German authorities believe that Islamic State terrorists have stolen over 11,000 blank Syrian passports, confidential documents seen by the Bild am Sonntag newspaper reportedly reveal.

Fresh evidence submitted in a major 9/11 lawsuit moving forward against the Saudi Arabian government reveals its embassy in Washington may have funded a “dry run” for the hijackings carried out by two Saudi employees, further reinforcing the claim employees and agents of the kingdom directed and aided the 9/11 hijackers and plotters. Two years before the airliner attacks, the Saudi Embassy paid for two Saudi nationals, living undercover in the US as students, to fly from Phoenix to Washington “in a dry run for the 9/11 attacks,” alleges the amended complaint filed on behalf of the...

A Philadelphia mother who admitted to plotting to travel to Syria to aid the Islamic State group and spent years spreading the terrorist organization’s message online said she isn’t an evil person before being sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday. Authorities said Keonna Thomas lived a double life, one as a hardworking mother of two children, the other as an outspoken online personality who spread violent propaganda, took steps to travel to the Middle East and maintained close relationships with radicalized figures, including an Islamic State fighter who prosecutors said she married online.

US banking regulators ordered Pakistan's Habib Bank to shutter its New York office after nearly 40 years, for repeatedly failing to heed concerns over possible terrorist financing and money laundering, officials said Thursday. Habib, Pakistan's largest private bank, neglected to watch for compliance problems and red flags on transactions that potentially could have promoted terrorism, money laundering or other illicit ends, New York banking officials said.

Ways that terrorist groups end: Converted into a legitimate political process. (Negotiation) 43%; Law enforcement took out 40 percent. Ten percent won. Only 7 percent, were taken out by military force.

A suicide bombing on Tuesday in a busy commercial area in Kabul, near a string of banks and not far from the U.S. Embassy, killed at least five people, Afghan officials said. According to Basir Mujahid, spokesman for the Kabul police chief, the explosion likely targeted a branch of the privately owned Kabul Bank. The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan's compound is located about 500 yards down the road from the bank.

The US president said there would be a new approach to dealing with Pakistan in a speech on Monday evening. "New" is a bit of a strong word. "No partnership can survive a country’s harboring of militants and terrorists who target US service members and officials," Trump said. "It is time for Pakistan to demonstrate its commitment to civilization, order, and to peace."

Venice's right-wing mayor has ordered cops to shoot ANYONE who shouts 'Allahu Akbar' - rather than risk a terror attack. The phrase in Arabic for 'God is greatest' has been shouted in multiple terrorist incidents across the continent. The Times reports that Italian mayor Luigi Brugnaro claimed that his city Venice was safer than Barcelona - where 14 people died being run down by a van last week.

Russian investigators have arrested one of the country’s most prominent theatre directors for fraud, in a case that many in the arts world fear is part of a crackdown on dissenting voices. Kirill Serebrennikov stands accused of embezzling 68m roubles (£900,000) of government funds. He was questioned by investigators on Tuesday and denied the allegations, Russian agencies reported. The director will spend the night in prison and a court will decide on Wednesday whether he should be remanded in custody or put under house arrest.

Boko Haram has dramatically increased the use of children in suicide bomb attacks on civilians in Nigeria, UNICEF reported Tuesday. There has been a four-fold increase in the use of weaponized children as part of the Islamist insurgency which has ravaged the country’s northeast for eight years, UNICEF said in a statement. So far this year, 83 children have been used as "human bombs," the majority of whom were girls.

When Abdelbaki Es Satty came to Ripoll, a small town of 10,000 people in Catalonia’s Girona province, around 100 kilometers north of Barcelona, in 2015, Muslims here were grateful. “It is getting harder to find an imam, so it was a big surprise when he turned up,” says Hammou Minhaj, the secretary of a section of Ripoll’s Muslim community, known as Annour.

Thousands of Spaniards set out on a pilgrimage of peace Friday along the same street that was a scene of horror less than 24 hours before. Under the hot Mediterranean sun, they clapped and paused at makeshift memorials to the dead along La Rambla — the boulevard that is ancient Barcelona’s beating heart.

A seven-year-old boy with dual British-Australian nationality was killed in the Barcelona terror attack, Catalan police have confirmed. Julian Cadman's family had appealed for information after he apparently becoming separated from his mother. He is one of 13 people to have been killed when a van ploughed into crowds on Barcelona's Las Ramblas on Thursday.

A spokesman for the Barcelona Jewish Community on Friday rejected predictions of doom from the local chief rabbi, vowing that the city’s Jews would not abandon the city in the wake of the deadly attack by Islamic terrorists.

Harry Athwal, 44, from Birmingham had been holidaying in Spain when the attackers drove down Las Ramblas at speed, killing 13 people and injuring more than 100. One of their victims was a young boy aged about seven but hero Athwal refused to let him die alone. The 44-year-old project manager was in Barcelona visiting his sister for a spontaneous trip to celebrate his own son Khye’s eighth birthday.

Isis has claimed responsibility for a stabbing attack in Russia that injured eight people, the group's Amaq news agency has said. A man was shot dead by police after knifing people apparently at random in the Siberian city of Surgut on Saturday morning. Russian authorities earlier declined to comment on whether the incident was being treated as a terrorist attack and were said to be keeping an open mind about the attacker's motive.

A woman says she has survived the Barcelona van attack months after also being caught up in the terrorist rampages in London Bridge and Paris. Julia Monaco, 26, was shopping with friends when a van ploughed through nearby crowds killing 13 people and injuring more than 100.  It was her third brush with terror while travelling through Europe this year.

Donald Trump is a boring bigot. By that I mean he couldn’t be more predictable when it comes to his response to terrorist acts committed by Muslims as opposed to white supremacists. We saw yet another example Thursday after the horrible terror attack in Barcelona. Within minutes of hearing about the incident many – including myself – tweeted that if the attacker turns out to be Muslim, Trump won’t wait for any more facts. He will instead instantly call it “radical Islamic Terrorism.

Police are hunting four men thought to be behind the two terror attacks which killed 14 people in Catalonia, amid fears the death toll could have been much higher had the group not been forced into action by an accidental explosion. Moussa Oukabir, Mohamed Hychami, Younes Abouyaaqoub and Said Aallaa have been named in Spanish press as suspected members of the 12-strong terror cell which plotted Europe's latest terrorist outrage.

Law enforcement officials tell CBS News there is intelligence that indicates the Barcelona attack that left 14 dead and more than 100 injured was more than just an ISIS-inspired attack. CBS News national security analyst and former homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush, Fran Townsend, said on "CBS This Morning" the attack looks like it was "much more directly controlled than merely inspired."