Tags: International Terrorism

The terror attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012, was "likely preventable" based on known security shortfalls and prior warnings that the security situation there was deteriorating, the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded in a report released on Wednesday,

The trial began Wednesday of four men charged in connection with the deadly assault and three-day siege at Kenya's Westgate mall in September, in which Somalia's Al-Qaeda linked al Shabaab militants killed 67 people. The men on trial are not accused of actually carrying out the attack, but for serving as accomplices to the terrorists.

At least 14 people were killed in a suicide bombing on a trolleybus in the Volgograd, Russia, the second blast in as many days in the city. 17 people died in another suicide bombing attack at the central station in the city on Sunday