Tag: Terrorism

In this photo, a police van leaves the back entrance of Westminster Magistrates Court in London on Friday, June 23, 2017. British authorities charged Darren Osborne with terrorism-inspired murder and attempted murder in connection with a truck attack on a crowd of Muslim worshippers near two north London mosques, and a Crown Court on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018, later found Osborne guilty of murder and attempted murder. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Beltway Confidential

The UK just convicted an anti-Muslim terrorist

Tom Rogan · February 1, 2018 7:03 pm

Is Trump really hoping for a major terrorist attack so that he can take control? (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Beltway Confidential

Who’s ready for another Trump scare headline?

Becket Adams · January 31, 2018 8:31 pm

The government designated Ismail Haniyeh, who was elected to lead the terrorist group's political bureau in May, as a specially designated global terrorist, along with three others: Harakat al-Sabireen, Liwa al Thawra and Harakat Sawa'd Misr. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

National Security

State Department sanctions Iran-backed Palestinian terrorists

Joel Gehrke · January 31, 2018 5:40 pm

President Trump's speech was heavy on illegal immigration, one of his defining campaign issues, the threat of Islamic terrorism and international trade. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Media confused after Trump pushes agenda he was elected to enact

Eddie Scarry · January 31, 2018 12:38 pm

President Trump delivered his first State of the Union address Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress. (Win McNamee/Pool via AP)

Making America strong again

Washington Examiner · January 31, 2018 5:49 am

Trump's executive order could allow Jim Mattis to again send terror suspects aligned with the Islamic State and other groups to Guantanamo Bay, where their legal fate would remain uncertain and their detention indefinite. (AP Photo/Ben Fox)

National Security

Trump signs order to keep Guantanamo Bay prison open

Travis J. Tritten · January 31, 2018 3:23 am

It was revealed on Sunday that the fitness app Strava had inadvertently released the location of some covert American military bases where military personnel who used the app had exercised. (screenshot)

National Security

Fitness app announces review of privacy settings after location data reveals secret military base locations

Diana Stancy Correll · January 30, 2018 5:56 am

Donnie Cardenas recovers from the flu at the Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, Calif. The San Diego County resident said he was battling a heavy cough for days before a spike in his temperature sent him into the emergency room on Jan. 10. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Congress looks to reauthorize pandemic program as flu cases swell

Kimberly Leonard · January 30, 2018 5:01 am

"Since World War II, we've had three Democratic supermajorities in the Senate. The first gave us the New Deal, the second gave us the Great Society, the third gave us Obamacare and Dodd-Frank," said Sen. Ted Cruz. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Ted Cruz touts his ‘relatively unusual position in the Senate’

Timothy P. Carney · January 30, 2018 5:01 am

Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2011, attacks on the U.S., Mexico said it would put Mexican security agents on various flights. However, U.S. officials were barred from boarding Mexico's commercial flights. (Susana Gonzalez/Bloomberg)

National Security

US and Mexico weighing whether federal air marshals could be placed on commercial cross-border flights: Report

Diana Stancy Correll · January 30, 2018 3:08 am

"They're killing people left and right. Innocent people are being killed left and right, bombing in the middle of children, in the middle of families, bombing, killing all over Afghanistan," President Trump said before a meeting with United Nations Security Council ambassadors at the White House. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

National Security

Trump: ‘We don’t want to talk with the Taliban’

Sarah Bedford · January 29, 2018 6:03 pm

The Counterinsurgent

Ann Marlowe · January 28, 2018 2:08 am