Tag: terrorist attack

Lawmakers Press Pentagon for Answers Over Terrorist Attack in Afghanistan That Killed 13 US Troops

House Republicans are demanding answers from the Pentagon months after the terrorist attack at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2021 that killed 13 U.S. troops and at least 169 Afghan civilians. It comes after a former Marine who survived the Aug. 26, 2021 bombings testified to Congress in March that he was told not to…


Ukrainian ‘Saboteurs’ Attack Russian Border Region, Moscow Claims

Russian authorities on March 2 claimed they were fending off a “terrorist attack” in the country’s western Bryansk region, which shares a border with Ukraine’s northern regions of Sumy and Chernihiv. “Ukrainian saboteurs infiltrated a border district of the Bryansk region on Thursday morning,” Russia’s TASS news agency reported, adding that at least one person…


German Police Detain Iranian Suspected of Planning ‘Islamist-Motivated’ Attack

CASTROP-RAUXEL, Germany—German police have taken into custody a 32-year-old Iranian citizen suspected of having procured deadly poisons cyanide and ricin to commit an “Islamist-motivated” attack, authorities in western Germany said on Sunday. The residence of the suspect in the city of Castrop-Rauxel was searched as part of the investigation, according to a joint press release…


St. Paul’s Chapel in New York City Stands Strong as a Sanctuary of Solace Following 9/11

St. Paul’s Chapel in New York City is not just where George Washington prayed after being inaugurated as first President of the United States. It has been a place of worship for more than two and a half centuries, resulting in countless generations of congregants. But most noteworthy, it is a survivor of September 11,…


Remembering 9/11: The Story of a Brave New Yorker Who Led His Company Staff to Safety

2,750 people perished in the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. The remains of 1,106 victims have yet to be identified, in what was the worst terrorist attack in United States history.  We rightly focus on the lives who were lost that day and on the people who died later as a result of their…


At Least 2 Dead in Tel Aviv Shooting Attack: Hospital Official

JERUSALEM—At least two people have died and four were seriously wounded in a shooting in Tel Aviv’s city center on Thursday, the latest of several attacks in which 13 people have been killed over the past month, the sharpest spike in Israel for years. An Israeli hospital official said two people were killed. The Magen…


At Least 2 Dead in Attack at Tel Aviv Bar, Police Say

TEL AVIV—A suspected Arab gunman killed at least two people in an attack at a bar on a main Tel Aviv boulevard on Thursday, police and hospital officials said, the latest in a string of deadly street assaults that have shaken Israel. Mayor Ron Huldai said the shooting, at the start of the weekend in…


Liverpool Bomb Made of Home-Made Explosives and Ball Bearings: UK Police

The bomb used in the terrorist attack in Liverpool on Remembrance Sunday was made with homemade explosives and ball bearings and could have caused “significant injury or death,” UK police said on Friday. Emad Al Swealmeen, 32, died in the blast in a taxi outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital shortly before 11 a.m. on Nov. 14….


COVID-19 Lockdown May Have Fueled Online Self-Radicalization: UK Minister

The COVID-19 lockdowns may have resulted in more people being self-radicalised on the Internet, a British minister has warned following a terrorist bomb attack in Liverpool on Remembrance Sunday. A taxi exploded outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital at 10:59 a.m. on Sunday, killing the passenger and injuring the driver, around a mile away from the city’s…


UK Police Declares Liverpool Hospital Blast ‘Terrorist Attack’

British police have said the car explosion in Liverpool on Remembrance Sunday was a terrorist attack, but the motive remains unclear. A taxi exploded outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital at 10:59 a.m. on Sunday, around a mile away from the city’s cathedral where a large Remembrance service was taking place. The male passenger of the car…