Man faces 20 years in jail for Islamic State terrorist plot in Kansas City
A 20-year sentence and lifetime supervision will deter Robert Lorenzo Hester, Jr. and others like him from from the "clarion call" of the Islamic State,...
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U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo warns that Iran must be held accountable for Baghdad attacks
U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said Iran must be held accountable for its proxies’ attacks on American forces in Baghdad, warning that such violence...
Lebanese authorities thwarted Islamic State attack on US Embassy in Beirut
Lebanon’s Directorate of General Security has announced that it has foiled an attack on the US Embassy in Beirut, allegedly by a Daesh militant. In...
U.S. airstrike targets Al-Shabaab compound in Somalia
A Feb. 17 U.S. airstrike took out an al-Shabab compound near Jilib, Somalia, according to U.S. Africa Command. AFRICOM didn’t say whether any members of...
U.S President Trump pushed the CIA to find and kill Hamza bin Laden over higher priority targets
When intelligence officials briefed President Donald Trump on the most worrisome terrorist threats during the first two years of his tenure, they regularly mentioned the...
Iran-backed group launched attack near small garrison in Syria housing American special operators
A U.S.-backed Syrian partner force said Sunday that an Iranian-backed group launched an attack inside an agreed upon deconfliction zone. Maghaweir al-Thowra, an anti-ISIS U.S.-backed...
Rockets land near the US embassy and base housing coalition troops in Baghdad
In yet another attack on facilities in Iraq housing American personnel, a number of rockets landed early Sunday near the US embassy and an Iraqi...