Local Vet Reacts To Deteriorating Situation In Iraq
PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) – As Al-Qaeda renegades move through Iraq toward Baghdad, capturing towns along the way, the Iraqi government is appealing to the U.S. for help. There are reports that...
View ArticleAjamu Baraka Discusses American Involvement In Iraq
PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA)- With news of ISIS gaining momentum in Iraq, some are questioning the effectiveness of America’s involvement in the Middle East. Veteran human rights activist and...
View ArticleCol. Jeff McCausland On The Latest Developments In Iraq
PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) – CBS News Military Analyst and former Army Colonel Jeff McCausland joined The KDKA Morning News with Larry Richert for the latest concerning the situation in Iraq....
View ArticleMilitary Analyst McCausland Doesn’t Think ISIS Poses A Major Threat To U.S., Yet
BEIRUT (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA/AP) – The spokesman of the Islamic State militant group says his fighters are ready to face a U.S.-led military coalition and is calling on Muslims worldwide to kill...
View ArticleFormer Homeland Security Sec. Tom Ridge On Latest ISIS Threat
PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) – The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI on Monday sent out the strongest warning to date about threats the Islamic State poses to the United States. They...
View ArticleTop Ten Stories Of 2014
MALAYSIAN AIRLINES PLANE SHOT DOWN Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was show down over a pro-Russian territory in Ukraine in July during the height of the Russia-Ukraine unrest. All 283 passengers and 15...
View ArticlePirates: “Jihadi John” Wearing Team’s Hat In Photo “Absolutely Sickening”
LONDON (KDKA/AP) – Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday that Britain’s intelligence services do a good job and make “incredibly difficult judgments,” after revelations that the masked Islamic State...
View ArticleFrance Launches Air Strikes On Islamic State HQ In Syria, Hunts Fleeing...
PARIS (AP) – France launched “massive” air strikes on the Islamic State group’s de-facto capital in Syria Sunday night, destroying a jihadi training camp and a munitions dump in the city of Raqqa,...
View ArticleObama: Attacks ‘Terrible’ Setback In Islamic State Campaign
ANTALYA, Turkey (KDKA/AP) – President Barack Obama on Monday conceded that the Paris terror attacks were a “terrible and sickening setback” in the fight against the Islamic State, but forcefully...
View ArticlePro-ISIS Messages Painted On Youngstown State Rock
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (KDKA) – Officials at Youngstown State University along with police and the FBI are trying to figure out who painted pro-ISIS messages on a well-known rock. According to CBS affiliate...
View ArticlePolice: Muslim Taxi Driver Shot After Being Asked About ISIS
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A Muslim civil rights group is asking the Justice Department to investigate the shooting of a Pittsburgh taxi driver. The driver was shot Thanksgiving night in the Hazelwood section...
View ArticleSuspect Arrested, Charged In Shooting Of Cab Driver In Hazelwood
PITTSBURGH (KDKA/AP) — Investigators have taken a suspect into custody in the shooting of a cab driver who is Muslim in the city’s Hazelwood neighborhood in the early morning hours of Thanksgiving Day....
View ArticlePolice: Pennsylvania Teen Arrested For Trying To Help ISIS, May Have Planned...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (KDKA/AP) – A Pennsylvania 19-year-old has been arrested on charges he attempted to provide support to the Islamic State group. Jalil Ibn Ameer Aziz of Harrisburg is charged with two...
View ArticleHazelwood Man To Stand Trial For Allegedly Shooting, Injuring Cab Driver
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – A man accused of shooting a cab driver, who is Muslim, on Thanksgiving will stand trial. Cab driver Hakim Ghorbal left the courtroom Tuesday escorted by city police after his...
View ArticleKent State Professor Investigated For Possible Ties To ISIS
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – A Kent State University professor is at the center of an FBI investigation after being accused of helping ISIS. Authorities say he went as far as trying to recruit students for the...
View ArticleParis Attacks Fugitive Abdeslam Arrested In Brussels Raid
BRUSSELS (AP) – After an intense four-month manhunt, police on Friday captured the top fugitive in last year’s deadly Paris attacks in the same Brussels neighborhood where he grew up. Salah Abdeslam,...
View ArticleExplosions Rock Brussels Airport, Subway; At Least 34 Dead
BRUSSELS (KDKA/AP) – Islamic extremists struck Tuesday in the heart of Europe, killing at least 34 people and wounding scores of others in back-to-back bombings of the Brussels airport and subway that...
View ArticleSyrian Forces Recapture City From Islamic State
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) – Syrian government forces recaptured the ancient city of Palmyra on Sunday, scoring an important victory over Islamic State fighters who waged a 10-month reign of terror there and...
View ArticlePa. Senators Take Different Approaches To Tackle Domestic Terrorism
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — No surprise, both U.S. Sens. Bob Casey, a Democrat, and Pat Toomey, a Republican, condemned the violence in Orlando. “It’s absolutely appalling, and it’s devastating,” Toomey told...
View ArticleLocal Jewish Community Organizes Event Honoring Orlando Victims
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The tragedy is still unimaginable. The images still stunning. People across the country continue to come to grips with what happened at Pulse nightclub in Orlando. 49 people killed,...
View ArticlePolice Give All-Clear In Munich Shooting; Say Suspect Is Dead
MUNICH (AP) – An 18-year-old German-Iranian man opened fire in a crowded Munich shopping mall and a nearby McDonald’s Friday night, killing nine people and wounding 16 others before killing himself,...
View ArticleIslamic State Group Says Spokesman Killed In Syria
BEIRUT (AP) – The Islamic State group said Tuesday that its spokesman and senior commander has been killed while overseeing military operations in northern Syria, and threatened to avenge his death....
View ArticleFBI, Local Law Enforcement Urging Awareness After ISIS Holiday Threats
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Federal authorities are warning local law enforcement across the country Friday night about a threat by ISIS calling for attacks on churches and other holiday gathering sites. The...
View ArticlePentagon: U.S. Dropped Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb In Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Thursday struck an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan with “the mother of all bombs,” the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat...
View ArticleReport: Pittsburgh-Area Man Arrested In Virginia, Investigated For Possible...
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter STERLING, Va. (KDKA) — A man who recently moved from Pittsburgh to Virginia was arrested Friday for destroying evidence related to an FBI investigation into his...
View ArticleFormer Aspinwall Resident Goes To Court On Terrorism-Related Charges
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Sean Andrew Duncan, 21, is scheduled to appear in a Federal Court in Virginia on Tuesday after his arrest late last week at his home in Sterling,...
View ArticleFormer Aspinwall Resident Accused Of Obstructing Terror Investigation Remains...
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter ALEXANDRIA, Va. (KDKA/AP) – A Virginia man with Pittsburgh-area ties, accused of obstructing a terrorism investigation by destroying a thumb drive, will remain in...
View ArticleISIS Leader In Afghanistan Killed In Airstrike, US Says
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter (CNN) — The head of ISIS in Afghanistan, Abu Sayed Orakzai, also known as Sad Arhabi, and 10 other ISIS fighters were killed Saturday night in an airstrike in...
View ArticlePresident Trump: ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Is Dead
(CNN) — President Donald Trump declared Sunday morning that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was dead after a US military raid in northwest Syria over the weekend. “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead,” Trump...
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