terrorism

US police investigate ‘potential hate crime’ after 20 killed in El Paso mass shooting

US police are investigating a "potential hate crime" after a gunman armed with an assault rifle killed 20 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas

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Dozens of Yemen police killed in twin attacks in Aden

Separate attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels and an ISIS suicide bomber killed at least 49 people in Aden, many of them newly trained police cadets

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No prior ISIS link to Sri Lanka Easter attackers, investigator says

The Easter attacks in Sri Lanka were carried out by local islamists inspired by but not linked to Islamic State, a top investigator claimed

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Syria: Bomb explodes outside church in Qamishli Christian neighborhood

A car bomb detonated near a church in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeast Syria, wounding almost a dozen people

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Suspected Tunis suicide bombing plotter killed, ministry says

The suspected mastermind of twin suicide bombings in Tunis was killed when he blew himself up during a police manhunt outside the capital

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Sri Lanka defense secretary and police chief arrested over Easter bombing ‘negligence’

Sri Lanka police arrested their top commander and a former defense chief over alleged failures to prevent the Easter bombings that killed 258 people

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Sri Lanka ex-defense secretary faces charges over security ‘lapses’ before Easter attacks

Sri Lanka's former most senior defense official, Hemasiri Fernando, faces possible criminal charges over "major lapses" linked to the Easter Sunday bombings that killed 258 people

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Syria: HTS rocket fire kills 12 people south of Aleppo

Rocket fire killed 12 civilians in a regime-held village in Syria, state news agency SANA has said blaming al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham

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Saudi Arabia extradites 5 to Sri Lanka in connection with Easter bombings

Five Sri Lankans wanted in connection with the Easter bombings that killed 258 people were arrested in Saudi Arabia and extradited

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New IRA says it planted bomb under Northern Ireland police officer’s car

The New IRA dissident republican group said it put an explosive device found under the car of a Northern Ireland police officer

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