Terrorism

Early this morning, Austrian SWAT teams used explosives to breach the apartment of the killed gunman as they begin their investigation.

Reuters has identified the kidnapped American as 27-year-old Philip Walton. He was abducted by armed men on motorcycles.

Duque: This criminal was killed in a meticulous operation of shared intelligence by the national army of Colombia and the national police.

Afghan intelligence tweeted out that Special Forces killed al-Qaeda’s #2 commander, Abu Muhsin al-Masri, in an operation in eastern Ghazni.

Staying in Afghanistan until an Afghan government-Taliban peace is reached, as some political analysts are calling for, would be a mistake.

Qatar provided anti-Gaddafi militias with training, funding, logistical support, equipment and weapons by bypassing the arms embargo.

Senior counterterrorism director Kash Patel said that the humanitarian worker Sandra Loli and businessman Mikael Gidada are returning home.

New Taliban attacks come amidst the ongoing intra-Afghan peacetalks and talk of the U.S. troop presence scaling down.

Duque said that given the seriousness of the crime, they “should immediately lose the connotation of being a member of Congress.”

They’re not rock stars. They’re cold-blooded killers who kidnapped, brutally beat, raped, and beheaded innocent people.

SECDEF Esper cited a complex security environment and transnational threats to regional instability as motivators to the renewed alliance.

The warning comes on the heels of reports that American intelligence assets had picked up indications of an attack on the embassy in Baghdad.