terror attacks

Armed police officers work at a block of flats off Basingstoke Road in Reading after a stabbing attack at Forbury Gardens park in the town center of Reading, England, June 20, 2020. (Steve Parsons/PA via AP)

January 11, 2021, 11:08 pm

Libyan man sentenced to life for triple deadly UK park stabbings

26-year-old Khairi Saadallah pleaded guilty to three counts of murder, but denied being motivated by an ideological cause or doing significant planning for attack

By AP

Muhammad Mruh Kabha, 40, from the Palestinian village of Tura al-Gharbiya, is suspected of murdering Esther Horgen of the Tal Menashe settlement on December 20, 2020. (Shin Bet)

January 4, 2021, 4:17 pm

Shin Bet: Esther Horgen’s killer scoped out area 6 weeks before attack

Security service names suspect as Muhammad Mruh Kabha, from nearby Palestinian village of Tura al-Gharbiya, says he sought to avenge prisoner who died of cancer in Israeli custody

By Judah Ari Gross and Aaron Boxerman

Special police forces enter a home in the Palestinian town of Tura to arrest a man suspected of murdering Israeli Esther Horgen (Israel Police)

December 28, 2020, 1:09 pm

Police footage shows arrest of Palestinian suspected in murder of Esther Horgen

36-year-old man from town near Jenin is alleged to have killed Israeli woman in forest last week; IDF has mapped out his home in preparation for potential demolition

By TOI staff

A person runs with an Israeli flag in the Reihan forest near Tal Menashe in the West Bank where Esther Horgen was found dead in suspected terror attack, Dec. 21, 2020. (Flash 90/Meir Vaknin)

December 25, 2020, 4:28 pm

Thousands march to honor Israeli woman murdered in suspected terror attack

Samaria Regional Council chairman calls on PM to announce new construction in Tal Menashe, the West Bank settlement where Esther Horgen lived

By TOI staff

IDF troops map out the home of a Palestinian man suspected in the murder of Esther Horgen, ahead of its potential demolition, in the West Bank village of Tura, near Jenin, December 24, 2020 (IDF video screenshot)

December 25, 2020, 10:07 am

IDF maps home of suspected killer of Esther Horgen for possible demolition

Troops survey suspect’s house near Jenin soon after his arrest; he has reportedly confessed and given details of Israeli woman’s murder

By TOI staff

A photo released by the Israel Defense Forces on December 24, 2020, shows soldiers in the West Bank detaining a suspect in the suspected murder of Israeli woman Esther Horgen. (Israel Defense Forces)

December 24, 2020, 3:46 pm

Palestinian arrested in suspected terrorist killing of Israeli mother of six

TV network says man confesses, gives details on attack; reports indicate he is a released security prisoner; security forces also detain several potential accomplices

By Aaron Boxerman

The funeral of Esther Horgen, killed in an apparent terror attack in the West Bank, December 22, 2020 (Screen grab/Ynet); Inset: Esther Horgen (Courtesy)

December 22, 2020, 1:21 pm

Mother-of-6 killed in apparent terror attack remembered for her ‘joy for life’

Family and friends bury Esther Horgen a day after her body was found in a West Bank forest when she didn’t return home from a run

By TOI staff

Esther Horgen, 52, who was found dead in the northern West Bank in a suspected terror attack on December 20, 2020. (Courtesy)

December 21, 2020, 5:56 pm

Husband of woman slain in apparent terror attack urges West Bank construction

Benjamin Horgen says success of family and entire Tal Menashe community is owed to his wife Esther, who was found dead in forest where she had gone for a run

By TOI staff

French policemen and forensic officers work on the scene of the knife attack in front of Notre Dame church, in Nice, France, October 29, 2020. An attacker armed with a knife killed three people at a church in the Mediterranean city of Nice, the third attack in two months in France. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

December 7, 2020, 10:34 pm

Suspect in Nice church attack faces terror murder charges

Police had struggled to question stabbing suspect, who was seriously injured following spree in which three killed

By AP

Passengers evacuating the Brussels Airport, in Zaventem, after a string of explosions rocked Brussels airport and a city metro station, March 22, 2016. (AFP Photo/Belga/Dirk Waem/Belgium OUT)

December 7, 2020, 3:48 pm

Massive pre-trial hearings begin in 2016 Brussels subway, airport terror attacks

Hundreds of plaintiffs, as well as suspects, judges and lawyers, to convene for 10 days at former NATO headquarters due to security and sanitary problems at courthouse

By AP

Illustrative: The 'Cardiocentro' of the Civico hospital in Lugano, Switzerland, July 11, 2004. (AP Photo/Keystone, Karl Mathis)

November 24, 2020, 8:55 pm

Swiss police probe possible terror motive after 2 hurt in supermarket attack

28-year-old woman arrested after attacking two other women, cutting one’s neck with a knife and attempting to choke the other

By AFP

People wait for a train in the foreground as members of a police forensics team take part in an investigation next to a Thalys train on the platform at Arras train station, northern France, August 22, 2015. (Virginia Mayo/AP)

November 16, 2020, 4:01 pm

Trial starts over foiled Paris train attack that inspired Clint Eastwood movie

2015 incident saw 4 US citizens, 2 of them off-duty soldiers, thwart heavily armed gunman; director on witness list

By Marie DHUMIERES

Illustrative: Police officers of Germany's Federal Police patrol a popular shopping street in Berlin, October 24, 2020. (STEFANIE LOOS / AFP)

November 13, 2020, 5:03 pm

Germany charges 11 with far-right plot to target Muslims, overthrow government

Officials allege group met multiple times in private locations to discuss plans, wanting to create conditions for civil war; all but 1 in custody since February arrest

By AP

A military police officer guards at the crime scene near a synagogue in Vienna, Austria, November 4, 2020. Several shots were fired shortly after 8 p.m. local time on November 2, in a lively street in the city center of Vienna. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

November 13, 2020, 3:17 pm

EU weighs tougher border controls, anti-extremism measures after terror attacks

On 5th anniversary of Paris attacks, European interior ministers meet virtually to deliberate steps to counter radical Islam on continent, including training imams

By Agencies

Iranian soldiers carrying away an injured colleague at the scene of an attack on a military parade that was marking the anniversary of the outbreak of its devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, September 22, 2018, in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz. (AFP/ ISNA / MORTEZA JABERIAN)

November 12, 2020, 4:23 pm

Iran arrests separatist leader accused of 2018 parade attack that killed 25

Iranian media claims Harakat Al-Nazal terror group, allegedly behind the shooting, is supported by Israeli and Saudi intelligence services

By AP