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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, in an op-ed published Wednesday, again supplicated the Taliban terrorists to embrace his U.S.-backed offer of a truce and official acceptance of the group as a political organization, stressing that he is willing to “negotiate” with the Taliban’s chief “anywhere he wants.”

A van was driven into the offices of a right-wing Dutch newspaper in Amsterdam Tuesday morning, bursting into flames and causing significant damage in what is being called an attack on the news organisation.

A study by the global insurer Lloyd’s found that Nigeria may be losing $437 million a year in terrorism losses, the Nigerian newspaper Vanguard reported on Monday. Nigeria is home to several Islamist insurgencies, most notably the Islamic State affiliate Boko Haram and the violent Fulani herdsmen.

Gunshots were fired from a car with Palestinian license plates near the West Bank settlement of Kibbutz Migdal Oz on Sunday night in what the Israel Defense Forces called an attempted terror attack.

An Islamic State-inspired man from north London was “just days away” from launching a bomb and knife attack on 10 Downing Street, aiming to “take the head off” Theresa May, a court has heard.

A British spy chief has spoken out among ongoing Brexit talks, revealing UK intelligence helped foil terror plots across the bloc last year, as hardline Brussels bureaucrats move to cut off Britain despite the clear advantage of high-quality British intelligence to European security.

A British Muslim terrorist known as a “master bomb-maker” for the Islamic State triggered the U.S. laptop ban on flights last year, a former MI6 spy has revealed in a new autobiography.

More than 1,000 people have been murdered or injured on European soil since 2014, in attacks carried out by Islamist asylum seekers and refugees, research has revealed.

The parents of Otto Warmbier, an American hostage who was killed by the regime in North Korea, are moving ahead with a lawsuit against the regime, according to a report from The Washington Post on Friday.

52-year-old journalist Shujaat Bukhari — founder and editor of the English-language daily paper Rising Kashmir — was reportedly murdered by three motorcycle-riding gunmen outside his office in the city center of Lal Chowk on Thursday evening.

The number of terror-related arrests in Britain has reached a record high, the Home Office has announced, in a bulletin which highlighted a “steady rise” in “the proportion of prisoners holding far-right ideologies” over recent years. Following the Islamist attacks

Immigration is now seen as the most important issue facing the European Union (EU) by people in every member state, apart from seven, where it is terrorism, an official survey has found.

LONDON (AP) — An alleged member of a banned British neo-Nazi group pleaded guilty Tuesday to planning to murder a lawmaker.

Sappers detonated an improvised explosive device found near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron on Sunday, police said. Border police manning a station just outside the tomb noticed the suspicious device and immediately cleared the area and summoned the sappers.

TEL AVIV – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have been urged by two members of Congress to shutter the Washington D.C. bureau of the Palestine Liberation Organization, which endorses “flagrant violations” of U.S. law such as payments to terrorists.

A top United Nations official on Thursday encouraged Kabul to put “anything” the Taliban wants on the table, including the withdrawal of U.S.-NATO coalition troops, to convince the jihadists to embrace Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s offer of a ceasefire and official recognition as a political group.

The Argentinian national team’s decision to succumb to threats and cancel its exhibition match in Israel Saturday night is “outrageous,” Rudy Giuliani told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.

The Fort Worth City Council approved the purchase of portable anti-vehicle barriers that they will use to prevent possible terrorist attacks at events drawing large crowds.

Outdated federal laws are hindering U.S. efforts to confront the “very serious, looming” and “quickly evolving” threat posed by drones in the hands of terrorists, American government officials warned lawmakers on Wednesday.

An 18-year-old girl has been found guilty of plotting a murderous knife attack at London’s British Museum with the UK’s first all-woman terror cell which was in contact with Islamic State in the Middle East.

The French government has banned ‘big screen zones’ for football fans to watch World Cup 2018 matches due to the ongoing terror threat — casting further doubt over Western governments’ claims that they are not allowing radical Islam to “change our way of life”.

Britain’s Security Service (MI5) will give the identity of terror suspects to police officers, teachers, and social workers in a bid to stop plots and deter extremism, the Home Secretary announced Monday.

Over 40 per cent of terrorists convicted and imprisoned over the past decade will be back on the streets by the end of 2018, having served fairly light sentences.

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May joined survivors, victims’ families and emergency workers at a memorial service Sunday to mark a year since a deadly vehicle-and-knife attack brought terror to London Bridge on a warm Saturday night.

Authorities in Malaysia reportedly detained 15 suspected terrorists — including a student, a housewife, six Malaysians, six Filipinos, and a Bangladeshi restaurant owner — on Friday for allegedly smuggling firearms into the Muslim-majority country and plotting attacks on several non-Muslim places of worship.

Australia has demanded assurances from the Palestinian Authority that Aus­tralian aid has not funded payments to terrorist “martyrs” or their families.

A Syrian man shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ has been shot after fatally stabbing a police dog and attacking police officers with an axe in the Dutch city of Schiedam.

NEW YORK — The sudden, massive barrage of potentially deadly rocket and mortar fire from the Gaza Strip is a transparent attempt by Iran to utilize its Gaza proxies to advance Iran’s own aims inside Syria.

General Kim Yong-chol, a top North Korean official en route Tuesday to New York for meetings with American officials, stands accused of a litany of terrorist acts and holds a “Specially Designated Person” sanction from the U.S. Treasury, banning U.S. citizens from any business with him.

PARIS (AP) — France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor says about 40 convicted terrorists are due to be released from French prisons this year and next, calling the re-entry into society of the unrepentant ones a “major risk.”

A report at the South China Morning Post on Monday contends that China is dramatically accelerating its nuclear weapons research, conducting about four times more simulated nuclear explosions in laboratory experiments as the United States between 2012 and 2017.

Colombia will see its top two presidential candidates – law-and-order conservative Iván Duque and leftist former guerrilla fighter Gustavo Petro – move on to a runoff vote after Duque won Sunday’s election with 39.14 percent of the vote.

Events in Morocco present the U.S. with an array of opportunities to secure a series of gains in northern and western Africa, as well as in Europe and beyond, as it seeks to curb Iranian power.

Iranians will punch U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the mouth as a response to any attempt to tighten sanctions on the Islamic Republic,  a senior Revolutionary Guards commander said on Tuesday.

25-year-old Alexander Ciccolo, the son of a Boston police captain, pled guilty on Monday to plotting an Islamic State terrorist attack on a college campus.

The Swedish security agency Sapo has revealed it is having a much harder time tracking down potential terrorists as more and more lone wolf attackers inspired by, but not directly tied to, the Islamic State continue to emerge.