September 13, 2020 David Wurmser: High-stakes Afghan-Taliban peace talks open as Trump seeks to halt ‘endless wars’ Exactly 19 years and one day after the 9/11 attacks masterminded by Afghanistan-based Al Qaeda terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people in the U.S., Secretary of State Mike Pompeo joined representatives of the Taliban and the Afghan government in Qatar on Saturday to kick off peace talks.
September 11, 2020 Wolf says 'lone, homegrown' terror threat is top DHS focus 19 years after 9/11 Nineteen years after Al Qaeda attacked America, the terror threat to the United States has "changed and it's morphed over the years," Acting Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf told "Special Report" Friday.
September 11, 2020 Derrick Van Orden: This Sept. 11 Antifa is attacking us from within — President Lincoln had good advice Now our cities are burning, occupied, and under attack from Antifa — a small group that believes some of the same things as the 9/11 terrorists.
September 11, 2020 Defense Secretary Esper: Since Sept. 11 attacks, our heroic military has successfully fought terrorism We have dealt devastating blows to Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups around the world by eliminating key leaders, cutting off resources, and crippling their attempts to orchestrate future attacks.
September 11, 2020 Daniel Hoffman: America now more vulnerable than at time of Sept. 11 attacks — we need a forward defense One of the most critical lessons of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was that we need a robust forward presence to protect us, especially against threats emanating from ungoverned spaces.
September 8, 2020 Ex-FBI informant in 1993 Islamic terror cell says they would pray for God to ‘enhance the explosion’ of their bombs A former FBI informant who was embedded in an Islamic jihadic terror cell in New York City following the 1993 World Trade Center bombing said they constantly prayed to God to enhance the potency of their bombs in their upcoming attacks.
September 3, 2020 ISIS launched more than 100 attacks in Iraq in August, a sharp uptick from previous month The remnants of ISIS in Iraq claimed 100 attacks across the embattled country over the past month alone, according to an assessment by the Terrorism Research and Analysis Consortium (TRAC) released on Thursday – marking a 25% uptick from July.
September 2, 2020 Federal appeals court finds NSA phone metadata program illegal A federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday that a National Security Agency program that collected the metadata from billions of phone calls made by Americans was illegal and possibly unconstitutional despite upholding the conviction of four Somali immigrants charged in a terror-fundraising case in which the information was used.
August 28, 2020 Israel claims Turkey is granting passports to Hamas members Turkey has long been a NATO ally, but its growing support for the designated terror group Hamas is said to be fracturing diplomatic ties with both Israel and the United States.
August 27, 2020 Minneapolis woman accused of trying to spark fires at university in 2018 pleads guilty to terror charges A Minneapolis woman accused of starting fires at her university pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal terrorism charges in connection with her attempt to recruit fellow Muslim students to join Al Qaeda, prosecutors said.