All posts tagged "terrorism"

  • Pakistani parents escort their children outside a school attacked by the Taliban in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, killing and wounding scores, officials said, in the highest-profile militant attack to hit the troubled region in months. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
    Taliban assault on Pakistan school leaves 141 dead

    PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, killing at least 141 people, mostly children, before Pakistani officials declared a military operation to clear the school...

    • Posted December 16, 2014
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  • Sailboats pass below the 1 World Trade Center, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014, in New York. Next month will mark the 13th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
    U.S. won’t follow Britain to raise terror threat level

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House does not expect the U.S. to raise its terrorism threat warning level. That’s after British authorities raised their terror threat level. Now it is at severe, the country’s second highest level....

    • Posted August 29, 2014
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