Overview of today’s terrorism news
- More as it happens and for those among you using Twitter, instant news via @terrorevents
#Israel –#Hamas-linked video threatens to kill Israeli security leaders#USA#Russia –@CENTCOM says Russia likely supporting#Taliban#USA –#US issues updated travel warning for#Turkey due to threat from different terrorist groups#Denmark#Glostrup – Suburban#Copenhagen court keeps 2 men (18 & 19) under arrest for trying to join#IS in Syria#Iraq#Baghdad – Suicide tanker bomb explosion. Target: Arch checkpoint in the Al-Yousifia area south of Baghdad. Preliminary toll: 13 dead
** Updated preliminary toll: 17 killed, 40+ injured.
** The attack has now been claimed by#IS.
#Syria – Turkish PM Yıldırım and Nat Sec Council declare Turkish-backed#EuphratesShield op in Northern Syria is over: CNN.#UK#Birmingham – Man and a woman, aged 21 and 23, arrested in CT ops. Suspected of preparing a terrorist act.#Ghana breeding unseen#BokoHaram with emergence of Vigilante groups: Group#Canada#Montreal – Canadian airport employees showed signs of radicalization, visited#IS websites: report#Turkey#Istanbul – Syrian arrested in Turkey over recruiting#ISIS militants from Europe#UnitedStates#WashingtonDC – Suspect arrested for trying to ram police car near US capitol: media
** Police opened fire after driver struck police car
** The incident happened on Capitol Hill near the US Botanical Gardens
** Capitol Police Spokeswoman Malecki: incident appears to be criminal in nature.#Israel#Palestine – Israeli forces demolish 2 Palestinian homes in Jabal al-Mukabbir#Israel#Jerusalem – Palestinian woman shot, killed by IDF after alleged attempted stabbing#Belgium#Iraq – Belgian-Algerian FTF Mohamed Abdel Rahman has allegedly been killed in an air raid on an#IS HQ in Mosul’s al-Tenk area.#Iraq#Mosul –#IS‘s “health minister” killed in Mosul’s Old City: police#Nigeria#Sambisa –#BokoHaram‘s leader Abubakar Shekau is alive and allegedly is in the Sambisa woods: MoD.#Syria#Homs – Bus bombing, three dead: state media.
** Updated toll: 5 killed, 6 injured.#Turkey#Istanbul – CT operation: 13#PKK members arrested.#Bangladesh#Moulvibazar – Police siege two militant hideouts#Afghanistan#Jalalabad –#IS claims killing 2 police officers and injuring 1 other in an#IED attack.#Germany – ‘#Taliban commander’ caught in Germany after ‘countless’ attacks in#Afghanistan#Nigeria#Dikwa –#BokoHaram IEDs kill 2 security personnel & injures 3#Somalia#ElQohle – Large roadside bomb hits Ethiopian troops convoy. At least 1 vehicle destroyed. Casualties unknown.#Mali#Boulikessi – Attack on Malian gendarme post: 2 gendarmes killed and 1 missing.#Nigeria#KalaBalge – “I killed 18 civilians”, confesses 17-year-old#BokoHaram suspect#Germany – Number of people classified as dangerous -> Islamic terrorism: 616 – Right wing terrorism: 22 – Left wing terrorism: 6 (BKA)#Somalia –#AlQaeda says western & African forces cause the famine in the country and praises#AlShabaab‘a food distribution.#Israel –#IDF arrested 6 Palestinians suspected of terrorist activities overnight & closed 3 weapons factories in the#WestBank.
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