ISIL Supporters Threaten Twitter’s Jack Dorsey & Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A new video allegedly created by Islamic State supporters is going after Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey. The video, published Wednesday on the UK’s Mirror...
View ArticleUC Merced Terror Attacker Was Inspired By Islamic State, Acted Alone
MERCED (CBS SF) — An 18-year-old University of California, Merced student who stabbed four people with a hunting knife before he was killed by police on campus in November was inspired by the Islamic...
View ArticleCounterterrorism Experts Say California Attacks Show ISIS Expanding Reach Via...
FRESNO (CBS/AP) — Law enforcement officials believe the San Bernardino massacre and a stabbing attack on a California college campus were done by lone wolves inspired by the Islamic State group, and...
View ArticleGunman Called 911 During Nightclub Massacre To Pledge Allegiance to ISIS
ORLANDO Fla. (CBS/AP) — A law enforcement official confirmed to CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton that Orlando nightclub shooting suspect Omar Mateen called 911 and declared his...
View ArticlePro-ISIS Video Calls For Terrorist Attacks In San Francisco, Las Vegas
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Iconic, Bay Area images took center stage in a new pro-ISIS video. That video is calling for attacks on San Francisco and Las Vegas. The video surfaced yesterday and it...
View ArticleUC Berkeley Sophomore Killed In Bangladesh Terrorist Attack
BERKELEY (CBS/AP/BCN) — A 19-year-old student at the University of California at Berkeley was among the 20 people reportedly killed in an attack at a bakery Friday in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Tarishi Jain....
View ArticleIslamic State Attackers Take Hostages, Kill Priest Inside Church In France
SAINT-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, France (AP) — Two attackers slit the throat of an 85-year-old priest celebrating Mass in a French church, killing him and gravely injuring one of the few worshippers present...
View ArticleTwitter Suspends 235,000 More Accounts Linked To Terrorism
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Twitter announced that its efforts to thwart users threatening or promoting terrorism from using the service have led to 235,000 accounts being suspended. The San...
View ArticleISIS Opposition Gains Momentum On Twitter As Pro-ISIS Accounts Decline
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Using algorithms and network analysis tools, a new study found that opponents of ISIS are taking to Twitter to denounce the notorious terrorist group’s violent messages....
View ArticleGOP Congressman: Kaepernick’s Anthem Protest ‘Sympathetic To ISIS’
(CBS SF) — The refusal by San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick to stand for the national anthem before games is “activism that is sympathetic to ISIS,” according to a Republican congressman from Iowa....
View ArticleIslamic State Claims Suspect In Minnesota Stabbing Rampage Was ISIS ‘Soldier’
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (CBS/AP) — A man in a private security uniform stabbed nine people at a Minnesota shopping mall, reportedly mentioning Allah and asking at least one victim if they were Muslim before...
View ArticleAmal Clooney: “Don’t Let Islamic State Get Away With Genocide”
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney urged Iraq and the world’s nations on Thursday not to let the Islamic State extremist group “get away with genocide.” The wife of actor George...
View ArticleLondon Attacker Identified; Islamic State Group Claims Responsibility
LONDON (AP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Thursday for an attack by a man who plowed an SUV into pedestrians on one of London’s famous bridges and then stabbed a police officer to...
View ArticleUS Military: Errant Airstrike Kills 18 Allied Fighters In Syria
BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S. military says a misdirected airstrike this week killed 18 allied fighters battling the Islamic State group in northern Syria. U.S. Central Command said Thursday that coalition...
View ArticleU.S. Drops ‘Mother Of All Bombs’ On ISIS Target In Afghanistan
(CBS News) — The U.S. dropped a bomb with an explosive force equal to 11 tons of TNT on a cave complex used by the Afghanistan branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Thursday, the...
View ArticleReport: 36 ISIS Fighters, 1 Commander Killed In ‘Mother Of All Bombs’ U.S Attack
(CBS News) — The U.S. military is defending its use of the biggest conventional bomb ever deployed on the battlefield to take out a cave complex in an area where most of the ISIS fighters in...
View ArticleManchester Police Name Concert Bomber; Children Among 22 Dead
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Investigators hunted Tuesday for possible accomplices of the suicide bomber who attacked an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, killing 22 people and sparking a stampede of...
View ArticleDuterte Declares Martial Law In Southern Philippines
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s spokesman says he has declared martial rule in the country’s south for 60 days and will cut short a trip to Moscow and return home to...
View ArticlePentagon: US Shoots Down Syrian Aircraft For First Time
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military on Sunday shot down a Syrian Air Force fighter jet that bombed local forces aligned with the Americans in the fight against Islamic State militants, an action that...
View ArticleFBI Arrests Hawaii-Based Soldier On Terror Charges
HONOLULU (AP) — A U.S. official says that an active duty Army soldier has been arrested by the FBI in Hawaii on terrorism charges. The official says that the solder was arrested because of connections...
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