terrorism

What the ‘Vengeance for the Two Sheikhs’ campaign says about new ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi

The killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi does not appear to have reduced ISIS’s capabilities, and new leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi seems to be carrying on his legacy

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Iran designates US military ‘terrorists’ over Soleimani killing

Iran has designated the U.S. armed forces a terrorist group over the killing of top commander General Qassem Soleimani. Iran’s lawmakers on Tuesday, January 7 unanimously approved the bill to designate the U.S. Army and Department of Defense as terrorist organizations, Tasnim news reported. The bill designates U.S. forces, Pentagon employees, affiliated organizations, and those who ordered Soleimani’s death, AFP reported. Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force – the IRGC’s external operations arm – was killed last week in a U.S. drone strike outside Baghdad International Airport. Killed with him was Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the head of the Kataib Hezbollah group and de facto commander of Iraq’s Hashd al-Shaabi militias. In April the Trump administration designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization, the first such designation of a state’s armed forces. The U.S. designated the Quds Force a foreign terrorist organization a decade ago. Also on Tuesday, Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said 13 “revenge” scenarios had been drafted in response to the Soleimani’s killing. Soleimani was to be buried in his hometown of Kerman on Tuesday. The general’s killing has sparked a new crisis in the region, with Iran and its surrogate forces vowing revenge on …

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Russian security service member killed in shooting near FSB headquarters

A member of the Russian Federal Security Service was killed in a shootout near the FSB headquarters in central Moscow

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Indonesia to deploy 200,000 security personnel to thwart Christmas attacks

Indonesia will deploy nearly 200,000 security personnel nationwide ahead of Christmas to guard against potential terror attacks

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VIDEO: Somali security forces retake Mogadishu hotel from Shabaab militants, at least 10 dead

Gunmen opened fire outside a hotel near Mogadishu's presidential palace on Tuesday night, as police fought back the attackers

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The threat from ISIS is closer to home than ever

The London Bridge attack shows that while ISIS has been weakened on the ground in Syria and Iraq, its capacity to launch terrorist attacks in the West is stronger than ever

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Morocco and Spain arrest 4 suspected ISIS supporters in joint raids

Moroccan police said they arrested three suspected supporters of Islamic State, in a joint operation with Spain

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Ireland to charge ex-Defence Forces member Lisa Smith with joining ISIS

Ireland's police force will charge a former member of the armed services, Lisa Smith, with terrorist offenses for traveling to join ISIS

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Unidentified gunmen attack Burkina Faso church, killing 14

Fourteen people were killed in an attack on a church in Hantoukoura, eastern Burkina Faso, where places of worship have suffered a string assaults

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French prosecutors charge 14 people over 2015 Paris attacks

French prosecutors indicted 14 people and called for 20 suspects to go on trial over the 2015 ISIS attacks in Paris

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