By Don Snyder | Fox NewsThe Islamic State caliphate may have fallen in the Middle East, but the terrorist group still strikes fear in Germany.A newly released German government intelligence report for 2018 finds a high level of danger from ISIS returnees. Of the more than 1,000 Germans who traveled to Syria and Iraq to fight for the terrorist group, 350 are back in Germany. Others have died, or remain in Kurdish prisons, mainly in Syria, with a small number in Iraq.Some of the returnees are in German jails, while others await trial. Some are in hiding after slipping through the European Union’s porous borders. The German government has admitted having completely lost track of more than 160 of the former ISIS militants, the DW reported.The report by Germany’s domestic security agency, Bundesamt fur Verfassungsschutz (BFV), warns that the returnees, who are glorified by domestic radical Islamic groups, may commit...

South China Morning Post China hosts Taliban delegation to discuss Afghan peace process, counterterrorism issues    * Beijing has paid great attention to the evolving situation in Afghanistan in recent years, foreign ministry says * China supports Afghans resolving their problems themselves through talksReuters China recently played host to a Taliban delegation as part of efforts to promote peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan, Beijing said on Thursday.Representatives of the fundamentalist movement, which has been fighting for years to expel foreign forces and defeat the US-backed government in Kabul, have been holding talks with US diplomats for months.The focus has been the Taliban’s demand for the withdrawal of US and other foreign forces in exchange for guarantees that Afghanistan will not be used as a base for militant attacks.Taliban negotiators have also met senior Afghan politicians and civil society representatives, including in Moscow recently, as part of a so-called intra-Afghan dialogue to...

  Federal Bureau of Investigation Early Terrorism Investigation Terror Comes to U.S. Soil - The Bomb ‘Outrages’ of 1919 Late one evening, a series of mysterious figures placed powerful bombs outside nine deliberately chosen residences stretching from Boston to Cleveland.A carefully coordinated campaign of terror had begun.The targets included three judges, a state representative, a silk manufacturer, an immigration official, a mayor, Catholic priests, and the U.S. attorney general.The first two bombs exploded at around 11:15 p.m. on June 2, 1919—a century ago this month. By 1:00 a.m. the next morning, all of the devices had detonated.The force of the explosions, each fueled by around 20 pounds of dynamite, was massive. Entire neighborhoods were shaken by the blasts. Homes were destroyed or badly damaged. Many windows were completely blown out. Flying glass and debris wounded several people, including a young girl. One night watchman was killed.In the nation’s capital, Attorney...

Stars And Stripes By Phillip Walter Wellman | STARS AND STRIPESKABUL, Afghanistan — A lecturer at a partially U.S.-funded university in Afghanistan’s capital was arrested on suspicion of recruiting students to join Islamic State, the country’s top intelligence agency said Monday.Three of his suspected recruits, who were accused by authorities of organizing several deadly ISIS attacks in Kabul, also were arrested, the National Directorate of Security said in a statement.Two of the suspected recruits were students at the university. The third was related to one of the students.U.S. and Afghan forces have been unable to eliminate ISIS’s local affiliate, known as Islamic State-Khorasan Province, which first emerged in 2014 and says it aspires to carry out attacks on U.S. soil.Read more: https://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/lecturer-at-us-aided-afghan-university-arrested-accused-of-recruiting-for-isis-1.589387...

Is Facial Recognition the New Fingerprinting—or Something Much Worse? State DMVs are building a vast national digital identification database for federal law enforcement. by Ronald BaileyYour face is your ID (Ekkasit Keatsirikul/Dreamstime)Federal law enforcement agencies have been using facial recognition technology to mine state driver's license databases for information, reports the Washington Post. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) simply email requests to state departments of motor vehicle registration, asking them to match suspects' faces with those collected and stored in their driver's license databases. Generally speaking, state bureaucrats have been happy to cooperate.The Government Accountability Office recently revealed that the FBI can scan about 640 million pictures, including not just mugshots but driver's licenses and passport photos. At a congressional oversight committee hearing last month, Rep. Jim Jordan (R–Ohio) observed that many state's DMVs "have just given access...

Associated Press Iran breaches key uranium enrichment limit in nuclear deal By JON GAMBRELL TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Monday began enriching uranium to 4.5%, just breaking the limit set by its nuclear deal with world powers, while it is still seeking a way for Europe to help it bypass U.S. sanctions amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington.Full Coverage: Iran's nuclear programThe acknowledgement by the spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran to The Associated Press shows that the Islamic Republic trying to increase pressure on those still in the 2015 nuclear deal. It also comes just days after Iran acknowledged breaking the 300-kilogram (661-pound) limit on its low-enriched uranium stockpile, another term of the accord.The International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, confirmed that Iran surpassed the enrichment threshold.Experts warn that higher enrichment and a growing stockpile could begin to narrow the one-year window Iran...

The Hill A terrorist's bioweapon could kill millions — and there's little we can do to stop it By Dr. Marc Siegel, opinion contributor The nuclear weapons programs in Iran and North Korea have been a primary concern to world security for more than a decade. But there is another significant worldwide threat to consider — bioweapons. And with the advent of genetic editing — where the DNA or RNA of a virus or bacteria can be modified to form a deadly weapon — the terrorist arsenal of weapons could be about to change for the worse.Biological agents have long been a concern for national security. After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to five news media outlets and two Senate offices, killing five people and infecting 17. That case led to a focus on anthrax as a weapon and, at first, to fears...

Federal Bureau of Investigation Airport Terrorist SentencedCanadian Man Stabbed Michigan Airport Police Officer in 2017 When a Canadian man stabbed an airport police officer in the neck at the airport in Flint, Michigan, investigators worked quickly to find out all they could. Why did he do this? Why Flint? Was anyone helping him?The victim was saved by other officers and a Bishop International Airport employee on the scene. The attacker, later identified as Amor M. Ftouhi, a 51-year-old Tunisian native who had lived for years in Canada, was immediately arrested.Working closely with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the FBI’s Detroit Field Office and its Joint Terrorism Task Force pieced together information about Ftouhi’s life and the days leading up to the June 21, 2017 attack. Agents fanned out across the country and reviewed surveillance footage from locations Ftouhi had visited in the U.S. The RCMP searched Ftouhi’s home and...

Barnabas FundJihadists massacre entire Christian village in Mali killing at least 100, many burnt to deathAt least 100 men, women and children were slaughtered in Sobame Da, a mainly-Christian village in the Mopti region of central Mali, by heavily-armed Islamist extremists on 10 June.A Barnabas Fund contact described it as the “worst massacre in Mali since 1946”. He said the jihadists encircled the isolated village of ethnic Dogon people at night and set fire to “everything that moved” in a “well-targeted attack”.Many of the victims’ bodies were burnt – some charred beyond recognition. There are difficulties identifying the remains and the death toll is currently estimated to be between 100 and 135 people.CaptionA church building interior in a mainly-Christian village that was fire damaged in a jihadi attack. Several ethnic Dogon villages in the Mopti region of central Mali are being targeted“They burned the entire village including all the people...

The Defense Post Islamic State claims killing of Chechnya police officer in grenade and knife attack by Fergus Kelly Islamic State claimed one of its fighters killed a police officer in the Achkhoi-Martanovsky district Chechnya on Monday, just eight days after an ISIS-claimed attack in regional capital Grozny.ISIS in a Tuesday, July 2 statement claimed a fighter from its Caucasus Province affiliate “managed to attack a Chechen police officer with a knife and a hand grenade in the village of Bamut … which led to his death.”A law enforcement officer was killed and several others injured at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Bamut, around 40 km (25 miles) west of Grozny, the capital of the Chechnya region in Russia’s North Caucasus, Tass reported, adding that the assailant was killed.On June 23, two people were injured in an ISIS-claimed knife attack near Chechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s residence in Grozny. The...

The Jerusalem Post Opinion After Khomeini’s taking power in Iran, another Hitler emerged in the Middle East and the world. By FRED SABERI  After the end of World War II in Europe and the victory of the Allies over the Nazis, any return to Nazist symbols and behaviors was prohibited. Considering the widespread crimes of the Nazis in Europe, which led to the killing of more than 50 million people during the war, European countries, and later the European Union, laid down rigorous laws to condemn and ban the adoption of Nazi behaviors and symbols in Europe.One of the most important Nazi behaviors that was banned after the war in Europe was “antisemitism.” But antisemitism in Europe is not specific to Hitler and his National Socialist party; and contrary to the general perception, antisemitism has a long history in Europe. In fact, Nazism and all other antisemitic currents in Europe...

by Soeren Kern  •  Gatestone Institute Swedish Television surveyed officials in the five Swedish municipalities — Gothenburg, Stockholm, Örebro, Malmö and Borås — that are home to most of the 150 IS returnees and found that those municipalities combined only have knowledge of the whereabouts of a maximum of 16 adults and 10 children. "The United States is asking Britain, France, Germany and other European allies to take back over 800 ISIS fighters that we captured in Syria and put them on trial... The alternative is not a good one in that we will be forced to release them..." — U.S. President Donald Trump, Twitter, February 16, 2019. The Wall Street Journal, in a recent editorial, "The West's Foreign Fighter Problem," noted that European governments face a "Catch-22" situation: either repatriate and prosecute their jihadis, or risk that they disappear off the radar and carry out new attacks in Europe....

Asharq Al-Awsat Washington Adds Chief of Hezbollah Intelligence Unit to Terrorist List The United States designated on Tuesday Pakistan’s Balochistan Liberation Army and Lebanese Hezbollah operative, Husain Ali Hazzima, as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), the State Department said in a statement.Additionally, the US has amended the terrorist designations of Jundallah, which has started using the name Jaysh al-Adl.According to the statement, the new measures seek to deny Hazzima, BLA and Jaysh al-Adl the resources to plan and carry out terrorist attacks.They also expose and isolate organizations and individuals and deny them access to the US financial system.Therefore, all of their property and interests subject to US jurisdiction are blocked, and US persons are prohibited from engaging in any transactions with them. Read more: https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1795776/washington-adds-chief-hezbollah-intelligence-unit-terrorist-list  ...

Today in History, July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence adopted Associated Press Today is July 4. This is Independence Day. On this date in: 1776The Declaration of Independence was adopted by delegates to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. 1826Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both pass away on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. 1888The Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States of 1888, held in Cincinnati at Music Hall and the surrounding area, began its four-month run in honor of the city’s 100th birthday.1917During a ceremony in Paris honoring the French hero of the American Revolution, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Charles E. Stanton, an aide to Maj. Gen. John J. Pershing, declared: “Lafayette, we are here!” 1939Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees delivered his farewell speech in which he called himself “the luckiest man on the face of the earth.”1947The small central California town...

Air passenger declares he's God, storms cockpit to 'end terrorism'; flight grounded: reports By Danielle Wallace | Fox NewsA passenger on a flight headed to New York City from Puerto Rico Wednesday tried to enter the cockpit while shouting he was God in an episode that forced the pilot to ground the plane, reports said.“I am God! Tomorrow San Juan is going to disappear!,” the suspect, later identified as Carlos Ramírez, 30, allegedly shouted as he stormed down the plane’s aisle toward the cockpit. It happened shortly after Delta Flight 579 took off from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport.“I came to save the world, and I’m going to end terrorism,” Ramírez also allegedly yelled before flight attendants and some passengers were able to overpower him.“When he got to the middle of the plane the flight attendants tried to stop him,” Moraima Garcia Rohena, a passenger on the plane, told the...

Military Times By: Diana Stancy Correll The Navy’s Blue Angels will perform a flight demonstration at President Donald Trump’s Fourth of July celebration, according to Interior Secretary David Bernhardt.Bernhardt announced on June 19 that the Fourth of July “Salute to America” celebration would highlight this military by including military demonstrations and flyovers. CNN reported Thursday that the Blue Angels would perform at the event, and Bernhardt posted a photo of the Blue Angels on his Twitter account Thursday hinting he would unveil a “big announcement” Friday. “This is going to be a fantastic Fourth of July with increased access across the National Mall for the public to enjoy music, flyovers, a spectacular fireworks display, and an address by our Commander-in-Chief,” Bernhardt said in a statement Friday. “We received an extraordinary donation for a phenomenal fireworks display, and our colleagues from the Department of Defense will be providing a one-of-a-kind music...

Pakistan's large-scale terrorism industry prevents it from behaving like 'normal neighbour': Jaishankar PTILONDON: Pakistan's state-sponsored "large-scale industry of terrorism" prevents its government from behaving like a "normal neighbour", external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday.In a live video link from New Delhi to address the Leaders' Summit as part of UK-India Week in Buckinghamshire near London, he called on countries like Britain to be more proactive in calling out nations that obstruct the international rules-based order because "a lot of what Pakistan is doing today, affects the rest of the world, including the UK"."This kind of large-scale industry of terrorism, which is done with the blessing of the state because the state thinks it is an instrument against the neighbour ... it is increasingly unacceptable to India, and more and more countries are coming around to that view," he said, in response to a question about the political situation...

Fox 10 Phoenix Federal agents warn of possible terror attacks targeting the Fourth of July By Hailey Winslow, FOX 11PASADENA, Calif. (FOX 11) - Federal agents are warning about possible terror attacks targeting the Fourth of July.Authorities from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and National Counterterrorism Center released a bulletin to law enforcement agencies across the country, warning them to be extra vigilant this Fourth of July.Warnings focused on homegrown terrorists inspired by groups like ISIS or al-Qaeda are now routine, but this bulletin warns of “domestic” terrorists, defined as political radicals driven by domestic issues like taxes, abortion and white supremacy. “We’re seeing a lot of activity among the far right, white national world here in the United States and in most places, it’s the homegrown people who are responding to homegrown politics and conflicts who are out committing these acts,” said California State University San Bernardino Professor...

US airstrike kills Al Qaeda fighters ‘plotting external attacks’ against American citizens: militaryBy Lucia I. Suarez Sang | Fox News A U.S. military airstrike Sunday struck an Al Qaeda leadership and training facility in northern Syria where militants were “plotting external attacks” against American citizens, officials said.The U.S. Central Command said Monday in a statement the strike occurred near the northern province of Aleppo.The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition-linked war monitor, said Monday the strike killed eight members of the Al Qaeda-linked Horas al-Din, which is Arabic for “Guardians of Religion.”The Observatory said the dead included six commanders: two Algerians, two Tunisians, an Egyptian and a Syrian.Al Qaeda-linked militants control wide swaths of northern Syria, mostly in Idlib province, the last major rebel stronghold in the war-torn country. Read More: https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-airstrike-kills-al-qaeda-fighters-plotting-external-attacks-against-american-citizens-military...

Fox 13 Tampa Bay   TERRIFYING: The Seminole County Sheriff's Office released body cam footage showing a suspect dragging a deputy several hundred feet on the side of I-4 with his car as he tried to flee a traffic stop.     Fox 13 Tampa Bay Story: http://bit.ly/2Xdla4a...