Terrorism News

A man from Uzbekistan pleaded guilty Friday to plotting with an Islamic terror organization in his home country to kill President Barack Obama with an automatic rifle he bought from an undercover federal agent in Alabama. Ulugbek Kodirov entered the plea during a hearing in Birmingham before U.S. District Judge Abdul K. Kallon, an Obama [...]

A look at the Afghan prisoners at Guantanamo that U.S., Afghan and other officials have said are being considered for release as part of a peace deal with the Taliban: Mohammad Fazl Fazl has has been held since January 2002, one of the first prisoners brought to the prison at the U.S. base in Cuba. [...]

Iraqi officials say two separate car bombs have exploded in a Shiite district in eastern Baghdad, killing eight people and wounding 32 others. Police officials say the first attack targeted an early morning gathering of day laborers in Baghdad’s Sadr City on Tuesday. Seven people were killed and 21 were wounded, according to police. Minutes [...]

A Pakistani commission investigating the 2008 terror attack in Mumbai will visit in early February, but will not be allowed to interrogate the lone surviving gunman, Indian officials said Monday. The visit is the result of intricate negotiations between the nuclear-armed neighbors, but is unlikely to resolve tensions over whether Pakistan is sincerely working to [...]

Police say two bombs have detonated in the Northern Ireland city of Londonderry, but nobody has been reported wounded because of telephoned warnings from IRA dissidents. Police say they evacuated local homes and businesses before Thursday night’s twin blasts in Northern Ireland’s second-largest city. They can’t immediately confirm the extent of damage caused. Both explosions [...]

A band of al-Qaida militants seized full control of a town 100 miles south of the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday, overrunning army positions, storming the local prison and freeing at least 150 inmates, security officials said. The capture of Radda expanded already significant territorial conquests by the militants, who have taken advantage of the [...]

A car bomb blew up outside the northern city of Mosul on Monday, killing at least eight people, Iraq officials said, in the latest in a series of attacks to target the country’s Shiite majority since the U.S. withdrawal last month. Violence has surged across Iraq since the last American troops left the country, with [...]

A bomb exploded close to a bus in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, a government official said. Iqbal Khan said the motive for the attack in the Khyber region, close to the Afghan border, was not known. Most of the dead were passengers on the bus, Khan said. Islamist militants with [...]