Terrorism

JERUSALEM (AP) — A suspected assailant rammed his car into several pedestrians in east Jerusalem on Friday, killing two people and injuring five others before being shot and killed, Israeli police said, the latest incident as violence rises in the contested capital. The alleged car-ramming took place at a bus stop in Ramot, a Jewish [...]

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection chief patrol agent told lawmakers during a Tuesday Congressional hearing that he has “tremendous concern” that felons and terrorists are among the millions of "gotaways" crossing the southern border into the United States, the New York Post reported. Tucson Sector Chief Patrol Agent John Modlin, who has been with the [...]

A man was arrested after investigators say he crashed his car through the gate at a solar energy plant in Las Vegas, Nevada and then set the vehicle on fire near a transformer at the plant in the beginning of January. Mohammed Reza Mesmarian, 34, told police “I burned it” after he was arrested on [...]

A former New York stockbroker who became an ISIS sniper was convicted Tuesday of providing support and training to the extremist group on battlefields in Syria and Iraq. Ruslan Maratovich Asainov, 46, a U.S. citizen and former resident of Bay Ridge, New York, was found guilty on all five counts, including providing and attempting to [...]

A man charged with attacking police with a machete near New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve was transferred to U.S. custody and made his initial federal court appearance on Monday to face terrorism charges. Trevor Thomas Bickford, handcuffed and shackled at the ankles, slowly shuffled into a Manhattan federal courtroom for an initial [...]

The man arrested for his alleged attempt to firebomb a North Jersey synagogue allegedly had a diagram in his possession showing a target range of 10 miles that included politicians, military, and police, according to federal prosecutors. The evidence was referenced by the state during an initial court appearance on Thursday for the suspect, Nicholas Malindretos, 26, of Clifton, who [...]

A man and woman were arrested and charged in an alleged “hate-fueled” conspiracy to attack the Maryland power grid and leave thousands without electricity. Brandon Clint Russell of Orlando, Florida and Sarah Beth Clendaniel of Catonsville, Maryland have both been charged with conspiracy to destroy an energy facility, the FBI’s Baltimore field office and U.S. [...]

AUSTIN, Texas – Americans in the Lone Star state said they were concerned about who is illegally entering the U.S. after Customs and Border Protection reported a spike in arrests of potential terrorists and sex offenders trying to cross the border. "Yeah, that's very concerning," Melina, a Texas resident, told Fox News. "Sex offenders? That’s [...]

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Federal investigators knew well before 9/11 that Chicago was on Al Qaeda's hit list that fateful day. Afterward, SEAL Team raids on caves in Afghanistan turned up terrorist papers that had Chicago as a 9/11 target. Now, the newly installed special agent in charge of Chicago's FBI division told the I-Team there [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — An Islamic extremist who killed eight people with a speeding truck in a 2017 rampage on a popular New York City bike path was convicted Thursday of 28 federal crimes and could face the death penalty. Jurors deliberated for about seven hours over two days before finding Sayfullo Saipov guilty in [...]