Tag: Terrorism

The State Department's Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications has hired a contractor to provide it with six staffers toÃÂ conduct "a digital English-language campaign designed to counter propaganda by al Qaeda and other extremist groups" outside the U.S., according to Fed Biz Opps, a website for government contract solicitations and related information.ÃÂ (iStock Image)

State Department going online to counter terrorism messages

Kelly Cohen · June 25, 2014 5:02 pm

Gravestones for fallen German soldiers of both World Wars standing at the cemetery in Dortmund, Germany, Monday, April 28, 2014. The First World War began on July 1914 and lasted until November 1918. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Is the rise of ISIS World War I’s next phase?

Austin Bay · June 25, 2014 2:56 pm

Egyptian security forces and civilians inspect damages after an explosion hit a subway station in Shubra el-Khemia northern Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. Four minor explosions struck subway stations in Cairo on Wednesday, wounding two people and causing widespread panic among morning commuters, officials said. (AP Photo/Magdy Ebrahim, El Shorouk Newspaper) EGYPT OUT

4 blasts hit Cairo subway stations, court, wound 3

Maggie Michael · June 25, 2014 10:42 am

FILE - With an image of the former World Trade Center seen through the reflective windows of the 9/11 Memorial Museum, some of the first public visitors can be seen arriving at the site in New York in this Wednesday, May 21, 2014 file photo. Organizers say over 300,000 people have visited the Sept. 11 museum since it opened little more than a month ago, and that has exceeded their expectations. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

9/11 museum counts 300K visitors since May opening

JENNIFER PELTZRACHELLE BLIDNER · June 25, 2014 5:08 am

UN: Ivory, charcoal funds criminal, terror groups

Jason Straziuso · June 24, 2014 7:41 pm

Lebanese army and citizens gather at the site of a car bombing in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. A powerful car bomb explosion rocked a neighborhood south of the Lebanese capital Tuesday, causing several casualties, a Lebanese security official and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

1 killed, 20 hurt in overnight bombing in Lebanon

Zeina Karam · June 24, 2014 5:53 pm

China: 32 terror groups broken up in crackdown

China: 32 terror groups broken up in crackdown

Washington Examiner · June 23, 2014 9:57 am

Lebanese police intelligence gather outside a hotel after security forces raided there in Beirut's Hamra district, Lebanon, Friday, June 20, 2014. Security forces raided the hotel over suspected "terrorist cells" inside it, a police official said. In eastern Lebanon, a suicide bomber detonated his vehicle Friday near a police checkpoint, killing a few people amid heightened concerns of renewed violence, the country's state-run news agency and security officials said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Bombing, arrests spark fear in Lebanon

Zeina Karam · June 20, 2014 8:55 pm

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Beltway Confidential

Naming the Islamist militants in the news: ISIS or ISIL?

Charles Hoskinson · June 20, 2014 7:51 pm

President Barack Obama speaks to members of the media about the situation in Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. In the strongest sign yet of U.S. doubts about Iraq's stability, the Obama administration is weighing whether to press the Shiite prime minister in Baghdad to step down in a last-ditch effort to prevent disgruntled Sunnis from igniting a full-scale civil war. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

5 facts about the new U.S. mission in Iraq

Susan Crabtree · June 20, 2014 12:55 pm

Rep. Robert Pittenger, R-N.C., said recent developments in Iraq and Syria -- where radical Islamists have gained ground -- are cause for some concern. (AP File)

Beltway Confidential

Rep. Robert Pittenger works to reassure America’s allies post-Edward Snowden

Spencer Brown · June 19, 2014 10:01 pm

Afghanistan's presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah, center, waits for journalists before a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Afghanistan's political crisis is showing no signs of easing as presidential candidate Abdullah said the electoral commission has ignored his demands and he will not resume cooperation with them. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Taliban strike NATO trucks in east Afghanistan

RAHIM FAIEZAMIR SHAH · June 19, 2014 8:13 pm