On January 15, 2012 a water tanker transporting its load hit a landmine probably laid by Al Shabaab terrorists killing three in Somalia.
On January 14, 2011 the Taliban, armed with assault rifles, broke into the home of a female police officer, killing her and four relatives.
On January 13, 2016 the TTP claimed responsibility for a suicide bomber who killed 14 near a polio clinic in Quetta, Pakistan.
Episode 121 – Borealis talks to Eric Caron, a 25-year veteran US Special Agent about his career fighting bad guys.
On this day in 2018, the body of a Mennonite farmer was discovered in a mass grave in the northern Paraguayan province of San Pedro.
On January 11, 2011 an off-duty policeman opened fire on an Egyptian train killing one and wounding four Coptic Christians.
On January 10, 2007 three bombs were detonated within hours of each other in the southern Philippines island of Mindinao, in all killing six people and wounding 27.
On January 9, 2015 an ISIS terrorist took hostages at a Jewish store in France, killing four before he in turn was killed by commandoes.
On January 8, 1971 Uruguayan Marxist Tupamaros terrorists kidnaped the UK Ambassador in Montevideo and held him hostage for 8 months.
There are national security and public safety threats: terrorism is most usually one of the latter, not the former.