NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A fake explosive rigged with cardboard, sheets of paper and a household timer forced an Air France flight into an emergency landing in Kenya on Sunday, sending hundreds of passengers down emergency slides in what the airline’s CEO said was the fourth bomb hoax against the airline in recent weeks. The […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The man who bought the assault rifles used by his friend in the San Bernardino massacre was charged Thursday with terrorism-related counts. The FBI arrested Enrique Marquez, 24, on charges of conspiring with Syed Rizwan Farook to commit terrorist attacks in 2011 and 2012 that they never carried out. Marquez was […]
PARIS (AP) — The city of Paris has decided to collect and archive the notes, poems and drawings left by passers-by on informal memorials at the sites of the Nov. 13 attacks, to keep the memory intact of the moving and spontaneous show of solidarity and compassion toward the victims. The decision was made the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday vowed to accelerate the U.S.-led military campaign against the Islamic State in both Syria and Iraq, implicitly acknowledging that progress has been too slow as the extremist group expands its reach with deadly attacks beyond the Middle East. Speaking at the Pentagon after meeting with his National […]
HAWTHORNE, Calif. (AP) — Vandals spray-painted graffiti at two mosques in the Southern California city of Hawthorne and left a device that looked like a hand grenade in the driveway of one of the mosques on Sunday, prompting police to investigate both incidents as a hate crime. A bomb squad was called, and the area […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fears of terrorism are hanging over America’s holiday season, so President Barack Obama is planning a series of events this week aimed at trying to allay concerns about his strategy for stopping the Islamic State group abroad and its sympathizers at home. Obama’s visits to the Pentagon and the National Counterterrorism Center […]
PARIS (AP) — It took a text message from Syria to a mother in northeast France to reveal the identity of the third killer at the Bataclan concert venue in Paris: Your son died as a martyr Nov. 13. For nearly four weeks, police had failed to identify the third gunman who stormed the concert […]
In separate incidents, a pair of Fox News contributors got suspensions after making negative remarks towards President Barack Obama. Stacey Dash and Lt. Col Ralph Peters took turns in slamming President Obama during live broadcasts on the network on Monday. Earlier in the afternoon, Dash was featured on Fox News’ Outnumbered program where the panelists […]
In separate incidents, a pair of Fox News contributors got suspensions after making negative remarks towards President Barack Obama. Stacey Dash and Lt. Col Ralph Peters took turns in slamming President Obama during live broadcasts on the network on Monday. Earlier in the afternoon, Dash was featured on Fox News’ Outnumbered program where the panelists […]
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — The couple who carried out the San Bernardino massacre had been radicalized and had taken target practice at area gun ranges, in one case within days of the attack that killed 14 people, the FBI said Monday. In a chilling twist, authorities disclosed that a year before the rampage, Syed […]
12/07/15 – Roland Martin talks to Pierre Thomas, the Senior Justice Correspondent for ABC News, about ISIS, the power of social media, and President Obama’s…
12/07/15 – Roland Martin talks to Pierre Thomas, the Senior Justice Correspondent for ABC News, about ISIS, the power of social media, and President Obama’s presidential address about terrorism. Like BlackAmericaWeb.com on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
