ISTANBUL – Turkey declared a national day of mourning Sunday after twin blasts in Istanbul killed 38 people and wounded 155 others near a soccer stadium the latest large-scale assault to traumatize a nation confronting an array of security threats.
An explosion inside Cairo’s Coptic cathedral killed at least 22 people and wounded 35, Egypt’s state television said, in the second deadly attack to hit the Egyptian capital in two days.
At least 13 people were killed Saturday after a car bomb detonated in Istanbul Saturday night, shaking buildings in the area.
The Obama administration requested in April that a Kenyan Islamic terrorist, jailed at Guantanamo Bay since 2007 be transferred to an Israeli facility and tried by Israel, according to a Friday report in the Miami Herald.
Britain faces an “unprecedented” terror threat that will not subside until the Syrian civil war ends, the head of foreign intelligence service MI6 said Thursday, according to AFP.
Israel could become a training hub for security and counterterrorism units from Kazakhstan and other Central Asian countries concerned about Islamic State and other terrorist groups, according to Michael Brodsky, Israel’s envoy to Kazakhstan.
A German who was caught by authorities for allegedly sharing intelligence secrets on radical Islamic websites was a former gay porn actor, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
Local and federal law enforcement authorities in Los Angeles have stepped up security on the city’s Metro rail system after the FBI received a tip that a terror attack on a subway station was planned for Tuesday.
AMSTERDAM — Dutch police arrested several suspects in connection with jihadists’ unrealized plan to attack a synagogue in the country’s capital city a year ago, a local daily revealed.
Europol warned on Friday that the ISIS is planning new terror attacks on Europe in the coming weeks. As well, Europol Director Robe Wainwright said police forces across Europe are currently investigating over 50 cases of terrorism.