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A 70-year-old Christian man’s refusal to sell his home in Pakistan prompted Muslim arsonists to burn down the property while everyone inside, including his daughter and four-year-old grandson, were sleeping.

French authorities have been accused of a cover-up after claiming New Year’s Eve “went off without any major incident” despite more than 1,000 cars being torched in arson attacks.

Israel’s minister for public security said on Wednesday that forty to fifty percent of the fires that broke out across Israel last week were the result of arson.

TEL AVIV – Fires in nine localities across Israel have been deemed acts of arson and possibly terrorism, rendering victims eligible to receive compensation from state emergency funds for victims of terror.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that there was “evidence of arson” relating to the wildfires sweeping across Israel. “Our first goal is saving lives and I ask residents to do exactly what the authorities ask of

Speaking out in a frank interview with a local Swedish newspaper, a young migrant has explained how boredom and racism has driven him and his friends to violently vandalising property for amusement.

Six migrants and a guard suffered smoke inhalation after a migrant in a German asylum home attempted to burn down the building.

The illegal alien had been arrested in 2012 near the Southern California border for breaking into the country, but released a week later they released him, even though he lied to them about his age so he could be processed as an “unaccompanied minor.” He stopped checking in with ICE in 2014.

A 10-year-old boy continues to fight for his life in a San Antonio hospital after being seriously burned in a fire set by another minor. That child was taken into custody and charged with first degree arson, a felony. However, authorities now say the incident does not appear to be intentional.

A fire broke out at the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce in Florida shortly after midnight on Monday morning, evidently serious enough for flames to be seen from outside the building. This was the mosque attended by Omar Mateen, the mass murderer who attacked the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.

A Florida woman who allegedly set fire to a car thinking it was her ex-boyfriend’s is now in police custody after video footage caught her in the act.

Two migrants set fire to their asylum accommodation in Germany after smoking a hookah water pipe which resulted in the hot coal setting the home ablaze. An asylum home in the German town of Gößweinstein in Upper Franconia has been completely destroyed. The

The suspect charged with murdering five people Monday via arson was “in the United States illegally.”

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department investigators began a search Tuesday morning for a person suspected of throwing a lit object through the glass of Kardashian sisters-owned clothing store DASH Boutique in Beverly Grove Monday night.

A 27-year-old security guard rammed the car of his ex-girlfriend on the outskirts of Rome, chased her down when she tried to flee, doused her with gasoline and burned her alive because she wouldn’t get back together with him.

A group of Tunisian migrants set fire to the main pavilion in a Lampedusa refugee welcome center Tuesday night, causing severe damage, after learning they would be repatriated to their home country, according to reports.

The man charged with setting a fire that burned down the massive downtown Los Angeles Da Vinci complex in 2014, causing $100 million in damage, allegedly claimed to have been inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement.

According to an article in the New York Post, some members of the Christian Orthodox community believe the massive fire that destroyed a historic cathedral in Manhattan was set deliberately, as part of an organized attack that destroyed three other churches around the world on Orthodox Easter Sunday.

HOUSTON, Texas — The Muslim charged with arson of his own mosque on Christmas Day is going before a judge to determine if there is enough evidence to continue holding him. An examining trial has been set for Wednesday, January

A Walnut Creek man described by his estranged wife as displaying “erratic behavior” has been jailed in connection with fires set to cars and homes of men that had served as his groomsmen four years before. Van Buskirk, 33, has

The Muslim charged with setting fire to his own mosque turned over his passport and the judge set his bond at $150,000 on Monday. He remains in jail.

A Texas judge has found probable cause to hold a Muslim man who is charged with setting the Christmas Day arson fire of his own mosque. He will be held over the weekend pending a second bond hearing set for Monday.

Using surveillance video from other area businesses to identify the arsonist, Gary Nathaniel Moore, 37, was arrested and charged with starting the Christmas Day fire that devastated a Houston, Texas mosque. Moore is a devout Muslim who attended this same

Police in Hope, Arkansas, believe an arsonist set fire to former President Bill Clinton’s childhood home on Friday. According to Hope Police Department Chief J.R. Wilson, early Friday morning a motorist spotted the fire at the Clinton Birthplace National Historic Site.

Insisting that no “hate crime” is suspected, police in St. Louis arrested an African-American man for a series of arson attacks on African-American churches perpetrated earlier this month.

In a rare instance of a conviction being overturned because the defendant was denied his 6th Amendment Rights, a man who conspired to burn down his restaurant and collect the insurance money no longer has prison time to serve.

Many of the attacks on churches have been religiously or racially motivated, the Center notes, such as a string of arson attacks at six predominantly black churches in the Saint Louis area this month, although federal law enforcement agencies have ruled these fires to be unrelated and police are as yet unwilling to say whether the attacks are racially driven. Acts of arson are also significantly more common in churches than in other structures, and in recent years only 5-10% of residential and non-residential fires were intentionally set, as compared to the 51% of church fires that were deemed acts of arson.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police say another church property has been set on fire in the St. Louis area, the seventh such blaze in two weeks.

After receiving substantial blowback about their piece on a mob of Palestinians setting fire to a Jewish holy site in the West Bank, CNN has stealth-edited its story substantially to more accurately represent what actually happened on the ground late Thursday.

A man from Iowa has been arrested for an unrelated charge but is a suspect in connection with a fire set at the Texas State Capitol on August 7th. The man, 38-year-old Michael Patrick Wagner, was arrested this week and is

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is seeking help from the public in identifying a “person of interest” (shown above) in connection with a car fire on the grounds of the Texas Capitol. The vehicle had been identified earlier on Friday by a Twitter user as belonging to a Texas House Sergeant at Arms employee, James “Trey” Morgan.

Two churches in a rural community near the Texas border were intentionally set on fire almost simultaneously. Investigators of the crime are puzzled about the motive for the fires.

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has arrested a suspect, Dawud Abdulwali, 56, on arson charges connected with the massive downtown fire last December that consumed the Da Vinci apartment complex. The Los Angeles Times reports that Abdulwali was arrested Tuesday morning during a traffic stop, and after a lengthy investigation.

HOUSTON, Texas – An arrest was announced at 6 p.m. Monday night at the Houston Fire Department Arson Headquarters in connection with the February 13th Quba Islamic Institute fire. Darryl Ferguson, age 55 of Houston, has been charged with arson.

LOS ANGELES, California — The reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) who caused a massive downtown Los Angeles fire that destroyed the 7-story Da Vinci apartment complex, melted freeway signs, and damaged local buildings late last year is now set at an unprecedented $170,000.

Three major fires have been reported in Oxfordshire within nine minutes of each other, after what Police suspect to be a spate of arson attacks. The buildings attacked were a thatched cottage, a funeral directors and one of the major