Terrorism News

A report released this week has at last confirmed what we Muslim Americans have long known to be true: the threat posed to US national security by the radicalization of its Muslim community is minuscule.

An image from Syrian State-TV shows residents and workers amid the rubble of a large explosion in Aleppo, Syria's second largest city, Feb.

The father of an admitted terrorist faced up to 40 years in prison at sentencing Friday after his conviction on charges that he destroyed evidence and lied to investigators to cover up his son's plot to attack the New York City subways in 2009 as one of a trio of suicide bombers.

"The entire world attests that America's days are over and her rule has gone and her minions in the land of Muslims -- their end has come," the man identified as However there was little cringing to be found among U.S. officials who said Zawahiri's message was old news.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - An Uzbekistan national charged with threatening the life of President Barack Obama was also charged Thursday with providing material aid to terrorism.

A Muslim convert from Brooklyn pleaded guilty Thursday to using a website he founded to post online threats against the creators of the "South Park" television show and others he deemed enemies of Islam.

British Prime Minister David Cameron and Jordan's King Abdullah II on Thursday agreed to cooperate over thus-far unsuccessful attempts to deport extremist cleric Abu Qatada from London to Amman, the U.K. leader's office said.

A British judge on Thursday sent nine men to prison for al-Qaida inspired plots to bomb the London Stock Exchange and set up a terrorist training camp.

Three conservative clerics whose arrests nine years ago heralded the beginning of Morocco's crackdown on Islamists called on Thursday for a new investigation into their country's worst terrorist attack.

A US drone attack in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghanistan border killed four suspected militants Thursday, intelligence officials said, the second such attack in two days.

A trial on terrorism charges has been scheduled to start Monday for an Indonesian man accused of making the explosives used in the 2002 Bali bombings.

In a high-stakes gamble, an imprisoned member of a Palestinian militant group has waged a hunger strike for almost two months, trying to draw attention to Israel's military justice system and its treatment of detainees who can be held without charge for lengthy periods.

A Utah production company announced on Wednesday that it has shot a movie based on the premise that Osama bin Laden rises from his watery grave and leads an army of zombie terrorists in a violent jihad of the undead.

A Canadian man in a New York court has admitted attempting to buy sophisticated technology for the now-defeated Tamil Tiger insurgents in Sri Lanka.

One of the street vendors who alerted police to a smoking vehicle in Times Square that was later found to be carrying explosives says he's planning to run for Congress.

Syrian forces pressed a relentless assault on the protest city of Homs yesterday, with dozens of civilians reported killed, hours after President Bashar al-Assad said he was committed to ending the bloodshed.

Secret documents suggest an Iraqi man facing charges of trying to funnel weapons and cash to al-Qaida operatives in his home country was "an agent of a foreign power," and his lawyers may not see or suppress those documents, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Ahmed Hussein Mahamud, 27, pleaded guilty yesterday in Minnesota to federal charges of helping to raise money for the Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab. Mahamud is from Westerville Ohio and formerly lived in Minnesota.

Omar Othman, better known as Abu Qatada, is seen at his North London home in October 2001.

There is much about the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian accused of attempting to explode a plastic device aboard a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day, that doesn't add up.