist’ Trump After Drug Charge
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro stood defiant in the face of a $15 million bounty by the United States to face drug trafficking charges, calling Donald Trump a “racist cowboy” and saying he is ready to fight by whatever means necessary should the U.S. and neighboring Colombia dare to invade.
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Ninth Circuit Considers Liability of Social Networks in Terror Attacks
Questions posed by a Ninth Circuit panel Thursday suggest a new legal theory could open social media companies to liability for letting terrorists use their networks to spread propaganda.
Read moreMaduro Charged in US With Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering
U.S. prosecutors charged Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday, saying the socialist leader and several of his key aides conspired with Colombian rebels “to flood the United States with cocaine.”
Read moreNew Zealand Mosque Gunman Pleads Guilty to Mass Murder
The man who committed the worst atrocity in New Zealand’s modern history when he slaughtered 51 worshipers at two Christchurch mosques unexpectedly pleaded guilty to all charges Thursday.
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Death Penalty Row Scuttles US-UK Cooperation on Terror Suspects
Based on the Trump administration’s refusal to put the death penalty off the table, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked sharing information with U.S. authorities about two suspected members of the Islamic State group cell tied to the beheading of reporter James Foley.
Read moreJihadis Kill at Least 70 Nigerian Soldiers
At least 70 Nigerian soldiers were killed in an ambush on their convoy by jihadist fighters in the restive northeast, military and security sources said Tuesday.
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Trial Ordered for 20 Suspects in 2015 Paris Terror Attacks
French judges have ordered 20 people to stand trial over the coordinated attacks that killed 130 people in Paris in November 2015, including Salah Abdeslam, the only suspected assailant still alive, prosecutors said Monday.
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National Security Surveillance Nabs More Than Spies
The case against Nassif Sami Daher and Kamel Mohammad Rammal, two Michigan men accused of food stamp fraud, hardly seemed exceptional. But the tool that agents used to investigate them was extraordinary: a secretive surveillance process intended to identify potential spies and terrorists.
Read moreOil and Terrorism
The Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a suit against Chevron claiming the company funded acts of terrorism through surcharges of Iraqi crude oil, which were remitted to former Iraq President Saddam Hussein. While Chevron knew a “kickback from its purchase” would be end up in Iraq, it did not necessarily know those funds were specifically used to finance terrorism, the court ruled.
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