Latest Terrorism News

Pakistani jets target suspected Pakistani Taliban hideouts in Afghanistan, killing 8 people

Mar. 18, 2024 08:58 AM EDT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani airstrikes targeted multiple suspected hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban inside neighboring Afghanistan early on Monday, the foreign ministry said. The Afghan Taliban said the attacks killed at least eight people and prompted return fire from their forces. ...

Spanish and European officials mark the 20th anniversary of the Madrid train bombings in 2004

Mar. 11, 2024 10:54 AM EDT

MADRID (AP) — Victims of terror attacks are a symbol of the constant need to guard freedom and the rule of law against threats, King Felipe VI of Spain said Monday at a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of one of Europe’s deadliest extremist attacks. “Remembering, just like...

Judge sentences 4 defendants in US terrorism and kidnapping case to life in prison, appeals planned

Mar. 06, 2024 21:39 PM EST

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A U.S. judge on Wednesday sentenced four family members to life in prison for convictions stemming from a federal terrorism and kidnapping case that began in 2017 with the search for a toddler who went missing from Georgia and was later found dead when authorities raided...

3 men snared in right-wing extremism probe charged in London court with prepping for terrorism

Feb. 27, 2024 13:48 PM EST

LONDON (AP) — Three men arrested in an investigation into right-wing extremism were charged Tuesday in a London court with preparing to commit a terrorist act, authorities said. They were arrested on Feb. 21, Counter Terrorism Policing North East said. Prosecutors...

What would a new Palestinian government in the West Bank mean for the war in Gaza?

Feb. 26, 2024 21:02 PM EST

The Palestinian Authority's prime minister announced his government's resignation on Monday, seen as the first step in a reform process urged by the United States as part of its latest ambitious plans to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But it will do little to address the...

Man who intentionally drove his truck into a Muslim family, killing 4, gets life sentence in Canada

Feb. 22, 2024 19:58 PM EST

LONDON, Ontario (AP) — A man found guilty of using his pickup truck to kill four members of a Muslim family was sentenced Thursday to life in prison as a Canadian judge ruled that the actions of the admitted white nationalist amounted to terrorism. Nathaniel Veltman has also been...

A Russian court orders the arrest of a bestselling writer over his support for Ukraine

Feb. 06, 2024 06:44 AM EST

MOSCOW (AP) — A Moscow court ordered the arrest Tuesday of a bestselling detective novelist and dissident on charges of “justifying terrorism,” two months after he was pranked by two pro-Kremlin activists into expressing support for Ukraine on a phone call. Moscow's Basmanny...

Paris police chief says no apparent terrorist motive in train station attack with hammer and knife

Feb. 03, 2024 05:39 AM EST
PARIS (AP) — Paris police chief says no apparent terrorist motive in train station attack with hammer and knife.

Top UN court rejects most of Ukraine's terror financing and discrimination case against Russia

Jan. 31, 2024 12:17 PM EST

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations' top court on Wednesday rejected large parts of a case filed by Ukraine alleging that Russia bankrolled separatist rebels in the country's east a decade ago and has discriminated against Crimea's multiethnic community since its annexation of the...

US warned Iran that ISIS-K was preparing attack ahead of deadly Kerman blasts, a US official says

Jan. 25, 2024 11:56 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government privately warned Iran that the Islamic State group's affiliate in Afghanistan was preparing to carry out a terrorist attack before bombings in Kerman earlier this month that killed 95 people, a U.S. official said Thursday. The official, who was...