Two separate lone wolf attacks in Israel on the same day, part of a wave of violence perpetrated by single individuals, highlight the tensions in Israeli and Palestinian society since the cessation of open hostilities between Palestine and Israel over the summer.
On Friday, a Chinese court found four people guilty of carrying out a massive slaying rampage at a railroad station back in early March, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported. Three people were sentenced to death and one more was sentenced to life in prison.
On Monday U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had a meeting with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, to evaluate Turkey's contribution to the coalition to fight the Islamic State.
The authorities in Bosnia have arrested 16 people they claim have gone to fight for radical Islamist groups in Syria and Iraq at a time the issue of foreigners fighting in those conflicts has seized the attention of the media and governments around the world.
What seemed like a random murder and attempted robbery in a small northern New Jersey community may have been a deliberate act of terrorism.
Nine people were killed in a shootout between smugglers and security forces near an Egyptian coastal town on the Mediterranean Sea.
The month old Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip seems as though it may be coming to a close as numerous reports say that both Hamas and Israel have accepted an Egyptian negotiated peace at the same time large numbers of Israeli troops are withdrawing from Gaza.
Two recent attacks in Israel proper suggest that the hostilities in the Gaza Strip are no longer limited by geography, implying a wider uprising akin to an intifada is more and more likely.
The first confirmed American suicide bomber in the Syrian Civil War was able to return to the United States for months before he carried out his final deadly mission on behalf of the al-Qaida aligned Nusra Front.
The government of Bolivia has declared Israel a terrorist state after it attacked a designated United Nations shelter in the Gaza Strip for the second time in as many weeks.
Chinese state media is reporting that dozens of civilians were killed or injured when groups armed with knives rampaged through a county in China's restive western province of Xinjiang.
Testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee revealed that the United States knew that the Islamic State was advancing on Iraqi territory from Syria and tried to warn the Iraqi government of the growing threat, but the Iraqis refused to listen and take appropriate defensive measures.
Boko Haram marked the 100 day anniversary since they kidnapped more than 200 school girls from a Nigerian village with two separate bomb attacks that targeted an ex-president and a moderate Muslim cleric.
The Intercept has obtained the handbook that was created by the United States government as a guide for how and when to put someone on a terrorist watch list.
09 Aug '24 16:35PM
