Synagogue Attacks

The armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility on Monday for a bomb blast near a synagogue in Tel Aviv that Israeli police and the Shin Bet intelligence agency described as a terrorist attack.

More than 15 people, including policemen and a priest, were killed and several others injured after unidentified gunmen opened fire at a synagogue, a church, and a police post in Russia's North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Sunday.

Gunmen attacked churches and synagogues in Russia's North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Sunday, killing at least eight police and national guard officers and a priest, officials said.

French police on Friday shot dead an armed man who was trying to set fire to a synagogue in the northern city of Rouen.

The US embassy in Russia warned that "extremists" had imminent plans for an attack in Moscow, hours after Russian security services said they had foiled a planned shooting at a synagogue by a cell from the Afghan arm of Islamic State.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday it prevented an attack on a synagogue in Moscow that was plotted by an Islamic State cell, Russian state news agencies reported.

Hamas operatives are not militants or freedom fighters, but terrorists, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said today in strong words of solidarity for Israel, which has launched a counterstrike in Gaza following a terror attack that killed hundreds.

A "lost tribe" of Israel in northeast India has been swept up in months of deadly ethnic violence, with at least one death, synagogues torched and hundreds forced to flee, members say.

A 13-year-old Palestinian boy shot and wounded a father and son in east Jerusalem on Saturday hours after a gunman killed seven outside a synagogue, in one of the deadliest such attacks in years.

British police on Thursday arrested two men over their alleged role in a hostage taking by a British man at a synagogue in Texas last weekend.

The UK's counter terrorism police said they detained two teenagers on Sunday evening in connection with the hostage-taking incident by a British national in a Texas synagogue over the weekend.

The attacker who killed two people in a shooting at a German synagogue live-streamed the assault on Twitch.

A gunman killed two people outside a synagogue in the eastern German city of Halle on Wednesday, apparently filming his attack on a head-mounted camera in a method that had chilling echoes of a far-right attack on two New Zealand mosques earlier this year.

On Wednesday in the east German city of Halle, the man before the camera was preparing to commit a violent assault against a synagogue that devolved into a random, blundering search for fresh targets.

An anti-Semitic attack that killed at least two people in the German city of Halle Wednesday was streamed live for 35 minutes, and eventually seen by some 2,200 people, the online platform Twitch said.

The armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility on Monday for a bomb blast near a synagogue in Tel Aviv that Israeli police and the Shin Bet intelligence agency described as a terrorist attack.

More than 15 people, including policemen and a priest, were killed and several others injured after unidentified gunmen opened fire at a synagogue, a church, and a police post in Russia's North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Sunday.

Gunmen attacked churches and synagogues in Russia's North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Sunday, killing at least eight police and national guard officers and a priest, officials said.

French police on Friday shot dead an armed man who was trying to set fire to a synagogue in the northern city of Rouen.

The US embassy in Russia warned that "extremists" had imminent plans for an attack in Moscow, hours after Russian security services said they had foiled a planned shooting at a synagogue by a cell from the Afghan arm of Islamic State.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday it prevented an attack on a synagogue in Moscow that was plotted by an Islamic State cell, Russian state news agencies reported.

Hamas operatives are not militants or freedom fighters, but terrorists, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said today in strong words of solidarity for Israel, which has launched a counterstrike in Gaza following a terror attack that killed hundreds.

A "lost tribe" of Israel in northeast India has been swept up in months of deadly ethnic violence, with at least one death, synagogues torched and hundreds forced to flee, members say.

A 13-year-old Palestinian boy shot and wounded a father and son in east Jerusalem on Saturday hours after a gunman killed seven outside a synagogue, in one of the deadliest such attacks in years.

British police on Thursday arrested two men over their alleged role in a hostage taking by a British man at a synagogue in Texas last weekend.

The UK's counter terrorism police said they detained two teenagers on Sunday evening in connection with the hostage-taking incident by a British national in a Texas synagogue over the weekend.

The attacker who killed two people in a shooting at a German synagogue live-streamed the assault on Twitch.

A gunman killed two people outside a synagogue in the eastern German city of Halle on Wednesday, apparently filming his attack on a head-mounted camera in a method that had chilling echoes of a far-right attack on two New Zealand mosques earlier this year.

On Wednesday in the east German city of Halle, the man before the camera was preparing to commit a violent assault against a synagogue that devolved into a random, blundering search for fresh targets.

An anti-Semitic attack that killed at least two people in the German city of Halle Wednesday was streamed live for 35 minutes, and eventually seen by some 2,200 people, the online platform Twitch said.