Sri Lanka’s president has asked for the resignations of the defense secretary and the national police chief after security forces failed to act on warnings before Easter suicide bombings that killed at least 359 people.
Read moreSri Lanka’s state minister of defense said Tuesday that the Easter attack on churches, hotels and other sites in the South Asian nation was “carried out in retaliation” for the shooting massacre at two New Zealand mosques last month.
Read moreAs a state of emergency took effect Tuesday giving the Sri Lankan military war-time powers, police arrested 40 suspects, including the driver of a van allegedly used by suicide bombers involved in deadly Easter bombings and the owner of a house where some of them lived, officials said.
Read moreSri Lankan authorities flicked the off switch on most social media after Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels killed hundreds of people, a dramatic reaction that reflects distrust in the capability of American internet companies to control harmful content.
Read moreThe coordinated Easter Sunday bombings that ripped through Sri Lankan churches and luxury hotels, killing nearly 300 people, were carried out by seven suicide bombers from a domestic militant group named National Thowfeek Jamaath, a government official said Monday.
Read moreMore than 200 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in eight bomb blasts that rocked churches and luxury hotels in or near Sri Lanka’s capital on Easter Sunday — the deadliest violence the South Asian island country has seen since a bloody civil war ended a decade ago.
Read moreThe Sixth Circuit affirmed dismissal of terror-related claims against Twitter, Google and Facebook for the Pulse night club massacre in Orlando.
Read moreRejecting a challenge by the Czech Republic, a magistrate judge urged Europe’s top court Thursday to uphold a law banning the use of semiautomatic weapons by civilians, among other gun restrictions.
Read moreThe Trump administration is preparing to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a “foreign terrorist organization,” an unprecedented move against a national armed force that could have widespread implications for U.S. personnel and policy in the Middle East and elsewhere.
Read moreDutch lawyer Serge Weening only wanted to vacation in Miami with his girlfriend. But his work defending terror suspects in the Netherlands apparently resulted in his being denied entry into the United States.
Read moreA federal judge says he will rule in the near future on the constitutionality of a government watchlist that includes more than 1 million people the FBI considers to be “known or suspected terrorists.”
Read moreAdmitted mail bomber Cesar Sayoc has retreated from his guilty plea in a letter to the judge presiding over his criminal case, claiming he admitted guilt under “extreme emotional circumstances,” and did not fully comprehend court proceedings.
Read moreGiving the crisis of climate change political import, national-security experts warned lawmakers Tuesday about how governments become vulnerable to terrorism as drought begets disease and otherwise cripples global economies.
Read moreA man who survived New Zealand’s mosque attacks told a crowd of about 20,000 people on Friday that he forgives the terrorist who killed his wife and 49 others.
Read moreA majority of Americans believe President Donald Trump has not done enough to distance himself from white nationalist groups, the Pew Research Center reported Thursday.
Read moreAn explosives-laden vehicle detonated outside a busy restaurant in Somalia’s capital, killing at least 10 people, police said Thursday.
Read moreA federal judge ordered Iran to pay $353 million in damages to family members and survivors of the June 14, 1985, hijacking of TWA Flight 847 from Athens, Greece.
Read moreU.S.-backed forces declared military victory over the Islamic State group in Syria on Saturday after liberating the last pocket of territory held by the militants, marking the end of a brutal self-styled caliphate the group carved out in large parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014.
Read moreDutch police and prosecutors pressed on Tuesday with their investigation into the motive of a suspect who they believe shot and killed three people and injured five more in an attack on a tram in the central city of Utrecht.
Read moreA gunman killed three people and wounded five on a tram Monday morning in what authorities said may have been a terror attack, and a suspect was seized after a manhunt that convulsed the Dutch city of Utrecht.
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