May 6, 2019 Former FBI linguist charged with lying to authorities about contact with terrorist A former FBI linguist is expected to appear in a Virginia courtroom Monday afternoon after being arrested on charges he lied to investigators by denying he had contact with a suspect in a terrorism investigation.
April 30, 2019 Brett Velicovich: My hunt for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi There was always one elusive target on every tour. One guy we hunted and chased but somehow kept slipping away. Every team had its archnemesis. Mine during the summer of 2010 was a man we called Abu Dua.
April 30, 2019 Trump wants to designate Muslim Brotherhood a terror group: report The White House is eyeing on designating the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization, an influential Islamist political movement operating throughout the Arab world that has been dogged by allegations of supporting terrorist activities.
April 15, 2019 ISIS member tasked with 'bringing in migrants,' newly obtained terror group documents show The Islamic State terror group may be down, but don't think it's out.
April 1, 2019 Despite crumbled caliphate, hunt for Baghdadi continues in Syria The ISIS territorial “caliphate” may have crumbled, but hunting down the group’s illusory leader is a fight that is far from over. Iraqi intelligence officials insist that Abu al-Baghdadi, 47, is alive and in hiding.
March 26, 2019 New Zealand mosque shooting suspect sent large donation to Austrian far-right leader, sparking anti-terror probe An Austrian far-right activist’s home was raided Monday as part of a larger investigation into his connection to the Christchurch mosque shooting that claimed the lives of 50 Muslims in New Zealand on March 15.
February 16, 2019 How Minneapolis' Somali community became the terrorist recruitment capital of the US Over the past twelve years, more men have joined – or attempted to join – a foreign terrorist organization from the largely Somali-American Minnesota than any other place in the country.
January 23, 2019 Worldwide terror attacks shrink to seven-year low, new study shows Global terror attacks fell 33 percent last year, while non-militant fatalities dropped by more than one-quarter, marking their lowest point since 2011, according to a new report.
January 10, 2019 Egypt’s leader deserves US support – Pompeo’s visit was a welcome move Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was right to visit Egypt, whose president is a friend of the US and deserves the support he has received from the Trump administration.
November 11, 2018 Trump could designate Iran-backed Yemen rebels as terror group, report says The Trump administration is reported to be contemplating designating Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militia a terrorist organization, igniting the debate or whether or not such a label will bring the protracted to war to close faster.
