Tag: Terrorism

Tunisia: 3 arrested in alleged terror plot

BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA · May 25, 2014 7:39 pm

FBI Director James Comey recently told the New York Times, "I didn't have anywhere near the appreciation I got after I came into this job just how virulent those affiliates had become. There are both many more than I appreciated, and they are stronger than I appreciated." (AP/Susan Walsh)

The FBI prospers by feeding public safety fears

Steve Chapman · May 25, 2014 6:48 pm

FILE - In this May 23, 2014 file photo, paramilitary policemen with shields and batons patrol near the People's Square in Urumqi, China's northwestern region of Xinjiang. So far this month, police in China's restive western region of Xinjiang have broken up 23 terror and religious extremism groups and caught over 200 suspects, state media reported Monday, May 26. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China offers leniency to suspects after bombing

DIDI TANGLOUISE WATT · May 25, 2014 10:44 am

Iraqi security forces conduct body checks on Shiite pilgrims as they march to the shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, May 24, 2014. Shiite pilgrims are expected to converge on the shrine in northern Baghdad during their annual march to commemorate the eighth-century death of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, a key Shiite saint. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Car bomb at liquor store in northern Iraq kills 12

Washington Examiner · May 25, 2014 7:38 am

Some flowers were put close to the site of a shooting at the Jewish museum in Brussels, Saturday, May 24, 2014. Three people were killed and one seriously injured in a spree of gunfire at the Jewish Museum in Brussels on Saturday, officials said. The attack, which came on the eve of national and European Parliament elections, led officials to raise anti-terror measures.(AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

Official: 2 Israelis killed at Brussels museum

Washington Examiner · May 25, 2014 5:54 am

Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., says his party hasn't ruled out participating in a Republican-created panel to investigate the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, but only if Speaker John Boehner meets several Democratic demands.ÃÂ (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Steny Hoyer lists Democrats’ demands for ‘fair’ Benghazi panel

Sean Lengell · May 20, 2014 6:13 pm

Beltway Confidential

U.S. becoming lone optimist in Libya

Spencer Brown · May 20, 2014 4:00 am

In this courtroom drawing, Egyptian Islamic preacher Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, left, sits in the courtroom of Judge Katherine Forrest, upper right, as Courtroom Deputy Joseph Pecorino reads the jury verdict sheet finding Mustafa guilty in his terrorism trial in New York Monday, May 19, 2014. Referred by prosecutors and defense lawyers alike by his alias, Abu Hamza al-Masri, Mustafa sits next to his defense lawyer Joshua Dratel, center back, who sits next to defense lawyer Jeremy Schneider, far right. In front of them is the prosecution team. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)

National Security

New York jurors follow facts to London imam’s conviction

Larry Neumeister · May 20, 2014 4:00 am

After almost 13 years, it’s time to end Congress’ blanket authorization of force

Gene Healy · May 20, 2014 2:20 am

Smithsonian Exhibit: Since 9/11, Indian Americans Don’t Feel ‘Safe Or Welcome Here’

Michael Warren · May 19, 2014 12:16 pm

Mourners chant slogans against the al-Qaida breakaway group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), while carrying a flag-draped coffin of Ahmed Marzouk an Iraqi officer who was killed, said his family, in a fake checkpoint on Thursday, during his funeral procession in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 16, 2014. Bombings and shootings around Iraq's capital, including a deadly attack involving militants using a fake checkpoint to target army officers, killed and wounded dozens of people on Thursday, officials said. (AP Photo/ Jaber al-Helo)

Bombing north of capital kills 5 people in Iraq

Sameer Yacoub · May 17, 2014 11:02 am

EDS NOTE: RECROP OF NAI113. Security forces secure the scene at the site where two blasts detonated, one in a mini-van used for public transportation, in a market area of Nairobi, Kenya Friday, May 16, 2014. Two blasts hit Kenya's capital on Friday, killing a number of people and injuring many more, in what appeared to be the latest in a string of increasingly frequent terror attacks. (AP Photo)

Bombings kill 10, wound 70 in Kenyan market

Jason Straziuso · May 16, 2014 9:29 pm