PARIS (AP) — Europol says armed jihadis plotted or carried out more attacks in Europe last year than in 2016, with a total of 33 attacks either planned or executed. A report the law enforcement agency issued Wednesday said 10
Segregated communities are “breeding grounds” for Islamic extremism, and the risk of attack from overseas has been replaced by the threat posed by homegrown terrorists, a senior counter-terrorism officer has said.
On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security renewed its standing warning against homegrown terrorism, adding details about new threats that were not covered in the previous iteration and warning that America faces “one of the most serious terror threat environments since the 9/11 attacks.”
Battled-hardened “holy warriors” who traveled from outside the Middle East to join the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria are expected to “wreak murderous havoc” in the United States and other countries once they return home, warns the secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The 2017 terrorism forecast for the United States and the rate at which Americans are being radicalized at home is “alarming,” according to a monthly assessment by the House Homeland Security Committee.
The federal case against an Air Force veteran accused of trying to join the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is a “fantasy,” the defendant’s attorney argues during trial.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The latest annual Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) indicates that 2016 may be the worst year in history for terrorism, primarily at the hands of Sunni extremist groups such as the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and al Qaeda (AQ).
Republican presidential candidate Florida Senator Marco Rubio stated that he would visit a mosque as president and blasted President Obama for promoting “this fiction that there’s widespread, systemic discrimination against Muslim-Americans” while Christian groups “are being discriminated against by the
