We are still working from several hypotheses. One of them is whether this is an order from a government entity. This is quite natural given the target – the US embassy – and the security situation the world is in today.
This was not random violence. This was a planned attack motivated by extremist ideology and inspired by a violent foreign terrorist organization. With this, she promptly raised the profile of both the suspects, Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, and of ISIS itself. It hardly seemed to matter that no evidence has surfaced that directly ties these men to the larger movement.
He made this statement to officers while being placed in the back of a police vehicle following their arrests. And at the precinct after being advised of his Miranda rights and waiving those rights, Kayumi said in recorded post-arrest statements that he had watched ISIS propaganda on his phone and that his actions that day were partly inspired by ISIS.
Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, were charged with multiple crimes for throwing explosive devices at anti-Islam protesters in New York City last weekend. Both men were inspired by ISIS, with Balat writing on paper that he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. They face charges including attempted provision of material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, use of a weapon of mass destruction, transportation of explosive materials, and unlawful possession of explosive devices.
The two pro-Muslim fanatics - Ibraham Kayumi, 19, and Emir Balat, 18 - both self-radicalized in recent years and traveled to Turkey and other terror-training hot spots, law enforcement sources close to the case told The Post. Balat spent more than three months in Istanbul last year, while Ibrahim flew to Istanbul and Saudi Arabia in 2024, and made a trip to Melbourne, Australia in 2019.
The victim only survived because the defendant missed major blood vessels by a few millimetres. He approached the 30-year-old victim from behind, among the concrete steles of the memorial, and inflicted a 14-centimetre-long cut to his throat with a knife. The victim, who was visiting the memorial with two friends, was badly wounded but managed to stagger out of the steles before collapsing in front of the memorial.
The security threat from terrorist groups, especially TTP but also ISIS-K residing in Afghanistan, has been increasing, which made 2025 the deadliest year in a decade for Pakistan in terms of casualties from such violence. The surge in cross-border terror attacks from Afghan soil since the Taliban returned to power has been confirmed by successive reports of the UN Security Council's sanctions monitoring team.
In a Telegram post, the Ukrainian cell of the Base claimed a successful operation to eliminate an enemy agent in Odesa in a car bombing, which was later reported on in local Ukrainian media. This traitor, whose name we cannot yet disclose in the interests of the investigation, served Ukraine, but his heart was sold to the enemy, said the post, which was inferring the border service officer was assisting Russia in the south of the country.
He and fellow plotter Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed discussed making the IED using instructions in an al-Qaeda manual. Iqbal was caught on covert recordings telling Ahmed: I was looking and drove past like the TA centre, Marsh Road. At the bottom of their gate there's quite a big gap. If you had a little toy car it drives underneath one of their vehicles or something.
Armed extremists attacked a pair of villages in western Nigeria overnight, a lawmaker and medics said on Wednesday, killing at least 162 people in one of the deadliest assaults of its kind in recent months. The attacks targeted the villages of Woro and Nuku in Kwara state, Mohammed Omar Bio, a member of parliament representing the area, told the Associated Press.
An Ontario man who was a member of a neo-Nazi group and has pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges told a Toronto judge Friday that he was a "complete monster at times," but has turned over a new leaf since his arrest in 2023. Matthew Althorpe said he regrets his past actions and extremist beliefs, as his lawyer Robb MacDonald asked Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly to consider a sentence of 12 to 14 years less than the 20 years sought by Crown prosecutors.
In any country, a drone strike on a civilian train would be considered in exactly the same way purely as terrorism. There is not and cannot be any military purpose in this, Zelenskyy wrote on the Telegram messaging app. He said the latest bombardment undermined peace efforts and urged allies to step up pressure on Moscow to end the war.
In total, 19 dual nationals were stripped of their French passports in 2025, according to figures published in the police gazette l'Essor de la gendarmerie. The process followed convictions in the French courts, all for terrorism-related offences. The figures represent a fall on the previous year, when 41 people had their French passports removed. In 2023, 11 dual nationals lost their French citizenship, in 2022 six did, and four each in 2021 and 2020.
Authorities are investigating an incident caught on video of a man assaulting someone trying to protect a fellow Caltrain passenger whom the attacker was verbally harassing. The incident took place on December 23 at the San Carlos station, and the Good Samaritan was taken to the hospital with facial fractures. [KTVU] Parts of Marin County experienced heavy flooding Friday, and a flood advisory was in effect along the coast of the Bay Area through Sunday.
Two men have been convicted of planning an Islamic State-inspired attack on a mass gathering of Jews in the Manchester area. Walid Saadaoui, 38, and Amar Hussein, 52, had a visceral dislike of Jewish people and wanted to cause untold harm, the court heard. But the plot was scuppered as they unknowingly laid bare their scheme to an undercover operative (UCO).
Naveed Akram, 24, faces charges of murdering 15 people and injuring dozens more in the shooting at a Hanukah celebration on 14 December. His 50-year-old father, Sajid Akram, 50, is the second alleged shooter and died at the scene. The police fact sheet outlining their allegations against Naveed reveals investigators believe three pipe bombs and a tennis ball bomb were thrown towards the crowd before the pair began shooting.
The British Foreign Office has issued a warning there is a "high threat of a terrorist attack" globally and in Dubai and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) which could affect UK interests. Brits are being warned against possible terrorist attacks this Christmas as they are "likely to try and carry out attacks in the UAE." The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) warned in their latest travel guidance, that there is a high threat of a possible attack targeting Jewish and Israeli linked areas.
Investigators say the deadly Bondi Beach attack is being treated as terrorism' after evidence of ISIL influence found. The Australian police say the two men accused of carrying out a deadly shooting at a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach that killed 15 people were inspired by the ISIL (ISIS) group. Police also confirmed on Tuesday that they were investigating a trip the two suspects undertook to the Philippines last month.
Actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found fatally stabbed Sunday at their home in Los Angeles. Their 32-year-old son, Nick Reiner, has been arrested, and has spoken publicly about struggles with drugs and periods of homelessness as a teen. [New York Times] Governor Gavin Newsom is hiring two CDC officials fired by Trump to work for the California health department.
Australia is reeling from what is simultaneously its deadliest terror and antisemitic attack . Sixteen people have now been declared dead in the attack, where two gunmen opened fire at the so-called Chanukah by the Sea celebration, an annual event to mark Hanukkah held at Bondi Beach in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, capital of the state of New South Wales.
