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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - A Florida man is charged with providing material support to the Islamic State extremist group, including attempting to buy multiple weapons and scouting potential targets for an attack in the Tampa Bay area, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. A criminal complaint charges Muhammed Momtaz Al-Azhari, a 23-year-old U.S. citizen, with attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization. The charge carries a potential 20-year prison term. **SNIP** According to the affidavit, Al-Azhari scouted a number of targets in the Tampa Bay region, including beaches, parks and even the Tampa FBI field...

Dutch police say three people were stabbed near a shopping center in The Hague on Friday night. According to BBC, authorities are still searching for the Dutch police say three people were stabbed near a shopping center in The Hague on Friday night. According to BBC, authorities are still searching for the middle-aged male suspect. The condition of the suspect and the stabbing victims are unclear. Dutch police said in a tweet that "emergency services" were on the scene. The police official said that the suspect had a device strapped to his body, describing it as a "hoax explosive device."...

A knifeman is on the loose after three people were stabbed at a department store in the centre of a busy shopping district. Dutch media are reporting a major emergency services presence in The Hague, the Netherlands, and videos posted on social media show a cordon in place. This comes after two people were killed in a knife attack on London Bridge earlier today. Police spokeswoman Marije Kuiper said it was not clear if the stabbing was a terror incident.

Federal agents over the weekend arrested a Pinellas Park man described as having extremist jihadist beliefs who wanted to blow up a target in Tampa and create "terror" in victims' hearts. "I want to do something terrifying," he said, according to a federal complaint, "like one day, one night, something's going to happen. Then six hours later, something else." Sami Osmakac, 25, was taken into custody after an FBI sting operation in which he tried to buy explosives, at least 10 grenades, Uzis and an AK-47, authorities said. Osmakac's intended target shifted over the course of the investigation, which spanned...

IDF forces on Tuesday afternoon discovered a seven-kilogram ready-to-use explosive belt in the Palestinian village of Silat A-Dacher, northeast of Nablus near the settlement of Homesh. Security officials said two fugitives arrested in the village by soldiers from the Haruv Battalion disclosed the whereabouts of the belt while being questioned. The fugitives planned to launch an attack within the next few days against Israeli targets using the bomb belt, the officials said. The suicide-bomb belt was exploded in a controlled detonation by Border Police sappers. Meanwhile, in south Gaza, near Rafah, IDF soldiers blew up a bomb found by troops...