July 5, 2017 Suspect aimed to create ISIS sleeper cell, was connected to Texas attackers, feds say The feds on Thursday arrested a man in North Carolina who allegedly aspired to create an Islamic State sleeper cell in the U.S. and who authorities said was in close contact with a pair of Texas extremists who plotted an attack on the “Draw the Prophet Muhammad” cartoon contest in 2015.
July 5, 2017 DC Metro Transit police officer charged with aiding ISIS A Washington, D.C., Metro Transit police officer who was a convert to Islam and once dressed up as Jihadi John for Halloween was charged on Wednesday with trying to provide material support to ISIS -- the first time a law enforcement officer has been charged with an ISIS-related crime.
July 5, 2017 Feds zero in on Orlando terrorist's widow as she drops out of sight Federal investigators continued Wednesday to methodically retrace Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen’s recent activities and contacts, while zeroing in on his wife, who may have known about her husband’s evil plan well before he burst into a gay nightclub in Orlando and killed 49 people.
July 5, 2017 Suspect accused of hacking computers to expose US troop data for ISIS pleads guilty A Kosovo citizen has pleaded guilty to hacking computers to expose US service members' personal data on behalf of the Islamic State.
July 5, 2017 Orlando probe intensifies as feds eye gunman's wife, possible ties to international terror Federal authorities in Orlando and around the nation are scrambling to connect dots in the wake of Sunday's massacre by an Islamist terrorist, with potential charges looming for the gunman's wife as early as Wednesday and agents tracing poossible ties to radical Muslims in the U.S. and abroad.
July 5, 2017 Number of Air Force bombs dropped on ISIS hits 7-month high The U.S. Air Force dropped more bombs on the Islamic State terror group in June than any time in the past seven months.
July 5, 2017 UC Berkeley student confirmed dead in Nice terror attack The University of California at Berkeley confirmed Sunday that one of its students was among the 84 people killed after a terrorist rammed a truck into a Bastille Day crowd in the French city of Nice.
July 5, 2017 Maryland imam praises ISIS beheadings A Muslim cleric in Maryland, who has openly endorsed the Islamic State terror group and funded at least one Muslim convert who was arrested for buying illegal explosives, has not been charged or arrested because, according to authorities, he hasn't broken any laws.
July 5, 2017 ISIS news agency releases video of Germany train attacker claiming to be soldier of caliphate The Islamic State released a video on Tuesday showing the extremist who wielded an axe during a train attack in Germany, in which he boasts how he would carry out a “martyrdom operation” that would make the world forget about the terror attacks in France.
July 4, 2017 Iraqi prime minister hails 'big victory in Mosul' Iraq's prime minister on Tuesday congratulated his fighters on "the big victory in Mosul" — even as fighting with Islamic State (ISIS) militants continued in Mosul's Old City neighborhood where Iraqi forces are about 250 yards from the Tigris River and facing increasingly fierce resistance.