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The men who built the secret bomb factory had been clever — suspiciously so, Bahraini investigators thought, for a gang known mostly for lobbing molotov cocktails at police.

An assailant stabbed two young men and a police officer in Jerusalem’s Old City Saturday afternoon, wounding them, before being shot and killed by security forces, police said.

According to a report by CNN, terrorist organizations such as ISIS have developed new ways to hide bombs in electronic devices that, according to the FBI, can go undetected by airport security screenings.

New documents suggest that the German police knew more about the threat posed by Tunisian terrorist Anis Amri than claimed, according to reports. On December 19th 2016 Amri murdered a Polish haulier and stole his vehicle, which he later drove into

European Parliament President Antonio Tajani claims there could be as many as 30 million migrants heading to Europe in the coming years and advocates “refugee cities” as an answer to the crisis.

In his first official visit to Russia this week, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani signed an agreement with his counterpart Vladimir Putin on their commitment to a peace process in war-torn Syria, Voice of America reported.

BERLIN (AP) — A 19-year-old German man has been convicted of belonging to the Islamic State extremist group and sentenced as a youth to 3 years and 3 months in prison.

Sergeant Alexander Blackman, know as Marine A, will receive police protection when he is released from jail after it emerged he is a terrorist target.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu says Turkey has been “very clear” in explaining its presence in Syria: to defeat the Islamic State.

Security sources have told Sky News that more than four hundred British jihadists who travelled to the Middle East to fight for terror organisations like Islamic State and the al-Nusra Front have returned home, and most have evaded the authorities.

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has urged Russia and the West to join forces against terrorism during a visit to Moscow, after ISIS claimed responsibility for an attack which killed six men in Chechnya. According to German state broadcaster

Iran’s central bank said Sunday it will appeal Luxembourg’s decision to freeze $1.6 billion of its assets, which the US is claiming as compensation for victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

The Jewish state is a global human rights leader that is serving as an example to others as terrorism continues to plague the world, a prominent former Israeli Supreme Court president said this week, the Hebrew newspaper Makor Rishon reported.

A bill introduced in the Senate on Thursday would impose sanctions on Iran for launching ballistic missiles and other provocative acts, a move that fits with President Donald Trump’s plans to take a tougher stance against the top sponsor of terror in the world, according to the U.S. Department of State.

WASHINGTON, D.C.– Convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh, who was implicated in a terrorist attack in which two Israelis murdered and was later accused of lying about her security background on her immigration papers to the United States, has accepted a guilty plea deal with federal prosecutors to leave the U.S. while avoiding prison time.

The trial of jihadis who stashed a pipe bomb and a machete inscribed with the word ‘kafir’ as they plotted a terror attack was brought to a halt on Thursday in the wake of Wednesday’s attack in Westminster.

Top Eurocrat Julian King urged people “to keep in mind the growing menace of Right-wing violent extremism” just one day after a radical Islamic terrorist murdered a number of people in Westminster, London.

Recent incidents in France are most telling about an Age of Enlightenment giving way, albeit centuries later, to an “Age of Turbidity.”

For years, family members of those killed on Sept. 11 and insurance companies tried unsuccessfully through the courts to hold Saudi Arabia or businesses and organizations there responsible for the terrorist attacks. Now that Congress has cleared the way, they’re making a fresh effort.

Reuters reports that Turkey is “urging the U.S. and Britain to lift the flight electronics ban,” although the body of the story makes it sound more like Turkey is negotiating an exemption for its own flights.

The top U.S. military commander in Europe said Thursday at a Senate hearing that the terrorist threat is higher in Europe than anywhere on the globe, with the exception of current war zones.

Reuters reports that they have exclusively obtained four memos written by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to American diplomatic missions, instructing them to identify “populations warranting increased scrutiny” for visa applications.

TEL AVIV – The newly elected leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip said on Wednesday that the terror group will not stop attacking Israel until “the liberation of all of Palestine.”

Dr. Alan Mendoza, founder and executive director of the Henry Jackson Society, said the 22 March terrorist attack in Westminster follows “the modus operandi of ISIS-related attacks” in the weaponisation of vehicles.

The terror attack in Westminster Wednesday shows Australia’s decision to reject 500 asylum seekers over security fears was “prudent”, the nation’s immigration minister said on Thursday.

(AP) – European Union Security Commissioner Julian King is suggesting there could be a link between Wednesday’s attack in London and the suicide bombings in Brussels exactly one year ago.

Heartfelt tributes have been paid to Police Constable Keith Palmer, the 48-year-old husband and father who died after being stabbed multiple times outside the Palace of Westminster on 22 March.

Prime Minister Theresa May has confirmed the Westminster attacker who killed three on Wednesday was “British-born” and had been investigated by security forces in the past. Speaking in parliament, Mrs May said the man was known to police and MI5 and

Supporters of Islamic State have praised the deadly attack in Westminster, justifying the killings as “revenge” for the second Gulf war and air strikes on the terror group in Iraq and Syria.

Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło has drawn a clear link between the European Union’s permissive migration policy and terror events such as the Westminster attacks.

The Solicitor General for England and Wales, Robert Buckland, has claimed that Google may be in breach of the Terrorism Act for failing to take down material from proscribed extremist organizations.

Twitter has stated that they shut down 377,000 Twitter accounts in the second half of 2016 for promoting terrorism on the social media platform.

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Boris Johnson will attend a terror summit chaired by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Wednesday.

BRUSSELS (AP) — Brussels International Airport, where 16 people died in two bomb attacks on March 22, 2016, looks shiny new. The Maelbeek subway station, where another 16 died from a backpack bomb, processes commuters much as it always has. And tourism is recovering, despite Donald Trump calling the Belgian capital a “hellhole” that should be avoided at all costs.

Japan’s opposition parties and civil liberties protesters are objecting to a legislative bill that would greatly expand Japanese police’s capability to prosecute would-be terrorists on conspiracy charges.

The United States warned Tuesday that extremists plan to target passenger jets with bombs hidden in electronic devices, and banned carrying them onto flights from 10 Middle East airports.