Terrorism News

An Indonesian court has sentenced an Islamic militant to 18 years in prison for a series of mail bombs that targeted moderate Muslim leaders and police. Several people were injured in the attacks. The West Jakarta District Court ruled Monday that Pepi Fernando was guilty of violating the country’s anti-terrorism law. His group, uncovered last [...]

The top U.S. commander for Africa says he is increasingly concerned about the likelihood that terrorist groups in Somalia, North Africa and Nigeria want to coordinate their training, funding and terror activities. Gen. Carter Ham told Congress Wednesday that terror leaders from al-Shabab, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and Boko Haram in Nigeria want to [...]

The Obama administration outlined Tuesday when the FBI, rather than the military, could be allowed to retain custody of al-Qaida terrorism suspects who aren’t U.S. citizens but are arrested by federal law enforcement officers. The new rules issued by the White House resulted from a December compromise in Congress between the administration and a majority [...]

Indonesia’s highest court has reinstated the 15-year jail sentence of a radical Islamic cleric accused of setting up a terror training camp in western Indonesia. Supreme Court spokesman Ridwan Mansyur announced Monday the court rejected an appeal from Abu Bakar Bashir. He is known as the spiritual leader of al-Qaida-linked militants blamed for the 2002 [...]

A lawyer for a New York City man charged with building a homemade bomb to try to attack soldiers, police and other government targets, says she expects him to be indicted by a grand jury this week. Jose Pimentel is being held without bail on charges of weapons possession and conspiracy as terror crimes. She [...]

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 [...]