DC Metro Transit Cop Arrested for Allegedly Trying to Assist ISIS

DC Metro Transit Cop Arrested for Allegedly Trying to Assist ISIS

A veteran police officer with one of the nation’s most prominent transit systems has been arrested for allegedly trying to help ISIS, ABC News has learned exclusively. Authorities believe that while working for the Metro Transit Police Department around Washington, D.C. – a community he swore to protect – the officer was also trying to assist ISIS […]

Belgium arrests 2 brothers suspected of plotting attack

Belgium arrests 2 brothers suspected of plotting attack

Two brothers have been arrested in Belgium on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office announced Saturday. Nourredine H., 33, and his brother Hamza H. were taken in for questioning following police searches Friday evening in the city of Liege and the Mons region. A Belgian judge will decide Saturday whether the […]

ISIS terrorist bragged about plans before Normandy attack, report says

ISIS terrorist bragged about plans before Normandy attack, report says

The ISIS terrorist who slit a priest’s throat and used a nun as a human shield during an attack in France on Tuesday bragged about his intended assault to an audience of up to 200 people on an encrypted communications app nearly a week before the spree. The audio files recorded by Adel Kermiche for […]

Catholic priest’s throat slit by two Islamic State terrorists in France

Catholic priest’s throat slit by two Islamic State terrorists in France

An elderly Catholic priest is the latest victim of the Islamic State in Europe. Two Islamic State terrorists killed Father Jacques Hamel, 84 at the Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in Rouen, France. The two men entered the church during Mass with knives and took the priest, a nun, and at least three parishioners hostage. One of the hostages is said to be in critical condition. A nun that was held […]

Iraq finally bans fake bomb detectors after July 3 blast

Iraq finally bans fake bomb detectors after July 3 blast

For nearly a decade, anyone driving through one of Baghdad’s many checkpoints was subjected to a search by a soldier pointing a security wand at their vehicle and watching the device intently to see if its antenna moved. If it pointed at the car, it had supposedly detected a possible bomb. The wands were completely […]

27 year old Syrian refugee identified as the suicide bomber in Ansbach, Germany

27 year old Syrian refugee identified as the suicide bomber in Ansbach, Germany

At approximately 10:00 pm local time, a 27-year-old Syrian refugee detonated a suicide bomb packed with explosives and metal used in “wood manufacturing” (probably wood screws or bolts) inside a restaurant in Ansbach, Germany. According to the Bavarian interior minister Joachim Hermann, the man was denied asylum a year ago and has tried to commit suicide twice since then. The suicide bomber appears […]

Fatal machete attack in Germany by Syrian refugee

Fatal machete attack in Germany by Syrian refugee

An eye witness told the German newspaper, “The attacker was completely out of his mind. He ran with the machete behind a police patrol car.” He said a passing BMW managed to run him over and afterwards he “lay prostrate on the ground and didn’t move”.

Is al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria no longer a ‘sideshow’?

Is al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria no longer a ‘sideshow’?

The Obama administration has begun to see Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, as a global threat that could eventually rival the Islamic State, echoing a Russian argument that it has long resisted. A new U.S. proposal to coordinate counterterrorism operations in Syria with Russia, discussed by President Obama last week with Russian President Vladi­mir […]

German Axe terrorist sent suicide video to ISIS

German Axe terrorist sent suicide video to ISIS

Before 17-year-old Muhammad Riyad went on an axe rampage on Monday, slashing at least 20 passengers on a German train, he sent a suicide video to ISIS. In the clip, which the jihadist group’s news agency, Amaq, released on Tuesday, Riyad calls himself as a soldier of the caliphate while brandishing a knife. “I want to […]