#terrorism

#terrorism

The security threat from terrorist groups, especially TTP but also ISIS-K residing in Afghanistan, has been increasing, which made 2025 the deadliest year in a decade for Pakistan in terms of casualties from such violence. The surge in cross-border terror attacks from Afghan soil since the Taliban returned to power has been confirmed by successive reports of the UN Security Council's sanctions monitoring team.

In a Telegram post, the Ukrainian cell of the Base claimed a successful operation to eliminate an enemy agent in Odesa in a car bombing, which was later reported on in local Ukrainian media. This traitor, whose name we cannot yet disclose in the interests of the investigation, served Ukraine, but his heart was sold to the enemy, said the post, which was inferring the border service officer was assisting Russia in the south of the country.

He and fellow plotter Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed discussed making the IED using instructions in an al-Qaeda manual. Iqbal was caught on covert recordings telling Ahmed: I was looking and drove past like the TA centre, Marsh Road. At the bottom of their gate there's quite a big gap. If you had a little toy car it drives underneath one of their vehicles or something.

Armed extremists attacked a pair of villages in western Nigeria overnight, a lawmaker and medics said on Wednesday, killing at least 162 people in one of the deadliest assaults of its kind in recent months. The attacks targeted the villages of Woro and Nuku in Kwara state, Mohammed Omar Bio, a member of parliament representing the area, told the Associated Press.

In any country, a drone strike on a civilian train would be considered in exactly the same way purely as terrorism. There is not and cannot be any military purpose in this, Zelenskyy wrote on the Telegram messaging app. He said the latest bombardment undermined peace efforts and urged allies to step up pressure on Moscow to end the war.

A Chinese Muslim...and six Afghans were killed. Several others were wounded,

A 24-year-old man who attacked a garda four days after setting fire to Conor McGregor's pub has pleaded guilty to a number of offences, including terror charges.

In total, 19 dual nationals were stripped of their French passports in 2025, according to figures published in the police gazette l'Essor de la gendarmerie. The process followed convictions in the French courts, all for terrorism-related offences. The figures represent a fall on the previous year, when 41 people had their French passports removed. In 2023, 11 dual nationals lost their French citizenship, in 2022 six did, and four each in 2021 and 2020.

Authorities are investigating an incident caught on video of a man assaulting someone trying to protect a fellow Caltrain passenger whom the attacker was verbally harassing. The incident took place on December 23 at the San Carlos station, and the Good Samaritan was taken to the hospital with facial fractures. [KTVU] Parts of Marin County experienced heavy flooding Friday, and a flood advisory was in effect along the coast of the Bay Area through Sunday.

the terror threat remains elevated throughout the year, but on the evening of December 31st we will be particularly vigilant

Two men have been convicted of planning an Islamic State-inspired attack on a mass gathering of Jews in the Manchester area. Walid Saadaoui, 38, and Amar Hussein, 52, had a visceral dislike of Jewish people and wanted to cause untold harm, the court heard. But the plot was scuppered as they unknowingly laid bare their scheme to an undercover operative (UCO).

Naveed Akram, 24, faces charges of murdering 15 people and injuring dozens more in the shooting at a Hanukah celebration on 14 December. His 50-year-old father, Sajid Akram, 50, is the second alleged shooter and died at the scene. The police fact sheet outlining their allegations against Naveed reveals investigators believe three pipe bombs and a tennis ball bomb were thrown towards the crowd before the pair began shooting.

The British Foreign Office has issued a warning there is a "high threat of a terrorist attack" globally and in Dubai and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) which could affect UK interests. Brits are being warned against possible terrorist attacks this Christmas as they are "likely to try and carry out attacks in the UAE." The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) warned in their latest travel guidance, that there is a high threat of a possible attack targeting Jewish and Israeli linked areas.

Investigators say the deadly Bondi Beach attack is being treated as terrorism' after evidence of ISIL influence found. The Australian police say the two men accused of carrying out a deadly shooting at a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach that killed 15 people were inspired by the ISIL (ISIS) group. Police also confirmed on Tuesday that they were investigating a trip the two suspects undertook to the Philippines last month.

Actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found fatally stabbed Sunday at their home in Los Angeles. Their 32-year-old son, Nick Reiner, has been arrested, and has spoken publicly about struggles with drugs and periods of homelessness as a teen. [New York Times] Governor Gavin Newsom is hiring two CDC officials fired by Trump to work for the California health department.

Australia is reeling from what is simultaneously its deadliest terror and antisemitic attack . Sixteen people have now been declared dead in the attack, where two gunmen opened fire at the so-called Chanukah by the Sea celebration, an annual event to mark Hanukkah held at Bondi Beach in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, capital of the state of New South Wales.

Like all Australians, Bondi isn't just a place to me, it lives in my heart as a symbol of who we are. As a child I spent many Sundays on the beach at North Bondi life-savers as a nipper, and as a former mayor of Waverley council and a local councillor for more than a decade, I have walked its concrete ramparts thousands of times, in all its seasons.

Despite overwhelming focus on the Department of Homeland Security's handling of immigration enforcement, a Thursday hearing on worldwide threats targeting the U.S. did feature some insights into the biggest cybersecurity challenges facing the nation. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent and FBI National Security Branch operations chief Michael Glasheen testified before the House Homeland Security Committee in the annual hearing meant to discuss terrorism, cybersecurity, drones and other matters that concern Americans' security.

Today, we have decided to prosecute Mohammad Bashir with terrorism offences following a Counter Terrorism Policing North West investigation into his conduct linked to Jihad al-Shamie. Bashir has been charged with assisting Jihad al-Shamie, above, in connection with terrorism related offences. Our prosecutors have concluded that there is sufficient evidence to charge Mohammad Bashir with one offence of preparation of terrorist acts and three offences of sharing terrorist publications with Shamie and others with the intent to encourage acts of terrorism.

We got to talking about National Security law, hacktivism, and terrorism. I had been Wired's correspondent on Anonymous, and probably understood The hacktivist collective better than anyone. They had recently tore through the net, hacking companies and governments like they were wet paper towels. I was explaining to my fellow nerds that Anonymous was very similar to Al-Qaeda. Though in form only, not in content.

Her fiance, Shannon Johnson, was a restaurant inspector there. She didn't panic until, driving home, she heard on the radio that the victims were employees of the desert city's environmental health department. She grabbed her phone and dialed Shannon's number over and over, but it kept going straight to voicemail. That's when, she said, she knew, "in my bones," he was gone.

Trump said in an address last night from Florida, where he's spending Thanksgiving weekend, that the suspect "was flown in by the Biden administration in September 2021, on those infamous [ Operation Allies Welcome] flights." Trump added: "[W]e will not be deterred from the mission the [wounded] service members were so nobly fulfilling. ... I have directed the Department of War to mobilize an additional 500 troops to help protect our capital city."