A former senior officer in Spain’s National Police Corps claimed the 2017 terror attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils were organized by the country’s secret service. Jose Manuel Villarejo said the attacks were a bid to destabilize Catalonia before the independence referendum there. The attacks in August of that year included a truck running over ...
A possible drone attack at Abu Dhabi International Airport that caused an explosion and a fire on Monday killed three people and wounded six. Abu Dhabi police identified the dead as two Indian nationals and one Pakistani. They also said an investigation was underway. Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for the attack. The Ira...
Six people were hospitalized after a shooting Friday night outside a popular concert venue in Eugene, Oregon. One of the victims was critically injured, Eugene police said. Authorities took five people to a hospital. A sixth victim went there on their own, police said. No arrests have been made at this time.
A German court on Thursday sentenced a former Syrian colonel to life in prison for crimes against humanity.The “historic” verdict marked the end of the first global trial over state-sponsored torture in Syria. Anwar Raslan was found guilty of overseeing the murder of 27 people at the Al-Khatib detention center in Damascus in 2011 and […...
The U.S. Justice Department said yesterday it has charged the leaders of the far-right Oath Keepers militia and 10 others for their involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill attack. Stewart Rhodes, the group’s leader and founder, was arrested Thursday in Little Elm, Texas. A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., indicted Rhodes and 10 [&h...
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of a woman who left Alabama to join ISIS, but then decided she wanted to return home. The justices declined to consider the appeal without comment Monday. Twenty-seven-year-old Hoda Muthana was born in New Jersey and grew up near Birmingham.
A Muslim civil rights group today called on Alabama State Representative Mike Holmes to drop his membership in the Sons of Confederate Veterans. “It is unacceptable for a lawmaker, whose duty it is to represent all constituents in his district, to be a member of an organization that honors traitors and white supremacists,” said Ibrahim [&helli...
