An 18-year-old from Mint Hill, North Carolina, is accused of plotting a deadly New Year’s Eve attack in support of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, before FBI agents moved in to stop him. The suspect was identified as Christian Sturdivant, who planned to stab civilians at public locations using knives, firearms and hammers,…
US Federal authorities stopped an ISIS-inspired attack planned for New Year’s Eve, allegedly by an 18-year-old North Carolina man. Christan Sturdivant from Mint Hill was arrested for plotting to use knives and hammers to harm people, according to the details revealed by the Justice Department on Friday.The plan was to allegedly attack people inside a…
NEW DELHI: Intelligence agencies are alarmed and closely monitoring the expansion of terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK). Satellite imagery and photographs reveal the construction of a new “dual-use facility” in the Neelum Valley district.Since November, LeT accelerated the infrastructure build-up of the new centre, named “Jamia Masjid Ibn Taymiyah wa Markaz,” being erected in…
NEW DELHI: Border Security Force on Sunday said that Pak-backed terrorist launching pads are active across the LoC even after the security forces destroyed several of them in PoK during Operation Sindoor.“Several terrorist launching pads across the LoC were destroyed during Operation Sindoor, but some launching pads are still active where there is the presence…
SRINAGAR: Soldiers shot dead two infiltrators attempting to cross the LoC in Keran sector of J&K’s Kupwara, about 140km north of Srinagar, the Army said Saturday. The gunfight, part of “Op Pimple”, followed specific intelligence on an infiltration attempt Friday evening. Troops detected “suspicious activity”, challenged the group and came under “indiscriminate fire”, the Army…
FBI director Kash Patel on Friday said that a “potential terrorist attack” planned to rock Michigan over the Halloween weekend was thwarted. In a post on X, Patel added that multiple subjects were arrested who were allegedly planning a violent attack. “This morning the FBI thwarted a potential terrorist attack and arrested multiple subjects in…