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Gunmen attack gun shops and army unit in Aktobe (June 5, 2016)

On this day in 2016, terrorists linked to ISIS carried out several attacks in the northern Kazakh city on Aktobe killing 20 people in shops and a military base.

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Bombings in India (June 4, 2008)

Terrorists assume for themselves the right to target anyone and anything which upsets their religious and ethonationalist tenets.

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‘Toronto-18’ Terrorism Plot (June 2, 2006)

On this day in 2006, Canadian police arrested 18 people in what was a plot to detonate three fertiliser bombs around Toronto.

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Nightclub Bombing in Tel Aviv (June 1, 2001)

On this day in 2001, a suicide bomber claimed by 3 separate Palestinian terrorist groups detonated a device outside a Tel Aviv disco killing 21 people.

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Are Canada’s security intelligence and law enforcement agencies biased when it comes to terrorism?

Everyone is free to express their opinion on terrorism but only a former (or current) counter terrorism practitioner can weigh in on investigations.

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Church attack in Central African Republic (May 30, 2014)

Gunmen associated with the Muslim Seleka in Central African Republic massacred at least 11 people who were taking shelter in a church from street fighting.

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Failed NATO airstrike kills 14 civilians in Afghanistan (May 29, 2011)

On this day in 2011, a NATO airstrike aimed at Taliban terrorists struck two houses and killed 14 civilians, including women and children.

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Incel violence is not terrorism… at least not yet

It is simply too early to label incel violence ‘terrorism’ and we have other legal tools to deal with this hateful, misogynist phenomenon.

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25 dead in Maoist ambush in India (May 26, 2013)

On this day in 2013, Maoist Naxalite terrorists in India killed 27 members of the Congress Party in an ambush in the eastern part of the country.

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Manchester Arena Bombing (May 22, 2017)

An ISIS suicide bomber killed himself outside an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester in 2017, killing 22 people, many of them children.