LAS VEGAS—A Las Vegas man has been sentenced to federal prison for sexually abusing a young girl. Stephen Thomas Parshall, 38, was ordered to serve 33 years in a federal prison Monday, court records show. U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey in Las Vegas also sentenced Parshall to lifetime supervision upon his release. The years-long sexual […]
LONDON—A judge on Saturday adjourned legal proceedings against a serving soldier in the British army who is accused of terrorism and explosives-related offenses and remanded the 21-year-old in custody, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said. London’s Metropolitan Police said on Friday they had charged Daniel Abed Khalif from Stafford in central England with eliciting or […]
A man is facing terrorism-related charges after he allegedly rammed his car through a gate at a solar power plant near Las Vegas, setting the car on fire, and disabling the facility, according to police. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said its Counter Terrorism division identified the suspect as 34-year-old Mohammed Mesmarian, reported local media outlets. […]
NEW YORK—Frank James, the man accused of a shooting attack on the New York City subway in April 2022, told a court through his public defenders on Wednesday that he intended to plead guilty to federal terrorism charges. James has been charged in an attack on April 12 that injured 23 riders on a Manhattan-bound […]
“They see the regime as a terrorist … which doesn’t have any moral principles and wants to make an Islamic world, not just an Islamic Iran.” “They are looking for freedom; they are looking for dignity.” The Iranian regime is facing the most serious uprising in decades. Widespread protests erupted after a young woman died […]
The New York Police Department (NYPD) stopped a threat to the Jewish community on Saturday in a joint effort with the FBI, the police department said. “The FBI/NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force, NYPD Counterterrorism and Intelligence Bureau investigators, working with their law enforcement partners, uncovered a developing threat to the Jewish community on Friday,” NYPD […]
ISTANBUL—Six people were killed and 81 others wounded on Sunday when an explosion rocked a busy pedestrian street in central Istanbul in what Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called a bomb attack that “smells like terrorism.” Hundreds of people fled the historic Istiklal Avenue after the blast, as ambulances and police raced in. The area, in […]
NEAR KHERSON FRONTLINE, Ukraine—Russia on Tuesday took its case to the U.N. Security Council that Ukraine is preparing to use a “dirty bomb” on its own territory, an assertion dismissed by Western and Ukrainian officials as misinformation and a pretext for intensifying the war. Moscow sent a letter detailing the allegations to the United Nations […]
Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on Wednesday introduced a bi-partisan bill that would designate the Russian government as a “state sponsor of terrorism.” It comes the same day that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described Russia as a “terrorist state” after Russian forces fired a missile on the Karachunivske reservoir, which broke and flooded […]
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been charged under the country’s terrorism act for allegedly “threatening” police officers and a female magistrate in his rally speech on Saturday, according to local reports. A first information report (FIR) was filed against Khan on Sunday, stating that he “terrorized and threatened” additional sessions judge Zeba Chaudhry […]
