Homeland Security News

Boko Haram, the Nigeria-based Islamist terror group, has pledged allegiance to ISIS, according to an audio message purported to be from Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau. In the audio, which...

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/boko-haram-purportedly-pledges-allegiance-to-isis/

Each day, the news is more and more sickening. We wake up and hear that the Islamic State has committed yet another atrocity. We come to work shaking our heads, nauseated to the core, carrying on...

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/terrorists-seeking-to-reach-a-deeper-place-than-fear/

A video released on Sunday by militants in Libya claiming loyalty to the Islamic State terror group purports to show the mass beheading of Coptic Christian hostages. The video, which appeared on ...

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/video-purports-to-show-isis-militants-beheading-christian-hostages/

A video published online by Islamic State (IS) militants claims to show Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh being burned alive. The video, which could not immediately be verified, showed a man stand...

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/jordan-pilot-hostage-moaz-al-kasasbeh-reportedly-burned-alive/

A Libyan security official says that gunmen have stormed on of the most exclusive hotels in Tripoli and have taken an unknown number of hostages after killing at least eight. Essam Al-Naas, a spo...

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/gunmen-kill-at-least-8-take-hostages-at-tripoli-hotel/

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating after a drone crashed on the White House grounds early Monday morning. The Secret Service locked down the White House shortly after 3 a.m. after an office...

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/secret-service-investigating-small-drone-on-white-house-grounds/

Two planes have been evacuated on arrival at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport due to what a spokesman called a “security concern.”A JetBlue flight from Long Beach, CA, and a regional Sky...

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/plane-from-phoenix-evacuated-on-arrival-at-seattle-tacoma-airport/

Two F-16 fighter jets were scrambled today to escort two airliners enroute to Hartsfeld-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta for a possible bomb threat, NORAD said. The fighters from McEntire...

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/f-16s-scrambled-to-escort-jets-after-bomb-threat/

he United States has halted some counter-terrorism operations against al Qaeda militants in Yemen following a takeover of the country by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, U.S. officials said on Friday. ...

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/u-s-suspends-some-counterterrorism-efforts-against-al-qaeda-in-yemen-officials/

2014 was a big year for people forgetting about guns in their luggage. In fact, according to information on contraband that the TSA just released in its year in review, the number of firearms con...

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/a-knife-in-an-enchilada-was-the-oddest-thing-the-tsa-seized-in-2014/

A 19-year-old suburban Denver woman who tried to go to Syria to help Islamic State militants was sentenced to four years in prison Friday, even as she tearfully told a judge that she never wanted...

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/denver-woman-who-tried-to-help-terrorists-receives-4-years/

In the wake of the terror attacks in Paris, France terror raids were carried out in Belgium and Greece to identify, locate and hunt down so-called “sleepers cells.” Journalists and politician...

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/sleeper-cells-the-immigration-component-of-the-threat/

Spanish National Police arrested four suspected jihadis Saturday in the country’s North African enclave of Ceuta who allegedly had formed a terror cell and were ready to carry out an attack, th...

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/spanish-police-arrest-4-suspected-members-of-a-jihadi-cell/

Police in a Mexican border city said Wednesday that a drone overloaded with illicit methamphetamine crashed into a supermarket parking lot. Tijuana police spokesman Jorge Morrua said authorities ...

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/drone-loaded-with-meth-crashes-near-us-mexico-border-crossing/

Britain is at ‘very significant risk’ from a terror attack by extremists inspired by ISIS jihadis, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond warned today. Speaking ahead of a counter-terror summit in ...

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/uk-warned-of-very-significant-risk-of-isis-inspired-terror-attack/

Throngs of mourners gathered in Mecca early Friday just hours after Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud died. He was 90. Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz was appointed as the new king...

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/saudi-arabias-reformer-king-abdullah-dies/

Drug smugglers are turning “trusted travelers” into unwitting mules by placing containers with powerful magnets under their cars in Mexico and then recovering the illegal cargo far from the v...

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/surprise-magnets-used-to-plant-drugs-under-cars-from-mexico/

Yemeni President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, his prime minister and entire government cabinet resigned en masse today, just 24 hours after Houthi rebels occupied the presidential compound in Sanaa. ...

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/how-al-qaedas-biggest-enemy-took-over-yemen/

His voice, his posture and his threats are menacingly familiar. The black-clad ISIS militant shown in a video demanding a $200 million ransom to spare the lives of two Japanese citizens looks and...

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/isis-japanese-hostage-video-raises-new-questions-about-jihadi-john/

The arrest of an Ohio man allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired attack on the U.S. Capitol sent shockwaves across the country last week. 20-year-old Christopher Lee Cornell is now facing charges f...

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/undercover-fbi-sting-nets-alleged-jihadist/