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The UK is preparing for what will be the largest security operation in the history of the country for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001 (9/11) Islamic terrorist attacks on the United States, was approved for a visa by the federal government just weeks before the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans. 

Seven of the 19 Islamic terrorists who hijacked commercial planes on September 11, 2001 (9/11), killing nearly 3,000 Americans, remained in the United States after overstaying their visas thanks to a wide-open loophole that continues to allow about 685,000 illegal aliens to stay in the U.S.

Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said Sunday on CBS “Face the Nation” that domestic threats the United States is facing are worse than international terrorism threats.

The government of the Czech Republic, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, has condemned threats from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as Turkey has also claimed Kurdish terrorists have been training in Greece. President Erdogan made

Al-Qaeda forces attacked separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in southern Yemen on Tuesday. 21 separatist fighters were reportedly killed during three hours of gun battles, along with six al-Qaeda members.

During the planned three and a half months of court proceedings in Paris, survivors and those mourning loved ones will recount the horrors inflicted along the beachfront of Nice on the night of July 14, 2016.

Bastille Day, 2016. Shortly after the end of a fireworks display, a 19-tonne (21 U.S.-ton) truck careered through the crowds for 2 kilometres (1¼ miles) like a snow plough, hitting person after person. The final death toll was 86, including 15 children and adolescents, while 450 others were injured…

There is an elevated threat of terror attacks on French soil by Islamic extremists, France’s national anti-terrorism prosecutor warned Friday.

Radical Islamist President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi declared his country “invincible” in a threatening military rant on Thursday preceded by his top diplomat claiming the rogue regime was still “closely studying” a proposal to revive the doomed 2015 nuclear energy deal with Europe and the United States.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is pressing Democrat President Joe Biden directly for answers on the anniversary of the terrorist bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport that left 13 American servicemen and women dead and their families’ lives forever changed.

Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) took steps this week to restore diplomatic relations with Iran, a tacit acknowledgment that President Joe Biden’s reckless determination to restore the Iran nuclear deal will make Tehran vastly more rich and powerful, not to mention bringing it closer to deploying a nuclear umbrella.

Irish Nationalists in Northern Ireland burnt a picture of the Queen, along with other British symbols on bonfires on Monday night.

Reuters on Monday dispatched reporters to the village of Yaroun in southern Lebanon, the “ancestral home” of Hadi Matar, the 24-year-old man who rushed onstage and attacked author Salman Rushdie with a knife on Friday.

An Arab resident of eastern Jerusalem shot seven people, including four American citizens, near Jerusalem’s Old City overnight Saturday, before turning himself in to police after an intense hours-long manhunt.

Five young men in Finland could be facing terrorism charges over forming an alleged “Satanic Neo Nazi” group and plotting to carry out attacks.

BERLIN (AP) – Latvia’s parliament on Thursday declared Russia a “state sponsor of terrorism” for attacks on civilians during the war in Ukraine and urged other countries to follow suit.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas R. Nides supported Israel’s “right to protect itself” on Friday after the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), an Iran-backed terror group in Gaza, fired 100-plus rockets at Israeli towns earlier that day.

Taliban jihadists claimed in an official statement on Thursday that they had “no information” on the very conspicuous presence of now-former al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul, Afghanistan, where a U.S. airstrike eliminated him last weekend.

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Wednesday on FNC’s “The Story” that terrorists are “welcomed in Afghanistan when reacting to the U.S. drone strike that killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Taiwan’s major airports received nine threats, including bomb threats, on Tuesday alone in anticipation of a reported, but yet unconfirmed, visit by U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to the island nation this week, the country’s Liberty Times reported.

BERLIN — The German government indicated Wednesday that it was willing to pay further compensation to the families of 11 Israeli athletes killed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich by a Palestinian group. Family members of the athletes have criticized the proposed amount as “insulting.”

The “inexcusably awful” collection of data on illegal migrants puts the UK’s national security at risk, a government watchdog has found.

A report by Europol examining terrorism within the EU in 2021 has found that jihadists remain the single biggest threat to the bloc, despite an increasing political focus on right-wing extremists.

The fatal stabbing of a woman at a “Politician Week” has been made a terror investigation amid reports the suspect has neo-Nazi ties. 

The only surviving attacker from the November 2015 terrorist massacre in Paris has renounced the right to appeal his murder conviction.

France’s National Intelligence Commission claimed that nearly 23,000 people were spied on by French authorities last year.

A group of unidentified bandits attacked the advance team for Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari near his hometown of Daura on Tuesday, injuring two people. 

France repatriated 51 women and children from former Islamic State areas in Syria, according to the counterterrorism prosecutor´s office.

An online social media post by an account with a transgender flag in its name appearing to threaten trans-critical author J.K Rowling has generated significant outcry online.

The lone survivor of a team of Islamic extremists who attack Paris in 2015 was convicted Wednesday of murder.

The suspect in the Oslo shooting that left two dead at a local gay bar is said to have had direct contact with an Islamist group.

Over the course of an extraordinary trial, the lone surviving attacker proclaimed his radicalism, wept, and pleaded with judges to forgive.

A gunman opened fire in Oslo’s night-life district early Saturday, killing two people and leaving 10 seriously wounded.

A Jerusalem court has ruled the Palestinian Authority must pay NIS130 million ($38 million) in compensation to 34 families of Israeli victims of terror.

Colombian President-Elect Gustavo Petro, a former member of a Marxist terrorist organization, announced on Wednesday that he engaged in a friendly conversation with Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro aimed at “normalizing” relations.