PARIS—France confirmed the suspected ringleader of last week’s Paris attacks was killed in a police raid Wednesday, and officials said he has been implicated in four of six foiled attacks in the country this year. The Paris prosecutor’s office said the bullet-riddled body of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian national of Moroccan descent, was found inside […]
The activist hacker network Anonymous said it is preparing to unleash waves of cyber attacks on the Islamic State group, following the attacks that killed 129 people last week in Paris. In an unverified video posted on YouTube, a spokesperson wearing the group’s signature Guy Fawkes mask said the loose-knit international group would use its […]
In a recording released and posted online on Wednesday, the Yemen branch of al-Qaida assumed responsibility for the attack on the Paris-based offices of Charlie Hebdo, saying, “As for the blessed Battle of Paris, we, the Organization of al-Qaida al Jihad in the Arabian Peninsula, claim responsibility for this operation as vengeance for the Messenger of […]
The prime suspects in the Charlie Hebdo attack earlier this week, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, died in a barrage of bullets after an eight hour standoff in the Paris suburb of Dammartin-en-Goelle on Friday according to French authorities. As the two brothers exited the warehouse northeast of Paris and opened fire with high-powered assault […]