Officials said a man walked into the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Tex., and opened fire.

U.S. forces conducted airstrikes Friday in Somalia against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants, their first against the terrorist group in that country. U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) said Friday that U.S. forces conducted two separate strikes in Somalia, killing “several” ISIS members. The first strike happened at about midnight local time, while the second happened at about 11 a.m., according to AFRICOM.

Chat logs made available to ProPublica show talk of mass killings and the recipes that could be used to carry them out.

Newly declassified CIA files show how Osama bin Laden kept files on Prince Harry's planned Army mission to Iraq. And one expert believes the 9/11 mastermind - shot dead by US Navy SEALS in 2011 - was plotting to murder the royal during his military duties in the Middle East.

Yesterday, a lunatic driving a Home Depot rental truck, barreled down a bike bathalongside the Hudson River, intentionally striking pedestrians and anyone else unlucky enough to be in his way. Within a few minutes, eight would lay dead, along with another dozen or so injured. The attacker, who jumped out of the vehicle shouting, “Allahu Akbar,” while armed with only a fake weapon and a paintball gun, would be apprehended soon after taking a gunshot wound to the buttocks.

The "radicalized" suspect who killed eight people by driving his rented truck into a bicycle path in Lower Manhattan had meticulously planned the attack for weeks and left a note in his vehicle proclaiming that the "Islamic State would endure forever," law enforcement authorities said Wednesday. The suspect, Sayfullo Saipov, a 29-year-old truck driver from Uzbekistan, was shot and arrested by police Tuesday afternoon after emerging from the truck and waving what appeared to be a weapon.

Data from the Global Terrorism Database compiled into a stunning data visualization puts two decades of terrorist activity into startling perspective.

Stephen McGown set off from London on his motorbike for a trip of a lifetime to South Africa. But in Timbuktu he was kidnapped by Islamist militants.

A 19-year-old Syrian has been detained on suspicion of planning to carry out a terror attack in Germany. The man was ready to carry out the attack using highly explosive materials, according to prosecutors.

A 19-year-old Syrian man was arrested today, suspected of planning a “major terrorist attack” that would kill and injure as many people as possible, according to German authorities. The man, who was taken into custody in the northern German city of Schwerin, was "strongly suspected of having been planning an Islamist-motivated attack" using "highly explosive" materials, the German Federal Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.

Abu Shahed first realized his 11-year-old son was being brainwashed by ISIS when he saw the fourth-grader's textbooks. They were filled with images of "bombs, guns, machine guns, tanks, warplanes and other war symbols,” the father of four recalled. The militant group's black flag also featured in materials given to children at the ISIS-run school that Abu Shahed's son was forced to attend after the militants captured the Syrian town of Al Bukamal in 2014.

The forces fighting the remnants of the Islamic State group in Syria have tacit instructions on dealing with the foreigners who joined the extremist group by the thousands: Kill them on the battlefield. As they made their last stand in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, an estimated 300 extremists holed up in and around a sports stadium and a hospital argued among themselves about whether to surrender, according to Kurdish commanders leading the forces that closed in.

At least 300 others were wounded, officials said, and the president declared three days of national mourning after one of the deadliest attacks to hit Mogadishu.

'I am asking for anyone out there to talk about what’s going on here. To ask why Trump is letting us slowly die. I don’t have many days left.".. I haven’t had food in my stomach for 23 days. The 20 September was the day they told us they would no longer feed us. They have decided to leave us to waste away and die instead.I am in so much pain every minute that I know it can’t go on much longer. Now as each night comes, I wonder if I will wake up in the morning. When will my organs fail? When will my heart stop? I am slowly slipping away and no one notices.

A teenager who moved to Britain after his parents were killed in Iraq will go on trial in March over a bomb attack on a packed commuter train that injured 30 people in London in September.

A man suspected of planting a bomb at an airport in North Carolina was preparing to “fight a war on US soil”, the FBI has said. Michael Christopher Estes was arrested after an unexploded device was found at Asheville Regional Airport on Friday morning. The FBI’s criminal complaint states that Mr Estes admitted planting the bomb, which tests revealed contained Ammonium Nitrate, an explosive often used in terrorist attacks.

British jihadist Sally Jones has been killed in a US drone strike in Syria, The Sun has reported. The former punk rocker from Kent fled to Syria with her son in 2013 and became a leading recruitment officer for Islamic State. According to The Sun, the Government was informed by CIA chiefs in June that US forces had killed Jones, 50, in a missile strike close to the Iraq/Syria border.

Agent overseeing FBI investigation says ‘theories are great’ after sheriff speculates that Stephen Paddock could have had assistance

Will the 9/11 case finally go to trial? By Andrew Cockburn.

Lone offender attacks – sometimes called “lone wolf” attacks – make headlines fairly regularly. It’s not just the single shooter killing dozens and injuring hundreds in Las Vegas, but also shootings in Washington and Texas shopping centers.