Tag: Terrorism

Phil Campion, former British SAS, covers a “bit of history” of the Balken Street Siege on today’s show, which was in 1974-1975 when the IRA were very active with the bombing campaign. Check out the video below.

President Donald Trump believes the United States should focus solely on fighting the Islamic State in Libya. His comments on Thursday in a joint press conference with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni lend themselves to a Trump foreign policy doctrine beginning to coalesce around a powerful military with a willingness to use force, combined with a […]

The United States disclosed on Friday a secret military ground operation that killed an Islamic State operative seen as a close associate of leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and linked to an attack on a Turkish nightclub that left 39 people dead. Abdurakhmon Uzbeki, who was believed to be from Uzbekistan, was killed during the ground […]

Songbirds flitted among the redbud trees. The wind tickled yellow flowers in fields of rapeseed. The medieval church clock clanged on the hour. Otherwise all was still in this one-boulangerie town in the French countryside when Marine Le Pen strode to the lectern and, with the unwavering force of a freight train, vowed to save […]

Marseille, France– On Tuesday, French police stated they arrested two men and found multiple weapons and explosives inside their residence. Authorities believe the two men were planning an attack on the eve of the presidential election. According to Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins, the two men met in prison and converted to radical Islam. The items found in […]

An attorney who represents some of the biggest names in the al Qaeda terror group has revealed that even they are uncomfortable with the rise of the Islamic State and are “disturbed” by the group’s behavior. In an interview with West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center, Bernard Kleinman talked at length about his time representing clients […]

The Tunisian man and failed asylum-seeker who used a semi-truck to plow into crowds of people at a Christmas market in Germany last December received the assignment from Islamic State leadership, according to German magazine Der Spiegel. The terrorist, Anis Amri, had been suspected by German authorities of being linked to the Islamic State, and […]

Four years ago, two brothers attempted to tear the city of Boston apart by planting two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, one of the cities’ most iconic events. The marathon, ran since 1897 celebrates the battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775, the “shots heard ‘round the world” and the beginning […]

It was a little more than six months after the 9/11 attacks when Dr. James E. Mitchell received a phone call from the chief of department that housed the CIA’s operational psychologists. The request to come to the CIA headquarters in Langley wasn’t seemingly out of place, Dr. Mitchell was already an established consultant with […]

BERLIN — German prosecutors requested an arrest warrant Thursday for a 26-year-old Iraqi national with suspected links to the Islamic State group who is being held in connection with a bomb attack on a popular soccer team. The statement said there was no direct proof yet that he was involved in Tuesday’s attack on the […]

Montenegro has charged 14 people — including two Russians and two Montenegrin opposition leaders — over their alleged involvement in an attempted coup in October 2016, the Associated Press reported Thursday. The high court in the capital, Podgorica, said the 14 people were charged with “creating a criminal organization.” The two Russians were also charged with […]

Stockholm, Sweden- A truck has driven into a crowd of people and initial reports have indicated at least three dead. Police have not confirmed the number of casualties yet. A video taken directly after the incident can be seen here or in the tweet embedded below. In the video, the street looks like it is a pedestrian only street, […]