Mar 19 Istanbul bomber who killed four, including two Americans, linked to ISIS By Michael D. Regan, Elisabeth Ponsot A suicide bomber hit a section of Istanbul popular with tourists on Saturday, killing at least four others and wounding dozens. Continue reading
Mar 18 Watch 2:13 Four months after Paris attacks, Belgian police detain primary suspect By PBS News Hour The main suspect in last November’s deadly Paris terrorist attacks, which killed 130 people, has been apprehended after a shootout in Brussels. Twenty-six-year-old French national Salah Abdeslam was shot in the leg and detained by Belgian police during a confrontation… Continue watching
Mar 14 Watch 5:59 News Wrap: Deadly car bomb in Ankara; Amtrak train derails in Kansas By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, Turkey blamed Kurdish separatists for a car bombing in Ankara Sunday that killed at least 37; the Turkish military arrested 11 people and carried out airstrikes in retaliation. Also, an Amtrak train derailed early Monday… Continue watching
Mar 11 New Pentagon program will pay tech inventors to think like terrorists By Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American DARPA’s new “Improv” program wants hackers to weaponize common gadgets in order to anticipate the next big threats. Continue reading
Mar 09 Watch 3:11 News Wrap: Special forces capture Islamic State chemical weapons chief By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Wednesday, U.S. special forces captured the Islamic State group’s chemical weapons chief in a raid in northern Iraq last month, while recent follow-up airstrikes destroyed IS chemical facilities. Also, U.S. and Somali forces are reported to… Continue watching
Mar 07 Watch 7:22 Can security forces screen refugees arriving in Europe? By PBS News Hour As more and more Middle Eastern refugees look to an increasingly overwhelmed Europe for asylum, concerns over terrorist infiltration are growing. Human rights activists say such worries are nothing more than xenophobic scaremongering, while military officials and counterterrorism experts contend… Continue watching
Mar 03 Watch 6:42 ISIS is recruiting more children to carry out massacres By PBS News Hour A new report found there were three times as many suicide attacks in the Middle East committed by children this year compared to last. Experts blame Islamic State propaganda that glorifies martyrdom for indoctrinating orphaned and disaffected children to extremist… Continue watching
Mar 02 What causes some Muslim-Americans to become radicalized? By artsdesk, Peggy Robinson Peter Bergen studied how homegrown and self-radicalized terrorism develops in the U.S. for his new book "United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists."… Continue reading
Feb 29 Watch 6:14 Cameroon, Nigeria join forces to free Boko Haram hostages By PBS News Hour Hundreds of hostages held by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram were freed over the weekend after a joint raid by Cameroonian and Nigerian forces. The raid followed increased U.S. military efforts to cooperate with regional governments against the jihadist… Continue watching
Feb 29 Watch 6:21 News Wrap: Uncertainty persists over nascent Syrian ceasefire By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, the three-day-old Syrian ceasefire has drawn mixed reactions. The UN asserts the truce is holding “by-and-large,” but opposition groups in Syria are requesting U.S. intervention against ongoing government airstrikes around Aleppo and Damascus. Also, a… Continue watching