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Federal authorities arrested a Chicago man Tuesday night on suspicion that he planned to travel to Somalia and train with terrorist groups there in order to become a suicide bomber. Acording to a complaint filed...

A civil judge and court clerk were shot and killed in a central Brussels courtroom on Thursday by a man attending the morning's hearings. Police were searching for the shooter who fled the courtroom, but may have been injured...

Three judges were killed and three people were injured Tuesday in a Chinese courthouse by a security officer at a local bank. The shooter, Zhu Jun, was the head of security at a local Postal Savings Bank in Hunan...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday criticized the violent and repressive conditions in southern Somalia that have been implemented by the Islamist group al-Shabaab . HRW interviewed more than 70 victims and witnesses, concluding...

Danish prosecutors on Monday brought an additional charge of terrorism against the Somali man already charged with the attempted murders of Kurt Westergaard, illustrator of the controversial 2005 cartoon depicting Prophet Muhammad as a...

The US Justice Department (DOJ) on Monday unsealed charging documents against eight defendants for recruiting for and providing financial support to the Somali terrorist organization al-Shabaab . The defendants are being charged...

A Somali judge known for jailing suspected pirates , human traffickers, and Islamist insurgents was shot dead Wednesday while leaving a mosque in the Puntland city of Bossaso. Judge Mohamed Abdi Aware of the Puntland high court...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Thursday that human rights violations committed during recent Somalian conflicts may amount to war crimes . Pillay said that ongoing violence between Islamist rebels and the newly-formed...

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday condemned the violence perpetrated against civilians in Mogadishu, Somalia, during an uptick in fighting between government and militia forces over the weekend, as...

JURIST Guest Columnist Zeray Yihdego of Oxford Brookes University School of Social Sciences and Law says that the UN and the world's powers must act to help stabilize Somalia, too long plagued by clan infighting, lawlessness, regional conflict involving Ethiopia...