ISIS-inspired Utah teen tried to blow up high school, police say

A Utah teenager on Monday tried to blow up his high school with a homemade bomb, police said.
The same student, police said, hoisted a flag supporting the terror group ISIS last month.

Turkey detains ISIS-linked suspects after U.S. Embassy in Ankara shuts

Four Iraqi nationals with suspected links to the Islamic State group were arrested in connection with an investigation into threats against the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkish state media reported Monday.

New satellite photos show Iran establishing another base in Syria

Iran has built another permanent military base outside Syria’s capital city complete with hangers used to store missiles capable of hitting all of Israel, according to Western intelligence sources.

North Korean Leaders Used Brazilian Passports To Apply For Western Visas, Sources Say

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his late father Kim Jong Il used fraudulently obtained Brazilian passports to apply for visas to visit Western countries in the 1990s, five senior Western European security sources told Reuters.

Parents in Nigeria are wondering whether the government can keep their schoolgirls safe

Garba Tela’s wife did not want him to send their daughter to school in Dapchi. She feared Zainab would be an easy target for insurgents.

“They take girls there,” she told him.
Her prediction has proved accurate. Their 14-year-old daughter is one of 110 schoolgirls feared kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram militants in a raid on their school last Monday.

Congress to focus on background checks after Florida massacre

Republican leaders of the U.S. Congress on Tuesday said they were focused on improving background checks for potential gun buyers, less than two weeks after 17 people were killed at a Florida high school by a man with an AR-15 assault-style rifle.

Vermont shooting averted: Arlington student had ‘to tell someone’

They hadn’t been in touch for months, but when they did reconnect through Facebook messages, it didn’t take long for Angela McDevitt to see Jack Sawyer had grown despondent and, maybe, dangerous.

‘Some rescued’ after attack on girls’ school in Nigeria

Schoolgirls reportedly rescued but dozens missing following Boko Haram attack on a boarding school in Yobe state.

U.S. Embassy in Montenegro is attacked with hand grenade

An attacker threw a hand grenade at the U.S. Embassy in Montenegro’s capital and then killed himself with another explosive device, officials said Thursday.

Watch out. North Korea keeps getting better at hacking

In the latest indication that North Korea’s cyber operations are more sophisticated than commonly realized, computer security researchers have identified a group of government hackers and spies in the hermit kingdom who are capable of stealing documents from computers that aren’t connected to the internet.