The sun rose Friday morning over the Mediterranean city of Nice, devastated by what appears to be the latest, horrifying terror attack on French soil. At least 84 people have been reported dead after a truck careened through crowds on a seafront street, according to French media. Hundreds, if not thousands, were out on the […]
One person has been arrested after the bloody terrorist attacks in Belgium, state broadcaster RTBF reported Wednesday, though it wasn’t immediately clear if this means authorities have the man they’ve been looking for. The unnamed person was taken into custody in Anderlecht, one of the districts in the capital region of Brussels. Brussels is where, […]
Belgian authorities were searching Wednesday for a top suspect in the country’s deadliest attacks in decades, as the European Union’s capital awoke under guard and with limited public transport after 34 were killed in bombings on the Brussels airport and a subway station. Police conducted raids into the night and circulated a photo of […]
Claiming they were targeting a military convoy of the U.S.-led coalition, the Taliban on Monday took credit for a car bombing near Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan that killed at least one person and injured four others, reports CNN.
Three suicide bombers attacked a village market in Lake Chad Saturday, injuring more than 100 and killing at least 15 in what Chad officials believe to be the work of Boko Haram extremists.
Boko Haram has surpassed the number of fatalities claimed by the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS).
French police carried out about 150 raids across the country overnight, with officials saying Monday they had arrested a handful of terror suspects in the wake of the deadliest attacks inside France since World War II. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls confirmed the raids and said police had prevented several attacks in recent months, and […]
Sept. 15 marks the 50th anniversary of perhaps the most tragic episode of the civil rights movement. On that day Denise McNair, 11, Carole Robertson, 14, Addie Mae Collins,14, and Cynthia Wesley, 14, were killed in a terrorist-sponsored explosion at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. Their deaths overtook the hopeful mood […]
The civil rights era, Alabama’s congressional delegation introduced legislation Wednesday to bestow the Congressional Gold Medal to the four black girls who were killed in the 1963 bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church. If approved by the House of Representatives and the Senate, Addie Mae Collins, 14; Denise McNair, 11; Carole Robertson, 14; and […]
