Terrorism

explainer

The Boston Marathon bombing was a terrorist attack that occurred on April 15 2013 near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston Massachusetts. Two pressure cooker bombs...

crime-and-justice

On 13 November 2015, a coordinated terrorist attack in Paris included a mass shooting at the Bataclan concert venue during a rock performance, part of a series of strikes across...

security-events

The Boston Marathon attack refers to the bombings that occurred near the finish line on April 15, 2013, killing three people and injuring hundreds. In the hours and days that fo...

security-analysis

Terrorism in Mexico today refers mainly to armed groups that use violence against civilians and security forces to destabilize state authority, coerce populations, and capture t...

history

On April 19, 1995, a massive bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds. This verified explainer pr...

security-and-safety

This article explains how US authorities assess terrorism risks in Los Angeles, the main groups and motives to watch, and how threat patterns have evolved. The goal is to give r...

criminal-justice

On April 15, 2013, two pressure cooker bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring hundreds. In the immediate aftermath, law en...

Celebrity Profiles

On September 11, 2001, a series of coordinated suicide attacks by the terrorist group al-Qaeda fundamentally changed the United States and global security. Nineteen attackers hi...

history

The September 11 attacks, often referred to as 9/11, were a series of coordinated terrorist strikes in the United States on September 11, 2001, carried out by the extremist grou...

history

On September 11, 2001, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda became the defining event of early twenty-first-century America. Four commercial airplanes were hija...