Tag: Terrorist

He was a body builder and a security guard, a religious man who attended the local mosque and who at one point expressed interest in becoming a police officer, though he never pursued it. Early Sunday, 29-year-old Omar Mateen gunned down 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, police said. Mateen was the son […]

A tweet threatening Brazil sent in November by Maxime Hauchard, a French national identified as an executioner in Islamic State propaganda videos, was genuine.

The tweet read: ‘Brazil, you are our next target.’

Omar Mateen of Port Saint Lucie, Florida, came to the attention of federal authorities twice prior to being identified as the gunman in the Orlando nightclub mass shooting, a senior law enforcement source told The Daily Beast. Mateen 53 people and shot more than 100 in total at the Pulse gay nightclub early Sunday morning, […]

The FALN clemencies provide a disturbing example of how the abuse or misuse of presidential prerogative, under the guise of policy, can be put in service of the personal and private activities of the president’s spouse — and beyond the reach of meaningful congressional oversight.

Daesh used more than 30 car bombs in its Ramadi offensive. Many of these involved armored U.S. HMMWVs and some of the bombs were large enough to level an entire city block.

The CIA considered him a senior al-Queda member, but the Senate report said that was unfounded.

Can you predict who is a murderer just by looking at their face? What about a pedophile? A software company now says it can, and it claims it is able to identify terrorists purely by their facial features. Turning the old idiom that “you can’t judge a book by its cover” on its head, the […]

Ambassador Kevin Vickers is also a former member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who stopped the 2014 attack on the Canadian Parliament.

Belgian prosecutors say they have detained four suspected Islamic State group recruiters, who they say may have planned new attacks in the country. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement Wednesday that all four were charged with participating in the activities of a terrorist group. Two were ordered arrested by an investigating judge, one […]

The U.S. drone strike that killed the Taliban’s leader has also set up a potential leadership struggle between two of the terror group’s up-and-comers — and may signal more attacks on Western targets. When the Taliban issued a statement Wednesday confirming that its top man, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, was killed in a recent U.S. strike, […]

The substance police officers found when they raided terror suspect Samir O.’s home in April, was not explosives, but shwarma seasoning, O.’s lawyer Ed Manders said to the Telegraaf. Footage of O. and three other suspects’ arrests were broadcast on Dutch television program Onder de Radar earlier this week. The program reported that they formed a […]

A Sydney teenager has been arrested on suspicion of preparing to commit a terrorist attack and trying to travel to Syria. Police said an attack was “imminent” when they arrested the Macquarie Park man, 18, on Tuesday. The teenager’s Macquarie Park home, where he lives with his family was raided by police on Tuesday. Australian […]