Recent active shooting incidents have underscored the need for a coordinated and consistent law enforcement response to these incidents. And two recent actions—the passage of the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act and an administration initiative targeting violent crime—have enhanced FBI efforts to better assist its law enforcement partners who are almost always the first [...]
A North Carolina man who the FBI says spoke of killing U.S. Army soldiers as part of a personal jihad has pleaded guilty to possessing a stolen firearm.
Among the many unanswered questions about the two Tsarnaev brothers accused of the Boston Marathon bombing is why, days after the attack, they were heading to the suburb of Watertown and its manicured lawns and tulips when police picked up their trail and began a chase. Investigators want to know what drew the accused bombers [...]
A man who was fatally shot by an FBI agent in Florida knew one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, a friend of the victim said Wednesday. FBI Agent Dave Couvertier said in a statement that an unidentified agent encountered Ibragim Todashev, of Orlando, while conducting official duties.”The suspect is deceased,” the statement [...]
On the 40th anniversary of the cold-blooded murder of a New Jersey state trooper, the fugitive convicted of the killing, Joanne Chesimard, has been named a Most Wanted Terrorist by the FBI—the first woman ever and only the second domestic terrorist to make the list. Officials from the FBI and the New Jersey State Police [...]
The American teen arrested with a pair of Kazakh students in connection with the Boston Marathon bomb probe is facing hard time and likely is under intense pressure to tell everything he knows, legal experts say. Robel Phillipos, 19, who grew up in Cambridge, Mass., and went to high school with chief suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, [...]
Senior scientists have criticised the “appalling irresponsibility” of researchers in China who have deliberately created new strains of influenza virus in a veterinary laboratory. They warned there is a danger that the new viral strains created by mixing bird-flu virus with human influenza could escape from the laboratory to cause a global pandemic killing millions [...]
The FBI has released new images of three men the bureau is seeking for additional information related to the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans including U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens. In a brief statement, the FBI wrote on its website that the three men “were [...]
A laptop, some empty fireworks and a jar of Vaseline landed three friends of Boston Marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in jail Wednesday, charged with trying to throw investigators off their buddy’s trail. Those are the items federal prosecutors say Azamat Tazhayakov, Dias Kadyrbayev and Robel Phillipos took from Tsarnaev’s dorm room at the University [...]
The hunt is on. U.S. authorities are stepping up their efforts to track down the editor of a digital magazine published by Al Qaeda after details emerged that the surviving Boston bomber told investigators he and his brother learned how to build explosives by reading the online publication. The CIA is believed to be spearheading [...]
With the Boston marathon bombing suspect in a prison hospital, investigators are pushing forward in the U.S. and abroad to piece together the myriad details of a plot that killed three people and injured more than 260. FBI agents have wrapped up a two-day search at a landfill near the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where [...]
Canadian police and intelligence services arrested two suspects in Toronto on Monday and thwarted a “major terrorist attack” in Canada, media reported. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police scheduled a 3:30 p.m. ET news conference to provide details, the National Post reported. The Canadian Broadcasting Corp., citing unidentified “:highly place” sources, said the operation was coordinated [...]
A suburban Chicago teenager has been arrested on terrorism-related charges and accused of seeking to join an Al Qaeda-affiliated group in war-torn Syria, the FBI announced Saturday. Abdella Ahmad Tounisi was arrested Friday night as he attempted to board a flight from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport to Turkey, which borders Syria, the FBI said. He [...]
2 Suspects in Boston Bombing – FBI Releases Video and Images The FBI has identified two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, releasing photos and video showing them and asking the public to help locate them. The suspects, both of whom wore a backwards white ballcap and the other who wore a dark cap,were captured [...]
An envelope sent to an office of Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) included a substance that has tested positive for Ricin, two sources say. Read More
North Korea moves missile launchers, issues safety warning to foreign embassiesPublished April 05, 2013FoxNews.comQuestions surround North Koreas missile moveUS officials: North Korean missiles on the moveCurrent crisis with North Korea different than years… Read More
The Pentagon confirmed Tuesday that it is positioning an array of military assets near the Korean Peninsula, as the White House stressed that the “entire national security team” is focused on the escalating threats out of Pyongyang
The U.S. government unsealed papers Monday detailing the arrest and interrogation of a senior terror leader, a development one official called “an intelligence watershed.”For the past two years, Ahmed Warsame has been cooperating with U.S. interrogators, revealing inside details about training, operatives and potential plots. Warsame was a key commander for al Shabaab, the al [...]
Free to do as he pleases, living out his days in the suburbs of northern New Jersey, a Syrian national who is a known associate of the 9/11 hijackers never has to worry about deportation by the U.S. government, according to an investigation by Fox Files. Read More
