Mar 22 Watch 3:58 News Wrap: Trump suggests torture as anti-terror tactic By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, following the morning’s bombings in Brussels, GOP front-runner Donald Trump proposed expanding laws to allow torture to disrupt future attacks. Also, federal prosecutors say an “outside party” showed the FBI how to access the encrypted… Continue watching
Mar 22 Watch 4:55 Europe bolsters security after Brussels terror attacks By PBS News Hour The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a series of terror attacks in Brussels Tuesday morning. Bombings at the airport and a subway station in the Belgian capital killed at least 31 people and injured more than 180, putting the… Continue watching
Mar 22 U.S. cities step up security after Brussels attacks By Corinne Segal Officials in New York City and Washington, D.C., bolstered security measures on Tuesday after explosions in the Brussels airport and subway killed dozens. Continue reading
Mar 21 Watch 4:28 The choice of fear in a city targeted by terrorists By PBS News Hour Decorated Marine veteran and writer Elliot Ackerman lives with his family in Istanbul -- the site of four suicide bombings this year alone. Finding himself confronted by violence again, Ackerman reflects on living in a place targeted by terrorists. Continue watching
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