Latest Terrorism News

A new law allows Israel to deport the relatives of attackers. Experts expect it to be struck down

Nov. 07, 2024 14:39 PM EST

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament passed a law early Thursday that would allow it to deport family members of Palestinian attackers, including the country’s own citizens, to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip or other locations. The law, which was championed by members of Prime...

2 Swedish teens face preliminary terror charges for explosions near the Israeli Embassy in Denmark

Nov. 07, 2024 09:10 AM EST

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Two Swedish teenagers who were arrested in connection with last month's predawn explosions near the Israeli Embassy in Copenhagen faced preliminary charges of terror on Thursday, Danish media reported. The charges come before formal charges and allow...

Greek police seize large cache of explosives and arrest 5 in organized crime crackdown

Nov. 05, 2024 11:00 AM EST

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Police in Greece have seized large quantities of explosives and firearms following raids in Athens aimed at dismantling what authorities described as a significant criminal weapons storage and distribution network in the country's capital. Five people were...

UK leader tells Interpol meeting world must 'wake up' to threat from people-smugglers

Nov. 04, 2024 08:32 AM EST

LONDON (AP) — People-smuggling gangs sending migrants across the English Channel in small boats are a serious threat to global security and should be treated like terror networks, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told an international law-enforcement conference on Monday. ...

Trial opens in France in the beheading of a teacher over prophet cartoons

Nov. 04, 2024 07:44 AM EST

PARIS (AP) — The trial of eight people in Paris on terrorism charges started on Monday over the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, who was killed by an Islamic extremist after showing caricatures of Islam's prophet to his middle school students for a lesson on freedom of expression. ...

Turkey ousts 3 elected pro-Kurdish mayors from office and replaces them with state officials

Nov. 04, 2024 03:02 AM EST

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey on Monday removed three elected pro-Kurdish mayors from office over terrorism-related charges and replaced them with state-appointed officials, the Interior Ministry said. The move, which comes days after the arrest and ouster from...

Chicago school board head ousted because of social media posts deemed antisemitic, misogynistic

Oct. 31, 2024 17:39 PM EDT

CHICAGO (AP) — The president of the Chicago school board resigned Thursday just a week after he was appointed because of social media posts deemed antisemitic, anti-women and lending credence to a conspiracy theory about the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Rev. Mitchell Johnson's...

Hundreds in Turkey protest the arrest and ouster of opposition mayor

Oct. 31, 2024 13:27 PM EDT

ISTANBUL (AP) — Hundreds gathered Thursday in Istanbul to protest against the arrest and removal from office of a mayor from Turkey's main opposition party for his alleged links to a banned Kurdish militant group. Ahmet Ozer, mayor of Istanbul’s Esenyurt district and a member of...

All 3 Iranian Consulates in Germany ordered shut after execution of Iranian German prisoner

Oct. 31, 2024 10:22 AM EDT

BERLIN (AP) — Germany ordered the closure of all three Iranian Consulates in the country on Thursday in response to the execution of Iranian German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who lived in the United States and was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces. Sharmahd, 69,...

Teen charged in UK dance class stabbings stays silent in court on new poison and terror charges

Oct. 30, 2024 10:50 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — A teen charged with killing three girls and wounding 10 other people in a stabbing rampage at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England refused to speak as he appeared in court Wednesday to face new charges of possessing a deadly poison and a terror charge linked to possessing an...