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BERLIN (AP) — A 28-year-old German-Russian citizen was arrested Friday in Germany on suspicion of bombing the bus carrying the Borussia Dortmund soccer team in an attack last week that officials alleged was motivated by financial greed, prosecutors said.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Investigators say they have searched the home of the suspected suicide bomber behind Monday’s deadly explosion on the St. Petersburg subway.

A suspected car bomb has exploded in the Swedish capital of Stockholm.

BERLIN (AP) — A 50-year-old German far-right extremist suspected of carrying out a bloody bomb attack that injured 10 immigrants – six of them Jewish – in 2000 was arrested after bragging to fellow inmates about the crime, officials said Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – A video produced by an Israeli legal rights NGO claiming that Facebook allows incitement leading to Islamic terrorism has gone viral, garnering nearly 1 million views in the four days since it was launched.

JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority official television network broadcast a song praising President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party for its call to “slice open” Israel’s chest on no less than eleven occasions in under a week.

The American Civil Liberties Union is representing Ahmad Rahami, the man accused of setting off bombs in New York and New Jersey that injured over 30 people.

Some 10 bomb blasts during the night rocked five coastal resort areas along Thailand’s southern coast, including Hua Hin and Phuket, leaving at least four dead and dozens wounded.

(AFP) – A sixth man was charged Friday in connection to Australia’s so-called “tinnie terror” case in which a group of young men allegedly hoped to travel overseas on a small boat to join jihadists. Australian Federal Police said a

An FBI sting operation has thwarted a plan to bomb a synagogue in Miami, Florida.

According to the UK Independent, Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) supporters celebrated the Brussels bombings online, even before the Islamic State formally took responsibility for the attacks.

Armstrong Williams, who was a senior adviser to Dr. Ben Carson’s presidential campaign, tells Breitbart News Daily host Stephen K. Bannon about the aftermath of the Brussels terror attack, and its ramifications for the American presidential campaign.

“Islamic State fighters carried out a series of bombings with explosive belts and devices on Tuesday, targeting an airport and a central metro station in the center of the Belgian capital Brussels, a country participating in the international coalition against the Islamic State,” said the ISIS-affiliated Amaq news agency on Tuesday, as translated by Heavy.com.

Irish journalist Hermann Kelly, who is the communications director for the EFDD Euroskeptic group in the European Parliament, spoke with Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM on Tuesday about the morning’s horrific terror attacks in Belgium.

Steven Wolfe, a UKIP member of the European parliament, was an eyewitness to the bombing of the Metro stop in Brussels on Tuesday morning. He called into Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM to discuss the experience with host Stephen K. Bannon, who noted the death toll from that particular bombing was at least ten or eleven people, at the time of the conversation.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) has claimed responsibility for a bombing attack that resulted in the deaths of nine people, which occurred in Egypt’s capital city of Cairo.

The spread of the Islamic State into India is a matter of grave concern for the authorities, and political division among the people, as demonstrated by the rise of the Hindu Swabhiman militia, whose appeal rests largely on fears that the government cannot protect provincial Indians from ISIS.

As part of their recent focus on the most vulnerable targets, Islamic State militants shelled a school in eastern Syria on Tuesday morning, killing at least nine schoolgirls and wounding another 20 people. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

Reports are coming in from Paris on Friday afternoon of a shootout at a restaurant, and an explosion in a bar near the Stade de France stadium, where a soccer game between France and Germany was in progress. Multiple fatalities have been reported at the restaurant.

Turkey was surprisingly quiet during the first day of Russian bombing in Syria, but they were certain to denounce the action, because they have long criticized the regime of dictator Bashar Assad and have insisted his removal was crucial to resolving the Syrian crisis. The Turks are not terribly fond of the Russians either.

Yesterday, Secretary of State John Kerry described Russian action in Syria as a potential “opportunity” for the United States, suggesting the Russians ought to follow President Obama’s agenda in Syria.

The hunt for the perpetrators of the Erawan Shrine bombing in Bangkok continues, and the long-rumored Uighur connection seems to be firming up.

Malaysian authorities on Monday announced the arrest of three suspects—two Malaysians and a Pakistani national—in connection with the August 17 terrorist bombing of the Erewan shrine in Bangkok, in which 20 people were killed.

An FBI undercover operation—stretching back to the jihadi attack on the Mohammed Art Exhibit and Contest in Garland, Texas—has resulted in charges against 20-year-old Joshua Ryne Goldberg of Orange Park, Florida, for a plot to use a pressure-cooker bomb against a 9/11 memorial in Kansas City, Missouri.

On Saturday morning, Thai police raided an apartment on the outskirts of Bangkok and arrested a man they regard as a prime suspect in the horrific bombing attack on the Erawan Shrine last week, in which 20 people were killed. Word soon spread that the suspect was a Turkish citizen.

The hunt for the Bangkok bombers continues, with the authorities focusing on a male suspect caught on surveillance video dropping a backpack under a bench near the Erewan shrine and departing the area about fifteen minutes before the blast that killed 20 people and wounded over 120 others.

As Thai authorities desperately hunt for the terrorists behind the horrible bomb attack on the Erawan shrine in Bangkok, which has killed at least 22 people and wounded over a hundred others, the police have reportedly discovered and deactivated at least two more bombs, while a third explosive device was thrown by an unknown assailant onto a bridge crowded with pedestrian traffic.

A new group called Veterans Against the Deal has produced its first viral video criticizing President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, featuring medically-retired Staff Sgt. Robert Bartlett.

According to the Kurdish Rudaw news agency, Turkish airstrikes against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets destroyed a health clinic in the Amediye district of Duhok. The clinic is said to have serviced several nearby villages. No casualties were reported.

Al-Shabaab, the Somali terror gang currently aligned with al-Qaeda but increasingly believed to be tied to the Islamic State, attacked a minivan full of United Nations staff with a bomb this weekend. According to the UK Guardian, there were nine fatalities, including four representatives from UNICEF, the fabled United Nation’s children’s fund.

As Assyrian Christians were celebrating Easter Sunday, militants from the Islamic State blew up the 80-year-old church of the Virgin Mary in Tal Nasri village in the western countryside of Hasaka province, in northeastern Syria.

An arrest has been made in the Colorado Springs case known as the “NAACP bombing.” But according to the criminal complaint in the case, the bomb was intended as a warning to the suspect’s accountant and not an attack on the NAACP office.

Berlin (AFP) – Seventy years ago Allied bombing laid waste to the historic German city of Dresden, whose post-war image as a symbol of peace has been dented recently by anti-Islamic protests.