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Showing posts with label Terrorism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Terrorism. Show all posts

Wednesday, 22 March 2017

Westminster attack: Knife-wielding terrorist kills at least 4

BREAKING:Four people are confirmed to have died in a car and knife attack on Westminster in central London, including a police officer who was protecting Parliament and the suspected assailant, who was shot dead by armed police.

Sunday, 19 June 2016

See What Anonymous Hacker did to Isis twitter Accounts

A hacker from the group Anonymous has broken into pro-Isis twitter accounts and filled them with gay pride messages and pornography in the wake of the Orlando night club shooting.

Phrases such as “make love not war” and “I’m gay and I’m proud” appeared on the Isis profiles.
The accounts were hacked in response to the Orlando shootings.

Tuesday, 14 June 2016

ISIS Leader Al-Baghdadi killed in U.S led Airstrike

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the supreme leader of the Islamic States (ISIS) and head of its Caliphate, has been reportedly killed in a U.S led airstrike in Syria.
Al-Baghdadi killed (Photo Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

According to reports from multiple sources Al-Baghdadi, 44, born Ibrahim Awwad Ali Muhammad al-Badri al-Samarrai was injured in an airstrike on Friday and later died from his wounds. There has been no official statement from the U.S. government about these developments. According to several sections of the Arabic media, al-Baghdadi was killed in the de facto capital of the Islamic State, the city of Raqqa. He was accompanied by several commanders of ISIS at the time of the airstrike, several of whom are either injured or killed.

Wednesday, 27 April 2016

Female Suicide Bomber Wounds 13 In Turkey's Bursa

A suicide bomber blew herself up in the Turkish city of Bursa on Wednesday, wounding 13 people in the latest attack to strike the country, officials said.

The bombing took place near Bursa's 14th century Grand Mosque, a historic symbol of the city that was the first capital of the Ottoman empire.

Tuesday, 5 April 2016

News: Buhari is winning war against Boko Haram - US Govt

The United State government has acknowledged the efforts of the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration in curbing the activities of the dreaded Islamist group, Boko Haram in the northeast of Nigeria.

US secretary of state, John Kerry, while Speaking at a joint press conference with Nigeria's foreign affairs minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, echoed that the Buhari led administration had reduced the capacity of boko haram.

Sunday, 3 April 2016

Leader of Ansaru terrorist group has been Arrested

The leader of a splinter group 'Ansaru' of the dreaded terrorist group, Boko Haram, known for kidnapping expatriates has been arrested in a breakthrough military operations on Friday in Lokoja, Kogi State capital.

According to military spokesman Brigadier General Rabe Abubakar, Notorious Khalid al Barnawi whom the US had place a  $5m (£3.5m) bounty on his head after branding him one of three Nigerian "specially designated global terrorists" in 2012 was arrested on Friday.

Sunday, 27 March 2016

Suicide bomber kills at least 65 in Lahore as Christian celebrates Easter

Just a few days after the Brussels double suicide attacks that killed at least 34, Another suicide bomber struck today near a crowded children's playing area in Lahore Pakistan killing at least 65 people and hundreds injured, many of them children as Christians were celebrating Easter Sunday.

Officials said the bomber had detonated the explosives, packed with ball bearings, near a children's playing area in the popular Gulshan-i-Iqbal park.

Witnesses said they could hear children screaming as people carried the injured in their arms, while frantic relatives searched for loved ones in nightmarish scenes at the park near the centre of the city of eight million.

Doctors described frenzied scenes at hospitals, with staff treating casualties on floors and in corridors, as officials tweeted calls for blood donations.

Friday, 25 March 2016

US Special forces kills ISIS second in Command

The united States military today revealed that ISIS second in command was killed in a major strike against the terrorist group earlier this week.

Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli, better know as Haji Imam and considered to be the deputy of ISIS leader Omar al-Baghdadi was killed by special forces. According to CNN reports. US special forces had launched an operation to try and capture him alive but ended up in a gun fight with Isis fighters that resulted in him being shot and killed.

Friday, 18 March 2016

TERRORISM: Police in Belgium arrest Paris attacks lead suspect

After a fierce gun battle in Brussels suburb earlier today, the lead suspect in the Paris terrorist attacks last year that claimed the lives of over 100 people has been arrested.

Police authorities said, Salah Abdeslam and two other suspects are now in custody.

According to AFP, French police sources said, lead suspect Abdeslam suffered an injury to his leg during the raid.

Sunday, 13 March 2016

TERRORISM: Car bomb in central Ankara kills dozens

A car bomb ripped through a busy square in central Ankara Sunday, killing at least 34 people and wounding 125, 19 seriously, officials said, the latest in a spate of attacks to hit Turkey.

Ambulances rushed to the scene on Kizilay square, a key commercial and transport hub close to the city's embassy area, where the blast reduced several vehicles including a bus to burnt-out wrecks.

Tuesday, 23 February 2016

TERRORISM: Boko Haram displays extraordinary resilience - Salkida

Who should Nigerians believe? The Federal Government or Ahmad Salkida on the successes recorded in the ongoing war against Boko Haram, bet you remembered Ahmad Salkida, he's the only Nigerian journalist known to have access to the Boko Haram leaders. He revealed what he claims is all the truth about the current state of the war against the insurgents. 

He claimed that the news that the deadly Boko Haram sect is hungry, disoriented, and on the run according to the Minister of Information Lai Mohammed obviously shows a direction wide away from reality, says top level security source. 

Sunday, 21 February 2016

SUICIDE: 11-year-old ISIS 'Jihadi Cub' kisses father before blowing himself up

Oh My God! This is so disheartening, A Disturbing video footage has been released by the ISIS of an 11-year-old child jihadi, identified as Abu Imara al Omri kissing his father's outstretch hand before going on to blow himself up in a suicide attack near Aleppo, Syria.

Thursday, 11 February 2016

Graphic Photos: Horror of injuries suffered by victims of Boko Haram

This is just too sad! The grim images of amputated limbs, shattered bones and skin ravaged by burns of victims of the two female suicide bombers who blew themselves at the internally displaced people (IDP) camp in Dikwa in Borno State that killed 51 on Tuesday morning will only remind you of this lines from legendary Afro beat king " them leave sorrow, tears and blood, there regular trademark."


Such cases have become a familiar sight in the hospitals of Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, since Boko Haram Islamists began their deadly insurgency nearly seven years ago.

Friday, 5 February 2016

English Speaking Child Jihadi behead man in new ISIS video

Another barbaric video has emerge allegedly by the ISIS, which shows a young, English speaking boy sawing off the head off a man in orange jumpsuit.

The propaganda video which is thought to have been filmed in Aleppo, Syria shows the boy armed with a dagger pointing down the camera lens, the child issues a chilling threat to the United States for arming rebel groups to fight the terror group in Syria.
He says: 'Oh America, these are the soldiers you armed and you spent money on to fight the Sharia of Islam.

Wednesday, 3 February 2016

9/11 Attacks: Bin Laden inspired by Egyptian Pilot who crashed into Sea - New reports

According to new reports, Osama Bin Laden was inspired to carry out the 9/11 deadly terrorist attacks on the World trade centre by Egyptian  pilot, Gameel Al-Batouti, who crashed EgyptAir Flight 990 into the Atlantic ocean in murder-suicide on October 31, 1999, killing all 217 people aboard, including 100 Americans.
Bin Laden (L) Pilot Gameel Al-Batouti (R)

The experienced pilot, 59, who was flying from Los Angeles to Cairo, overrode the flight's autopilot and sent the plane nosediving into the Atlantic Ocean. While terrorism was considered as a possible motive, investigators found he had been facing disciplinary issues at work and was about to be banned from flying transatlantic routes.

Tuesday, 2 February 2016

Passengers evacuated as bomb threat grounds TAP flight in Portugal

A bomb threat on-board a Lisbon-bound passenger plane, forced authorities to ground the flight at Faro airport in Portugal's southern region of Algarve, a popular tourist destination among British holidaymakers.

According to locals, all 38 passengers on the TAP flight TP1900 were promptly evacuated.

Sunday, 31 January 2016

At least 60 killed as ISIS suicide bombers attacks Shiite shrine in Syria

The Islamic States group has claimed responsibilities for the bombing that killed at least 60 people, including 25 Shiite fighter and wounded dozens near Syria's holiest Shiite shrine outside the capital Damascus.

According to SANA news agency, the first blast was caused by a car bomb that went off at a bus station by a public transport garage near the Sayyida Zeinab shrine. Two suicide bombers then detonated their explosives belts as people began to gather at the scene of the first explosion.

Saturday, 16 January 2016

UPDATE: 20 killed, 126 hostages freed at Burkina Faso Hotel

UPDATE ON SPLENDID HOTEL ATTACKS: Finally security forces has freed 126 hostages in the early hours of Saturday, hours after terrorist struck under the cover of darkness.

According to Alpha Barry, Burkina Faso's foreign minister, 20 people were killed in the attacks. he further said that some of the freed hostages have been hospitalized.

Gunmen take hostages in 'terror attack' at the Splendid Hotel in Burkina Faso

Six gunmen suspected to be members of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), have stormed a hotel in the west African city of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, taking hostages and burning vehicles in what the French embassy described as a terrorist attack.

Thursday, 14 January 2016

TERRORISM: Explosions, gunfights leave at least 7 dead in Jakarta

Attackers set off explosions at a Starbucks cafe in a bustling shopping area of downtown Jakarta and waged gun-battles with police Thursday, leaving bodies in the streets as office workers watched in terror from high-rise windows

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