Homeland Security News

The grandson of controversial Israeli-American activist Meir Kahane will be freed from an Israeli prison June 1 after being detained for almost a year without charges, an Israeli court ruled Tuesday.

The Israel Security Agency declined to seek a detention extension for right-wing Jewish extremist Meir Ettinger, who was arrested in August 2015 as part of an investigation into the deadly firebombing of a Palestinian home. The blast, which killed a couple and their 18-month-old son, sparked outrage around the world.

Two people have since been charged in connection with the firebombing. Ettinger, 24, was never charged, but he was held on grounds that he represented a serious security risk. The security agency, also known as Shin Bet, accused him of leading a band of young people suspected in a string of hate crimes targeting Palestinians and Christians.

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Afghan Security Forces shot a suicide bomber before he managed to target the Ministry of Interior (MoI) compound in Kabul.

The suicide bomber reportedly was driving a car packed with explosives and was looking to detonate it inside the ministry compound, reports the Khaama Press.  The security personnel identified the suicide bomber as he reportedly breached several check points.

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The number of children Boko Haram has used as suicide bombers has increased ten fold in the past year to one in five bombings, the United Nations reported.

Despite a military offensive against the Islamist terrorist group in the Lake Chad Basin, Boko Haram gunmen are still attacking civilians and military targets.
 
The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported last week that 44 children were involved in suicide bombings in 2015. More than 57 percent were girls, according to the U.N. Children's Fund.

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Belgian authorities spotted Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam posing on Facebook with an ISIS flag three weeks before the November 13 massacre -  but failed to follow it up, it has been claimed.  Although the national terror threat centre was told about the photo in October, security officials failed to take a closer look, according to Belgian media.

The revelation is the latest example of failures by Belgian police in the months leading up to the attacks in the French capital on November 13 that killed 130 people. 

Read more: Daily Mail

Police say they have arrested four members of a banned militant group, including a regional commander, suspected in the killing last month of a university professor in northwestern Bangladesh.  English professor A.F.M. Rezaul Karim Siddique was hacked to death on April 23 on his way to work at a state-run university in the city of Rajshahi.

The attackers used sharp weapons and quickly fled the scene.

Rajshahi Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mohammed Shamsuddin said Tuesday that authorities have arrested four members of the Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh group.

Read more: ABC News