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A witness called police at 15:34 to report a person in a police uniform holding a pistol in his hand, entering an unmarked vehicle, a Fiat Doblò. [64] Information—including the vehicle's licence plate number and description of the suspect—was written on a yellow note, and hand-delivered to the police operations central where it lay for 20 ...
The Beslan school siege, also referred to as the Beslan school hostage crisis or the Beslan massacre, [2] [3] [4] was an Islamic terrorist attack that started on 1 September 2004. It lasted three days, and involved the imprisonment of more than 1,100 people as hostages, including 777 children, [ 5 ] ending with the deaths of 334 people, 186 of ...
Osama bin Laden [a] (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi Arabian–born Islamist dissident and militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, Bin Laden participated in the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet Union , and supported the Bosnian mujahideen during the Yugoslav Wars .
Brenda Carter was convicted of second-degree murder two years later. [174] [175] June 19, 1991 Coffs Harbour, Australia 13-year-old student A student brought a rifle to Orara High School injuring 2 teachers and 1 student. The shooter was tackled to the ground by fellow students. [176] September 30, 1991
The formation of Antifaschistische Aktion in 1932 indicated a shift away from the Third Period policies, as fascism came to be recognised as a more serious threat (the two red flags on its logo symbolized Communists in unity with socialists [65]), leading up to the 1934 and 1935 adoption of a popular front policy of anti-fascist unity with non ...
Saudi Arabia, [d] officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), [e] is a country in West Asia.Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about 2,150,000 km 2 (830,000 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the largest in the Middle East, and the 12th-largest in the world. [15]
Islam is the third-largest religion in the United States (1.34%) after Christianity (67%) and Judaism (2.4%). [2] The 2020 United States Religion Census estimates that there are about 4,453,908 Muslim Americans of all ages living in the United States in 2020, making up 1.34% of the total U.S. population. [1]