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On Thursday, a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter claimed that the Department of Homeland Security demanded access to her mobile phones when she was crossing the border at the Los Angeles airport. The case highlights the powers that border agents purport to have, and how vulnerable sensitive information can be when taken through airports…
On Tuesday the forces retook one the terror group’s headquarters, which was located in a hospital, being used as a command center and logistics hub. But progress into Manbij city has been slow, with landmines littering the roads in and snipers attacking advancing troops. Many Isil fighters are still holed up in the city, and…
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan places the blame for this weekend’s failed coup attempt on an Islamic preacher and one-time ally, Fethullah Gulen (above), who now resides in Pennsylvania with a green card. Erdogan is demanding the U.S. extradite Gulen, citing prior extraditions by the Turkish government of terror suspects demanded by the U.S.: “Now we’re saying deliver this guy…
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Saturday there were indications the attacker had been “radicalized very rapidly.” CNN learned Sunday that Bouhlel sent a text message shortly before Thursday’s attack to an unknown recipient saying, “Bring more weapons 5 to C,” according to a representative for the Paris prosecutor’s office. It appears Bouhlel also had…
Details are emerging about the man believed to have been behind the Nice attack – the third devastating terror attack on French soil in 18 months. Main points: Suspect identified as Franco-Tunisian with dual nationality, reports say French authorities have not yet released the name of the man killed by police after ploughing his truck…
Photo Police officers on Friday at the site where a truck barreled for more than a mile through a crowd watching a fireworks display in Nice, France. Credit Valery Hache/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images PARIS — The death toll from the terrorist attack on a Bastille Day fireworks celebration in the southern French city of…
Istanbul’s busy Ataturk airport was the target of a terrorist attack by three men on Tuesday. The attack took place near security checkpoints in the departures level of the airport. After firing on officers, the attackers apparently detonated bombs — the two large explosions crumbled the entrance of the…
A truck ploughed into a crowd of people in Nice on Thursday night, reportedly killing at least 84 people. Here is what we know so far. What happened? Prosecutors confirmed that at least 84 people were killed when the large white truck ploughed through a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in the southern city…
Dallas Police shield bystanders during a Black Live Matter rally in downtown Dallas on Thursday, July 7, 2016. Multiple media outlets report that shots were fired Thursday night during a Dallas protest over two recent fatal police shootings of black men. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News via AP) Late Thursday night in Dallas, snipers…
Secret FBI rules allow agents to obtain journalists’ phone records with approval from two internal officials — far less oversight than under normal judicial procedures. The classified rules, obtained by The Intercept and dating from 2013, govern the FBI’s use of national security letters, which allow the bureau to obtain information about journalists’ calls without going to a…