Terrorism

US leads training exercises in Africa amid focus on Sahel

THIES, Senegal (AP) — Crouching in the sparse brush, maneuvering into formations through a divide, and then shooting at ...
7:43 22 February 2022

Watchdog toughens global financial scrutiny of Iran

PARIS (AP) — An international agency monitoring terrorism funding announced tough new financial scrutiny of Iran on Frid...
14:48 21 February 2022

Turkish court to issue verdict in rights activists’ trial

ISTANBUL (AP) — A group of human rights activists were poised Wednesday to make final statements in their own defense be...
7:18 19 February 2022

Trump says U.S. operation killed al-Qaida leader in Yemen

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that the U.S. at his direction has conducted a counter-terrorism operation in Yemen that killed Qass...
23:39 6 February 2022

Amnesty finds Saudi anti-terror court a weapon of repression

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia has used a secretive court established to try terrorism cases as "a weapon of repression" to imprison peace...
7:19 6 February 2022

Man wearing fake bomb stabs 2 in London and is shot to death

LONDON — Police in London say a man who strapped on a fake bomb and stabbed two people on a London street before being shot to death by police was rec...
22:30 2 February 2022

Judge to sentence Coast Guard officer accused of terror plot

GREENBELT, Md. — A Coast Guard lieutenant accused of stockpiling guns and drafting a hit list of prominent Democrats and TV journalists is scheduled t...
6:03 31 January 2022

Militant sentenced to 19 years for role in Benghazi attacks

NEW YORK — A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a Libyan militant to more than 19 years in prison for his role in the 2012 Benghazi attacks that kill...
21:42 23 January 2022

Pentagon adding to restrictions on foreign military students

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is imposing new restrictions and controls on all international military students at American bases, including barring them f...
21:39 17 January 2022

US sends home nearly two dozen Saudi cadets after shooting

WASHINGTON — The U.S. sent home 21 Saudi military students following an investigation into a deadly shooting last month by one of their fellow trainee...
2:23 14 January 2022

Somali mourners march against extremist blast that killed 79

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Hundreds of mourners and government officials in Mogadishu gathered at the capital's Police School on Thursday to mourn the 79 pe...
16:14 2 January 2022

Russian court jails 2 terrorism suspects arrested on US tip

MOSCOW — A St. Petersburg court on Monday ordered the detention of two Russian men who were arrested on a tip provided by the U.S. and are suspected o...
20:21 30 December 2022

Official: Base shooter watched shooting videos before attack

PENSACOLA, Fla. — A US official says the Saudi student who fatally shot three people at a Florida naval base had hosted a dinner party the night befor...
17:38 7 December 2021

Saudi student opens fire at Florida Naval base, killing 3

PENSACOLA, Fla. — An aviation student from Saudi Arabia opened fire in a classroom at the Naval Air Station Pensacola on Friday morning, an attack the...
22:19 6 December 2021

US citizen raised in San Diego faces new terrorism charges

SAN DIEGO — A U.S. citizen on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List has been charged with additional crimes involving ties to Somalia’s al-Shabaab rebe...
0:58 3 December 2021

Vigil for London stabbing victims as politicians trade blame

LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and main opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn paused Monday to honor the two people killed in th...
18:06 2 December 2021

Londoners fought back to curtail carnage in bridge attack

LONDON — Even in times of shared, senseless tragedy, an uplifting moment sometimes emerges.
0:47 1 December 2021

Focus on early release of terror convict in London stabbings

LONDON — UK counterterrorism police on Saturday searched for clues into how a man imprisoned for terrorism offenses before his release last year manag...
16:33 30 November 2021

UK police: Bridge attacker had been jailed for terror crimes

LONDON — A man wearing a fake explosive vest stabbed several people Friday in London, killing two in what police are treating as a terrorist attack be...
1:14 30 November 2021

Assad: IS members in Syrian Kurds jails to stand local trial

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian President Bashar Assad said in remarks published Wednesday that members of the Islamic State group held in the country will s...
14:34 27 November 2021

Australian bank Westpac faces massive fine for breaches

PERTH, Australia — Major Australian bank Westpac is facing a potentially massive fine after being accused of 23 million breaches of the anti-money lau...
10:33 20 November 2021

Hong Kong police say protesters out of control, deny curfew

HONG KONG — Hong Kong police warned protesters on Thursday that they were moving “one step closer to terrorism” by sinking the city into chaos, as rio...
10:13 14 November 2021

As Hong Kong descends into chaos, China mulls its options

BEIJING — A sharp escalation of violence in Hong Kong is once again raising the question of how China's central government will respond: Will it inter...
9:19 13 November 2021

N. Korea says US terrorism blacklist hinders nuke diplomacy

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea says the U.S. redesignation of Pyongyang as a sponsor of terrorism is dimming prospects for nuclear diplomacy between...
2:01 5 November 2021

Acting homeland security secretary finally agrees to testify

WASHINGTON — Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan has agreed to testify Wednesday before a House committee on global terrorism.
23:30 29 October 2021

Acting Homeland Security Secretary McAleenan fights subpoena

WASHINGTON — Kevin McAleenan, the acting Homeland Security secretary, is challenging a subpoena to appear before a congressional committee to discuss ...
0:44 26 October 2021