Saudi Arabian leaders reached out to the United States on Friday to express condolences after one of their citizens was identified as the shooter in an incident that left four people dead at Naval Air Station Pensacola, in the U.S. state of Florida. Others, including responding law enforcement officers, were…
Authorities in Morocco say they found chemical agents in a cache of weapons and other items seized Friday, during raids on what they called a terrorist cell likely aligned with Islamic State. The raids happened near Casablanca, and in Chefchaouen and Ouazzane, according to a statement from the Bureau central…
President Uhuru Kenyatta has confirmed that 14 people died in Tuesday’s attack at the Dusit Hotel in Nairobi, with hundreds of others injured and evacuated. “We are grieving as a country this morning; my heart, and that of every Kenyan, goes out to the innocent men and women violated by…
The United States embassy in Kinshasa reopened on Tuesday, after closing its doors in response to a terror threat for more than a week. Embassy staff first announced the threat on November 24, and said the closure was effective the following Monday. The threat, based on what they described as “credible…
A terror attack in New York City on Tuesday has brought renewed attention to the United States Diversity Visa program – the immigration pathway that brought the alleged attacker into the U.S. – but the truth is that President Donald Trump announced three months ago his intent to end the…
British authorities have identified the man believed responsible for the Manchester bombing attack Monday night as Salman Ramadan Abedi, a 22-year-old of Libyan descent who was from the city. Abedi died in the bomb detonation, which claimed the lives of at least 22 people – many of them children –…
Canadian authorities have identified the six men of African origin who were killed during prayers Sunday night at a mosque in Quebec City, as their Canadian neighbors took to the streets in solidarity with the Muslim community. The men were killed when 27-year-old Alexandre Bissonnette, a student influenced by the…
The death toll in Monday’s bombing attack near an AMISOM base in Mogadishu has risen to at least 15 people, according to Radio Shabelle in Somalia. Dozens of people also were wounded in two midday car bomb explosions that occurred at the base near the Mogadishu International Airport (Aden Adde),…