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Feds: U.S. Soldier Conspired to Plot Attacks on 9/11 Memorial, Maximize Lethality on Troops
A U.S. soldier is facing charges he communicated with someone he thought was a member of ISIS to plan attacks on New York City landmarks — including the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan — and provide tactical military advice to terrorists, federal officials said Tuesday. Cole James Bridges, 20, of Stow, Ohio, is charged with attempted material support for terror and…
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Inside the Case Against ISIS Militants Charged in Americans' Beheadings
As two Islamic State militants faced a judge in Virginia last month, Diane Foley listened from home through a muffled phone connection and strained to make out the voices of the men prosecutors say kidnapped her son before he was murdered. Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh stand accused of belonging to an ISIS cell dubbed “the Beatles,” an incongruously…
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Oregon Man Charged With Conspiring to Aid Islamic State
An Oregon man was indicted after authorities said he supported the Islamic State group by distributing articles on how to kill and maim with a knife and encouraging readers to carry out attacks
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Man Gets 30 Years in 2nd Sentencing for Beheading Plot
A man convicted of leading a plot to behead blogger Pamela Geller on behalf of the Islamic State group will serve even longer behind bars after he was sentenced for a second time Monday and ordered to 30 years in prison. David Daoud Wright was originally sentenced to 28 years in prison in 2017 but was ordered to be sentenced…
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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis Out After Syria Withdrawal
President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will retire in February 2019. Mattis submitted a letter to Trump saying the president deserves a secretary of defense with views more close to his on things like alliances and building an international order. The move comes after Trump abruptly announced that U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Syria,…
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Barr Says US Won't Seek Death Penalty Against ISIS ‘Beatles'
The Justice Department has notified the British government that it will not pursue the death penalty against two Islamic State militants suspected in the beheadings of Western hostages.
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Brooklyn Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS, Encouraging Attacks in NYC
A Brooklyn man was arrested and charged with attempting to provide material support to ISIS and distributing bomb-making instructions, according to federal prosecutors.
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Fact Check: Trump's Overblown Boasts About Military
President Donald Trump has been speaking a lot about the military, law and order.
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IS Extremists Step Up as Iraq, Syria, Grapple With Virus
A recent wave of deadly attacks in Iraq and Syria claimed by the Islamic State group shows that the extremist group defeated last year is taking advantage of governments absorbed by the economic and health impacts of the novel coronavirus to reassert itself
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2 US Marines Killed During Raid on ISIS Cave Complex in Iraq
Two U.S. Marines were killed in Iraq during a mission to clear out an extensive mountain cave complex where ISIS fighters were hiding and living, three military officials said Monday.
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US to Seek More Help From NATO to Counter ISIS
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper says he is looking to NATO allies for more help countering the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq and in bolstering U.S. defense efforts in the Middle East
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General: US Committed to Syria Fight; Missions Up Against ISIS
U.S. troops at military outposts ín eastern Syria asked variations of the same question to their top commander Saturday: What is our future here? What are the goals we need to think about? Gen. Frank McKenzie, the U.S Middle East commander, knows the future is not certain. But at least for today, he said, “this is an area where...
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Bureaucracy to Brutality: New Evidence Reveals ISIS Hierarchy
Documents compiled by a U.S.-based Syrian rights group reveal how Islamic State militants used one of their most powerful bureaucratic bodies to regulate daily life and impose and execute penalties.
The new evidence could be used in international prosecutions.
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ISIS Claims Pakistan Mosque Bombing as Death Toll Rises to 15
Pakistani officials raised the death toll from a mosque bombing in the country’s southwest to 15 people on Saturday, as the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack.
The powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan province, during the evening prayers on Friday.
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Federal Authorities Arrest NYC Man Who Allegedly Wanted to Shoot Up Times Square, Spoke of Explosives and Suicide Vests
A 22-year-old Queens man who lived with his parents and allegedly wanted to shoot up Times Square has been arrested after federal authorities who had been surveilling him say he tried to buy guns, a senior law enforcement official familiar with the investigation told News 4 Friday.
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Trump, Pence Honor a Canine ‘Hero'
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on Monday honored Conan, a military canine who took part in the raid that killed ISIS leader Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi, during an event at the White House.
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Navy Secretary Considers Resigning Over Trump's Meddling in SEAL Case
Military leaders hoping to keep the Secretary of the Navy from quitting lobbied President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One to stop intervening in the case of a Navy SEAL accused of murder, five current and one former military and defense officials told NBC News. On Thursday Trump waded once again into the case of Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher,...
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Navy SEAL's Rank Reduced, Walks Free in ISIS Fighter Case
NBC 7’s military reporter Bridget Naso was there when Chief Eddie Gallagher walked out of court a free man.
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Judge: NJ-Born Woman Who Joined ISIS Is Not an American Citizen
A federal judge has ruled the U.S. government was correct when it determined a New Jersey-born woman who joined the Islamic State group was not an American citizen despite where she was born.
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US Presses European Countries to Take Islamic State Fighters
European and other members of the international coalition fighting the Islamic State group must take back and prosecute their nationals detained in Iraq and Syria to help keep ISIS from regaining territory, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday. Pompeo told foreign ministers and senior officials from some 30 coalition members that it’s imperative that they hold thousands of detained...