The March 22 attack on a concert hall in a Moscow suburb killed at least 144 people, the deadliest in Russia in 20 years. A branch of Islamic State claimed responsibility, but Russian President Vladimir Putin, without citing evidence, has sought to blame Ukraine. FBI Director Christopher Wray. Photo: AFP US officials have been worried … Read more
France and Spain will step up security ahead of the Champions League quarter-finals in Madrid and Paris on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, top officials said, as Islamic State threatened drone attacks on Europe’s top club soccer tournament. British police said they were aware of reports of threats and had a robust policing plan in place ahead of Arsenal’s match against Bayern … Read more
Islamabad: The recent deadly attack on Chinese workers in Pakistan has shaken their confidence and some of them are planning to leave the country over security reasons, according to a security analyst. Muhammad Amir Rana in an article published in Dawn newspaper on Sunday wrote that the terrorist attack on the Chinese engineers’ vehicle on … Read more
Five armed gunmen opened fire and detonated explosives at people inside the a packed Crocus City Hall in Moscow on March 22. The attack has deeply hurt Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kremlin revealed. File Photo Moscow Concert Hall Attack: The deadly terrorist attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall which left over 130 people dead and … Read more
By Dasha Litvinova | Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that the gunmen who carried out the concert hall attack that killed over 130 people in a Moscow suburb last week were “radical Islamists.” Speaking in a meeting with government officials, Putin said the killings were carried out by extremists “whose ideology the … Read more
The attack on Crocus concert hall near Moscow was the worst act of terrorism carried out in Russia in more than 20 years. More than 130 people were killed after gunmen stormed the venue on Friday night. Islamic State quickly claimed responsibility for the attack and provided additional video footage of the massacre. On Sunday, … Read more
Three facts stand out as clear amid the lack of hard information about the perpetrators of Friday’s appalling terrorist attack on Russia, and all three shine a light on dangers inherent in the new multipolar world we now inhabit. The first is that, before the attack, Vladimir Putin dismissed a US warning that it was … Read more
The video, which lasts a minute and a half, shows several individuals with blurred faces and garbled voices, armed with assault rifles and knives. They appear to be the lobby of the Crocus City Hall concert venue in Krasnogorsk, northwest of the Russian capital. Russian rescuers work inside the Crocus City Hall on the western … Read more
Crocus City Hall in the Moscow region, the scene of a deadly shooting and fire claimed by Islamic State, is a plush concert venue where former US president Donald Trump once held a Miss Universe contest. It is a short walk from a Moscow Metro station and just next to Moscow city ring road, although … Read more
By Jon Gambrell and Bassem Mroue | Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Thursday for two suicide bombings targeting a commemoration for an Iranian general slain in a 2020 U.S. drone strike, the worst militant attack to strike Iran in decades as the wider Middle East remains on … Read more
