Terrorism

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin withdrew a plea agreement reached on Wednesday between the Pentagon and three Guantanamo detainees accused of plotting the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.

Three Guantanamo detainees accused of plotting the September 11, 2001, terror attacks have reached plea agreements with the military, the Pentagon announced Wednesday.

A man who severely injured author Salman Rushdie in a frenzied knife attack in western New York was motivated by a Hezbollah leader’s endorsement of a fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death, prosecutors said Wednesday in announcing new terrorism charges.

Anjem Choudary — who previously pledged allegiance to ISIS, praised the 9/11 attackers, and called for the execution of the Pope — was convicted in British court Tuesday on terrorism charges following an investigation conducted by the NYPD and other international law enforcement.

Police are monitoring online threats by pro-Isis groups after a social media post with an image appearing to show the stadium where the Cricket World Cup will be played in June on Long Island. News 4’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

ISIS supporters shared an image on social media of the cricket stadium built at Long Island’s Eisenhower Park with drones flying above, urging violence at the June 9 game between India and Pakistan that is expected to draw a sellout crowd and a billion viewers worldwide. NBC New York’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

The International Cricket Council World Cup 2024 is next month on Long Island.

The Maine 20-year-old accused of trying to murder NYPD officers in a 2022 New Year’s Eve machete attack near Times Square was sentenced to nearly three decades in prison after pleading guilty to several terror-related charges.

The Maine 20-year-old accused of trying to murder NYPD officers in a 2022 New Year’s Eve machete attack near Times Square changed his plea on several terror-related counts to guilty Thursday. Chief investigative reporter Jonathan Dienst with the latest.

The FBI has arrested Karrem Nasr, 23, of New Jersey for allegedly attempting to provide material support to the African-based terrorist organization al Shabaab after they claim he became inspired to wage Jihad following the October 7 terrorist attacks.

FBI director Christopher Wray testified Tuesday that the Israel-Hamas war has raised terrorism threats against the U.S. “to a whole other level.”

The U.S. is working with the foreign partners to shut down the travel routes used by the smuggling network and to identify the people who used it to enter the country, the NSC said.

Plea agreements under consideration may mean that the suspected architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and his fellow defendants never face the death penalty.

For the first time, the NYPD has a woman overseeing intelligence and counterterrorism programs. From overseas terror threats to homegrown violent extremism, the NYPD continues to focus on varying threats, with an added push to use the intelligence division to help everyday crime concerns. Jonathan Dienst spoke one-on-one with Rebecca Weiner about how she plans to stop the next attack.

In a rare and shocking development, an accused foreign Islamic terrorist was found not guilty Friday by a jury in federal court after a trial on charges he conspired with Osama bin Laden to conduct a suicide bombing on Americans in Europe two decades ago, his lawyer said.

A Massachusetts teenager was arrested Thursday on suspicion of running a gift card-reselling scheme to raise money for the terrorist group ISIS, federal prosecutors announced.

A jury at a trial last year heard prosecutors portray Saab as a highly trained terrorist who scoped out landmarks in the U.S., France, Turkey and the Czech Republic.

The extremist who maniacally raced a truck along a popular New York City bike path, killing eight people and maiming 18 others in 2017 received the maximum sentence Wednesday — of 260 years total. Relatives of eight people killed in a Halloween terror attack on a New York City bike path in 2017, as well as those who were hurt, spoke at…