Homeland Security News

The House will move next week on an anti-terrorism package that will have a provision to stop terrorists from buying guns, a source who participated in a House GOP Conference call on Thursday morning tells NBC News.

The specifics of the legislation are unclear, however, the terrorism package will likely include measures to help prevent radicalization and recruitment of potential terrorists and a provision to prevent suspected terrorists from buying guns. The full House will also take up Pennsylvania Republican Rep.Tim Murphy's committee-passed bill which seeks to prevent gun violence by providing improved care for mental illness.

Republican leadership is looking to move preemptively to block House Democrats from doing another floor protest. House Speaker Paul Ryan said leadership is gathering all the facts, evaluating options and getting recommendations from the Sergeant-at-Arms and the parliamentarians.

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A police captain's son accused of plotting an attack on a college campus to support the Islamic State group was indicted Thursday on terrorism charges.

A federal grand jury indicted Alexander Ciccolo on one count each of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and attempting to use weapons of mass destruction. Those charges were added to a pending indictment charging Ciccolo with being a convicted person in possession of firearms and stabbing a nurse with a pen during a jail intake process.

Ciccolo was arrested last July in a plot to detonate homemade bombs similar to the pressure cooker bombs used in the deadly 2013 Boston Marathon attack. Twin bombs placed near the marathon finish line killed three people and injured more than 260 others.

Ciccolo's lawyer, David Hoose, declined to comment on the new charges Thursday.

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The three men who carried out Tuesday's deadly attack on an Istanbul airport were all from parts of the former USSR, Turkish sources say.  One is said to be from Russia's North Caucasus region and the others from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.

Turkey believes so-called Islamic State (IS) was behind the suicide gun and bomb attack that left 43 people dead and 230 injured at Ataturk airport.

Police detained at least 13 suspects in Istanbul and more in Izmir on Thursday.  More details of the victims have emerged, many of them airport workers.

One image on Turkish media purported to show the three men together at the airport moments before the attack, wearing dark jackets and carrying holdalls. Two are wearing caps, one is smiling.

Read more:  BBC News

Turkish police have detained 13 people, including three foreigners, in connection with the triple suicide bombing at Istanbul's main airport which killed 42 people, a Turkish official said on Thursday.

Police conducted simultaneous raids on 16 places in Istanbul, the official told Reuters.

Source:  Reuters

Suicide bombers have attacked an Afghan police convoy outside the capital Kabul, killing as many as 40 cadets and civilians, officials say.

Two bombs hit vehicles carrying graduates returning from a ceremony on the city's western outskirts.

Paghman District Governor Haji Mohammad Musa Khan told the BBC many more had been injured.

The bombing was claimed by the Taliban and follows an attack on a bus just over a week ago that killed 14 people.

The dead included Nepali security guards working for the Canadian embassy.

Source:  BBC News