terrorism
A 75-year-old Pakistani man was released from the Guantanamo Bay detention center and repatriated to his home country. The man, Saifullah Paracha has been detained at Guantanamo since 2003 for his alleged ties to Al Qaeda, according to NBC News. He has now been “reunited with his family” in Pakistan. “We are glad that a […]
President Joe Biden announced Monday that al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan over the weekend, per NBC News. “Justice has been delivered. And this terrorist leader is no more,” Biden said during his address from the White House. “No matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide—if you are […]
Twenty men who committed a series of deadly shooting and bombings across Paris, France in November, 2015 have been convicted for their roles in the attacks. Per the New York Times, the sole surviving member of the ISIS terrorists who carried out the attacks has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of […]
A shooting at a pub in Oslo, Norway has left two dead and 14 injured late Friday. NBC News reports that a shooter opened fire at the London Pub, a nightclub and bar known to cater to the city’s LGBTQ+ community. Authorities arrested a Norwegian citizen who is originally from Iran; the suspect has been […]
A new report from the federal government, released Tuesday, details the increasing concerns surrounding the threat of terrorism from men often referred to as “involuntary celibates,” i.e. incels. Per CBS News, the report was spurred by an investigation into the red flag moments that preceded a fatal shooting at a Florida yoga studio in 2018. […]
The Supreme Court has reinstated the death sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man behind the 2013 bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The court ended up ruling 6-3 this week that the capital sentence being tossed in 2020, over jury selection issues and excluded evidence, was the wrong move, per CBS News. Justice Clarence […]
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Barack Obama issued a statement Saturday morning, reflecting on the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. “Today we honor the nearly 3,000 men, women, and children who died on September 11, 2001, and even more who lost their lives in service to our country in the two decades since,” Obama wrote in an Instagram post. […]
Sara Erwin, a police officer in Hopewell Township, New Jersey, has been fired after she compared the Black Lives Matter movement to “terrorists” in a post on social media. NJ.com reports that Erwin was fired for the post she made on Facebook, while officer Sgt. Mandy Grey will be suspended for six months for replying to a comment. […]
The Secretary of Homeland Security said Monday night that an internal review focused on domestic violent extremism threats within the department is being launched. In a memo first reported on by CBS News, DHS secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas pointed to “recent events,” including the fatal Capitol riot in January, as having highlighted what he described […]
