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Congress bestows its highest honor on the 13 troops killed during Afghanistan withdrawal

Sep. 10, 2024 15:42 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday presented Congress' highest honor — the Congressional Gold Medal — to 13 U.S. service members who were killed during the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, even as the politics of a presidential election swirled around the event. ...

Man in Denmark faces preliminary terrorism charges over arson at a Jewish woman's home

Sep. 10, 2024 07:29 AM EDT

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A 21-year-old man in Denmark was arrested on Tuesday for arson after allegedly setting a fire at a Jewish woman's home in Copenhagen, and he faced preliminary court charges under the country's terrorism laws that could lead to a life sentence. Preliminary...

Man charged with plotting shooting at a New York Jewish center on anniversary of Oct. 7 Hamas attack

Sep. 06, 2024 21:11 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A Pakistani man was arrested in Canada this week and accused of plotting a mass shooting at a Jewish center in Brooklyn on the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that sparked the latest conflict in the Middle East, federal authorities announced Friday. ...

US charges Hamas leader, other militants in connection with Oct. 7 massacre in Israel

Sep. 03, 2024 21:06 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department announced criminal charges Tuesday against Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and other senior militants in connection with the Oct. 7, 2023, rampage in Israel, marking the first effort by American law enforcement to formally call out the masterminds of the attack....

Islamic State group claims Kabul suicide attack that killed at least 6

Sep. 03, 2024 12:11 PM EDT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Tuesday for this week's suicide bombing at a prosecutor's office in Kabul that killed at least six people and injured 13. The group said in a statement on its news outlet Amaq that the assailant detonated his...

A suicide bomber detonates in Afghan capital, killing at least 6 people and injuring 13

Sep. 02, 2024 11:56 AM EDT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Police in the Afghan capital say a suicide bomber carried out an attack Monday, killing at least six people and injuring 13 others. The blast took place in the southwestern Qala Bakhtiar neighborhood in Kabul, said Khalid Zadran, spokesman for the Kabul police...

At Venice Film Festival, Jude Law debuts ‘The Order’ about FBI manhunt for a domestic terrorist

Aug. 31, 2024 16:06 PM EDT

VENICE, Italy (AP) — Jude Law plays an FBI agent investigating the violent crimes of a white supremacist group in “The Order,” which premiered Saturday at the Venice Film Festival. An adaptation of Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt’s nonfiction book “The Silent Brotherhood,”...

Hong Kong court convicts 1 person and acquits 6 others in landmark terrorism trial

Aug. 29, 2024 09:15 AM EDT

HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court on Thursday convicted one person and acquitted six others over a thwarted bomb plot during anti-government protests in 2019, in the city's first case brought under a United Nations anti-terrorism law, according to local media. A panel of nine...

The suspect in a French synagogue attack said he wanted to change Israel's actions, prosecutors say

Aug. 28, 2024 17:31 PM EDT

PARIS (AP) — A 33-year-old man was handed preliminary terrorism charges over an arson attack on a French synagogue last weekend that he said was aimed at defending Palestinians and changing Israeli policy, prosecutors said Wednesday. The attack revived concerns about antisemitism...

Islamic State group claims responsibility for knife attack that killed 3 in Solingen, Germany

Aug. 24, 2024 19:28 PM EDT

SOLINGEN, Germany (AP) — The Islamic State militant group on Saturday claimed responsibility for a knife attack that killed three people and wounded eight more at a crowded festival marking this city's 650th anniversary. The extremist group said on its news site that the attacker...