At least 74 schoolgirls were rushed to a hospital after falling ill from poison gas according to local officials.
Mass poisonings of schoolgirls has become a common tactic among the Taliban and other Islamic terrorist groups who believe women and girls should be kept illiterate and uneducated. Continue reading
A helicopter that was forced into an emergency landing ended in 11 foreign engineers being kidnapped by the Taliban according to officials in the region.
A storm forced the helicopter to land in the Azra District, a mountainous region under almost absolute Taliban control. Continue reading
Two foreign men living in Canada have been charged with plotting to blow up a passenger train with support from Al-Qaeda in Iran.
Officers with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police took Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, and Raed Jaser, 35, into custody Monday. The two men have been charged in connection with a plot to derail a VIA passenger train in the Toronto area. Continue reading
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is communicating with interrogators and has said that his Islamic faith was motivation for the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon.
Tsarnaev was officially charged today with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. He suffered a throat injury in his standoff with Boston police leaving him unable to speak. He has been communicating through writing. Continue reading
A top Chinese general, who has repeatedly denied the Chinese military is behind multiple cyber-attacks against the United States, has admitted during a public event that cyber-attacks are as serious as nuclear weapons.
General Fang Fenghui made his comments after meeting with the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Continue reading
Islamist terrorists in extreme northeast Nigeria launched an assault on military troops in the town of Baga, killing 185 civilians and essentially leveling the town.
The assault featured rocket-propelled grenades and heavy gunfire that resulted in the destruction of over 2,000 homes. Residents of the town fled into the bush and returned the next day to find human and animal corpses strewn all over the streets of the ruined city. Continue reading
The London Daily Mirror is reporting that the FBI is searching for a “sleeper cell” containing as many as 12 people in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings.
A source close to the investigation reported that over 1,000 FBI workers were tracking down the cell and had arrested a man and woman about 60 miles from Boston just before the capture Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Continue reading
Boston’s top cop is saying that the Boston Marathon bombers had planned to attack more people based on evidence discovered during the investigation.
Police Commissioner Ed Davis said that the terrorists had been carrying homemade bombs and grenades that they threw at police when cornered. Continue reading
Rescue teams have finally reached remote parts of China’s Sichuan province after the massive Saturday earthquake that has been estimated to have killed over 200.
Chinese state media say 207 are dead or missing and that the 6.6 magnitude earthquake has injured over 11,500. More than 1,300 aftershocks have rocked the region since the main quake struck around 8 a.m. local time Saturday. Continue reading
The Syrian Army was able to take control of a town in Damascus by killing at least 80 people including women and children.
The army captured Jdaidet al-Fadl after five days of intensive shelling and fighting. The state news agency said the troops inflicted “heavy losses upon terrorists” in the town but observer groups said that most of the dead were women and children, not rebel fighters. Continue reading