MADRID (AP) – A man was arrested Friday for alleged links to the extremist cell in last month’s attacks in Barcelona and a nearby town that killed 16 people, Spain’s Interior Ministry said. The 24-year-old suspect of Moroccan origin purchased
The Vatican’s Secretary of State said that recent Islamic State threats against Pope Francis are worrisome, especially because of the “senseless hatred” they embody.
Islamic State terrorists released a video this week celebrating the van attack in Barcelona, Spain, and threatening to conquer all of “al-Andalus,” the Arabic name for what Islamic State terrorists see as Muslim Spain.
MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities shared information with Belgium more than a year ago about the alleged cell leader in last week’s Spain attacks, but didn’t have any details at the time to indicate he was dangerous, officials said Thursday.
Conservative Hungary has declared that EU politicians not up to the task of securing the continent’s safety “have no place among the leaders of Europe” following recent terror attacks.
BARCELONA (AFP) – Barcelona will boost police patrols at tourist sites including the iconic Sagrada Familia church and major sports and cultural events in the wake of last week’s deadly vehicle attacks in Spain, officials said Wednesday.
A Moroccan arrested in connection with the Barcelona terror attacks has said his Islamist cell aimed to kill hundreds and strike numerous iconic Christian and tourists sites.
MADRID (AP) — An extremist cell was preparing bombs for an imam who planned to blow himself up at a Barcelona monument, a key suspect in the attacks that killed 15 people in northeastern Spain told a judge Tuesday, according to a judicial official.
Reports suggest Abdelbaki Es Satty, the imam thought to have acted as the Barcelona terror attack’s mastermind, should have been deported from Spain in 2014 after completing a prison sentence — but judges accepted this would breach his human rights.
Senior members of the Polish government have warned the European Union that the Islamist terror attack in Barcelona is further proof that encouraging millions of migrants to settle in its territory has undermined public safety.
The imam thought to have masterminded the deadly Barcelona terror attacks shared a flat with an al Qaeda terror recruiter and had links to the 2004 Islamist bombings in Madrid, the Spanish press has reported.
The suspected terrorist driver in the Barcelona van attack is thought to have used Europe’s open borders to leave Spain and go on the run.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish authorities confirmed on Monday the identity of the driver of the deadly van attack in Barcelona and said that he is the last member of the 12-man Islamic extremist cell still at large.
The Islamic terrorists who carried out a killing rampage in Barcelona earlier this week had plans to blow up the iconic Catholic basilica of la Sagrada Familia, according to new reports.
RIPOLL (SPAIN) (AFP) – In the Spanish border town of Ripoll, everyone knows each other — making it all the more shocking to residents that jihadists believed responsible for this week’s deadly twin attacks lived among them.
BARCELONA — A police official in Spain says an imam whose home was searched as part of the investigation into two deadly vehicle attacks is believed to be the radicalizing force behind the cell of young men — and is
British and Spanish authorities are concentrating on North Africa and people of migrant background from that region in their efforts to prevent further Islamist attacks after the atrocity in Barcelona this week.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Philippines government says a child missing after a vehicle plowed into pedestrians in Barcelona is the 7-year-old son of a Filipino woman who had been living in Australia.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Catalan police say they are carrying out controlled explosions in the town where an extremist cell plotted the attacks in Barcelona and a seaside resort.
Breitbart London Editor in Chief Raheem Kassam has warned Americans that Islamist terror in Europe is reaching “epidemic” proportions because No Go Zones and illegal immigration has not been addressed.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Tourists and Barcelona residents tentatively returned to Las Ramblas on Friday morning for a subdued stroll down the leafy boulevard, a day after a van attack filled it with fear and bloodshed.
BARECLONA, Spain (AP) — When crowds in downtown Barcelona fell silent for one minute Friday to honor the victims of the terrorist attack in the city, one thing was conspicuously absent: any reference to Catalan’s burgeoning independence drive.
United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday confirmed the death of at least one American in Thursday’s terrorist attacks in Spain and said there is still work being done to confirm “injuries and deaths of others.”
The Barcelona Islamist terrorists could have massacred hundreds more if their original plans had worked out, potentially including a deadly butane gas bomb loaded in a van.
Contents: Barcelona attackers apparently had multiple coordinated attacks planned; ISIS takes credit for the Barcelona attack; White House officials appear to differ on North Korea military option
An Australian woman cheated death for the third time in three months when she narrowly avoided being directly caught up in the Islamist terror attack that convulsed Barcelona on Thursday.
The CIA allegedly warned Barcelona police two months ago that the city’s popular tourist area, Las Ramblas, could be the target of a terrorist attack.
Spain suffered four incidents believed to be related to terrorism, including two deadly attacks, in little over 24 hours between Wednesday and Thursday, which have left 13 victims dead, dozens injured, and as many as six suspected terrorists dead.
On the last stop of Vice President Mike Pence’s four country tour of South America, he reaffirmed President Donald Trump’s condemnation of the terror attack in Spain and offered assistance from the United States to Spain to “find and punish those responsible.”
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Wolf,” anchor Wolf Blitzer stated that there will be questions about whether the Barcelona terror attack was a copycat of the Charlottesville, Virginia car attack. CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Scuitto said, “[I]n light
Spanish police have confirmed a truck has struck a crowd on a popular tourist street in central Barcelona, with local media claiming there are up to a dozen injured.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Around a hundred Barcelona residents gathered on Saturday along the Spanish city’s beach to protest the unchecked growth of mass tourism to the popular vacation destination. They argue that the influx of tourists has increased the
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A huge fire at a music festival in Spain forced the evacuation of over 20,000 concertgoers and incinerated the event’s stage in Barcelona, the regional government said Sunday.
MADRID (AP) — Emergency services say 40 people received medical treatment after a morning commuter train they were traveling on crashed into the buffers in a station in northeastern Barcelona early Friday
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, declared last week that he supports the secession of Catalonia from Spain.
Hundreds of posters displayed in a migrant-dominated part of Barcelona are urging Muslim men to marry Spanish women in a bid to spread Islam, and inviting members of the community to an “information meeting”.
BARCELONA (AFP) – A Swede who took police on a high-speed chase through Barcelona at the wheel of a stolen truck full of gas cylinders had partied hard the previous night, local authorities said Wednesday.
Police in Barcelona fired gunshots Tuesday to stop a man who stole a butane gas truck and drove it at high speed against traffic on a city highway, ramming several cars along the way, a police spokeswoman said. Authorities ruled out terrorism as a motive.
Thousands of protesters marched Saturday in Barcelona to demand that Spain’s conservative-led government increase its efforts to take in refugees from war-torn countries like Syria.
European Union foreign policy czar Federica Mogherini said on Monday that embassies of European countries and of the European Union will remain in Tel Aviv even if US President Donald Trump goes ahead with his plan to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem.
