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The FBI arrested an Idaho man on Saturday who allegedly planned to attack churches in the state and had pledged allegiance to ISIS, according to the Justice Department. Alexander Scott Mercurio, 18, planned to attack people at churches in Coeur d’Alene on Sunday with various weapons, including “explosives, knives, a machete, a pipe and ultimately firearms,”…

Retired Gen. Frank McKenzie, the former leader of CENTCOM, alerted on Sunday that ISIS online radicalization poses a threat for future terrorist attacks after more than 130 people were killed in a Moscow attack last week. Four gunmen killed 144 people in a concert hall in suburban Moscow last week, believed to have been instructed by ISIS-K, the…

The U.S. Department of State issued a strong statement denouncing the terrorist attack in Moscow on Friday, which resulted in the deaths of over 130 people. “The United States strongly condemns the deadly terrorist attack that occurred in Moscow yesterday,” the statement expressed. “We offer our sincerest sympathies to the families and loved ones of the victims and all those affected by this terrible crime…

President Vladimir Putin announced on Saturday during a national address that Russian authorities had apprehended the four individuals suspected of participating in the attack on a suburban Moscow concert hall, which resulted in the deaths of at least 133 people, and believe they were intending to go to Ukraine.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack on the Moscow concert hall Friday that left at least 40 people killed and over 100 civilians injured.  The group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement Friday evening. shared by SITE, an intelligence group.  Russia’s Health Ministry released a list of 145 people injured,…