Topic: terror-attack

Visiting the 9/11 memorial

Visiting the 9/11 memorial

Roberto Schmidt, AFP
Posted at Sep 12 12:26 PM

Visitors walk at sunrise at the Empty Sky 9/11 Memorial in Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey on Saturday. Read more »

Remembering 9/11 terror attacks

Remembering 9/11 terror attacks

Andrew Kelly, Reuters
Updated as of Sep 10 02:32 PM

A person stands in the rain with a red rose at the 9/11 Memorial ahead of the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in Manhattan, New York City. Read more »

Indonesia to free cleric linked to Bali bombing

Indonesia to free cleric linked to Bali bombing

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 08 06:02 AM

JAKARTA - A radical cleric linked to the deadly Bali bombings is to be freed from prison Friday, stirring grief and anger among victims nearly 20 years after Indonesia's worst terror attack. Read more »

France attack: Church sexton had throat slit while preparing for Mass

France attack: Church sexton had throat slit while preparing for Mass

Caroline Pailliez and Matthias Galante, Reuters
Posted at Oct 30 09:34 AM

As he did every day, Vincent Loques, sexton of the Notre Dame church in the French city of Nice opened up the doors around 8:30 a.m. There were few people around; the first Mass of the day was not due to start for another two hours. But soon after he started work on Thursday morning, a Tunisian man armed with a knife entered the church and, over the course of 20 minutes, slit the 55-year-old sexton's throat, beheaded a 60-year-old woman, and badly wounded a third woman who was 44, according to prosecutors. Read more »

Remembering United Flight 93 on 9-11

Remembering United Flight 93 on 9-11

Gene J. Puskar, AP
Posted at Sep 11 01:42 PM

The memorial honors the 40 passengers and crew of Flight 93, who stopped the terrorists of the fourth plane in the 9-11 attacks from reaching their target by fighting the hijackers.  Read more »

Five killed in jihadist attack on Somali hotel

Five killed in jihadist attack on Somali hotel

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 11 02:44 PM

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Five people including three civilians were killed when jihadist militants stormed a hotel in Somalia's capital, police said Wednesday, adding that all five attackers had also died after an hours-long siege.   Read more »

Bangladesh sentences 7 to death for 2016 cafe attack

Bangladesh sentences 7 to death for 2016 cafe attack

Ruma Paulm, Reuters
Updated as of Nov 27 05:04 PM

DHAKA - A Bangladesh court on Wednesday handed death sentences to seven members of an Islamist militant group for plotting an attack on a cafe in 2016 that killed 22 people, mostly foreigners, in the south Asian nation's worst such incident.   Read more »

Three dead in Dutch shooting: Utrecht mayor

Three dead in Dutch shooting: Utrecht mayor

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 18 10:54 PM

Three people were killed and nine injured in a shooting in the Dutch city of Utrecht, the mayor said Monday, adding that authorities were working on the basis of it being a terrorist attack. Read more »

Christchurch tribute to attack victims

Christchurch tribute to attack victims

Jorge Silva, Reuters
Updated as of Mar 18 03:58 PM

People react after placing flowers at a memorial as a tribute to victims of the mosque attacks, near a police line outside Masjid Al Noor in Christchurch, New Zealand Read more »

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